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Commented on PSA: New Book Deal
Sequel to Atlas Shrugged? You could call it "Telemacchus Sneezed" with a nod to R.A.Wilson...
Commented on Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight
Just another data point in the continuing saga of re-imagining the broken book industry. I feel a need for a detailed examination of every part of the process from original thought to the act of reading in the same style...
Commented on The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend)
As a consumer of SciFi and especially 80s-90s cyberpunk the current system of book publishing seems hopelessly broken. Why can't I buy a nice new hardback copy of Brunner - The Sheep look up, Sterling - Islands in the Net,...

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Charlie Stross commented on PSA: New Book Deal
David: Perhaps something a little more subtle/believable next year (say, Star Wars or Warhammer tie-ins)? I've done Warhammer tie-ins. For real. No kidding....
Charlie Stross commented on PSA: New Book Deal
Throwmearope: Everybody thinks writing romance is easy, except romance writers, of course. For a moment, though, I thought the world as I know it was gone. I can certainly believe romance is a lot harder than it looks to the uninitiated. Crime/police procedural certainly is, as I found out when I nearly broke my teeth on "Halting State" (and am wearing them down to the jawline on "Rule 34"). Similarly, writing Sparkly Unicorns™ properly would, I think, be rather challenging. Especially as I have a couple of decade's of experience at the New Space Opera and sod-all -- either as...
velochicdunord commented on PSA: New Book Deal
Good April Fool's joke. I twigged in the middle of paragraph 3. :) However (ahem), if you were to write such things, I personally want Good Unicorns Gone Bad(TM) who take their beloved mistresses with them in a twisted cyberpunk world....
Charlie Stross commented on PSA: New Book Deal
Derek, your estimates of my sales are wildly optimistic. Your estimates of my online sales are worse than optimistic. If I thought I could sell 100,000 copies of anything at $5 a pop of course I'd do it! (For that matter, I'd love to sell 20,000 hardcovers and 80,000 paperbacks -- if I did that, I'd have "NY Times Bestseller" splashed all over my book covers.) But 100,000 online sales of any ebook would be about two orders of magnitude more than the current headline figure for a #1 bestseller on the Kindle platform (the biggest single ebook storefront system)....
Charlie Stross commented on PSA: New Book Deal
Derek, I did a series of posts exhaustively anatomizing this stuff -- tagged CMAP, Common Misconceptions About Publishing. They've dropped off the front page (I did them in late January through March) and I really need to collect them and stick a link to them in the sidebar ... when I have time....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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