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• Charlie Stross commented on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait
  fzort: I hear you, but I'd like to just note that the US cover of "Saturn's Children" was none of my doing. All I deliver is the stuff between the covers -- control over the book's cover, the title, the blurb on it, even in extreme cases the author's name -- lies with the publisher....
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait
  even in extreme cases the author's name Wozzat? Can you explain that one a bit?...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait
  sales are too low Okay, I guess I knew about that one -- Robin Hobb / Megan Lindholm was the one I knew of....
• Charlie Stross commented on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait
  Art, there's a lot of ill-will all round; you haven't been seeing the moderation policy violations that my scheming minions have been censoring (for lo, being really rude will get your comments censored around here: I am not the US government and I am under no obligation to observe your first amendment rights, which, in any case, Do Not Exist Here In The UK). It gets a bit wearing, after a while, being told you're a greedy, unimaginative, grasping hack....
• Charlie Stross commented on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait
  Art: I hear where you're coming from. Trouble is, we don't have different terms for "free(as in beer)tard" and "free(as in speech)tard(or rather, ideologue)". The latter I've got some respect for, although I disagree with the position somewhat: the former are ... tards. And they're the ones who're saying "ditch your parasitic publisher middle-men and sell to us! We'll pay your royalty rates!" -- which can be translated as "we don't care about the quality provided by editing; we just want to pay a tenth as much". Do I need to add that I fear, hate, loathe, and refuse to...