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• Commented on The coming storm
  Here in Taiwan, there's a tendency not to take any risk of invasion by China remotely seriously. Out walking with my dog the other week, my phone started making a BRAAAPP BRAAAPP noise and I saw an onscreen government alert,...
• Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
  For the sake of clarity, if you buy a DRM-free ebook from Amazon, you can convert it to any other format using software called Calibre, including ePub. If a book isn't available drm-free, the resources are out there if you...
• Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
  294: "I don't consider the media I bought on iTunes to be really mine until I have the files stored outside the iTunes ecosystem, in a format that will allow me to view them outside the ecosystem." Personally, I rip...
• Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
  290: "Is that ebook available for purchase? The link on your site is to the Amazon "short term rental with DRM" edition, which I'm not interested in at any price." Uh, if you mean Kindle Unlimited, it's not part of...
• Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
  Hi Charlie, sorry if my original post came across as too abrupt, so here’s my argument reframed in a way I hope is more appropriate. “If you want to make money, you need to publish rapidly and you need to...
• Commented on That sinking feeling
  I must admit reading this is making me think I need to take action in regards to my own financial affairs, Charlie, and speaking here as a British citizen who is also a working writer with a number of books...
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  I just finished Francis Spufford's Backroom Boys, which has been sitting on my Kindle for a couple of years. Really enjoyable look at the lives of engineers and scientists and the shenanigans they have to engage in, in order to...
• Commented on Excuses, excuses
  "Martin's Law". I like that. Also applies nicely to DC/Marvel 'let's kill everyone in the multiverse' publishing strategies....
• Commented on Clickbait spasm: 14 gizmos I used in 2015
  I got a Roost stand for my Macbook that's turned out to be pretty useful (http://www.therooststand.com). Keeps the desk a little more clear, elevates my laptop to eye-height, and leaves room for a bluetooth keyboard (since I managed to decimate...
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  By way of making a little extra money when I'm not writing books, I sometimes read and critique books by unpublished novelists by way of explaining to them what they're doing wrong or right. In almost every case that I've...
• Commented on Things I would make if I had a 3D printer ...
  I know very little indeed about 3D printers, but as someone who likes to go cycling a lot, I'd be surprised if cyclists weren't already all over the technology like a rash. Even given the limitations imposed in the post,...