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• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #2: How Books Are Made
  In this 'ere country, Opera gets a stonking great subsidy from the public purse; football (soccer) doesn't. They have roughly equal audiences. There's no obvious rhyme nor reason to it (other than the nob's pursuits getting the money and the proles being out in the cold)....
• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #2: How Books Are Made
  Curt: Sorry, I get a lot of drive-by libertarians passing through here. It tends to ... sensitize me ... to certain uses of language....
• cepetit.myopenid.com commented on CMAP #2: How Books Are Made
  Regarding Makers: The "free on the web" version hasn't gotten the proofreading attention that (I hope) the printed version will, so that just rolls back into the multistage model Our Gracious Host provided. More importantly, though, keep in mind that Cory Doctorow isn't selling copies of his work to the same extent that he is consciously building brand identity for himself. In his view, those free electronic copies act as advertising for himself and for his works. And that's a perfectly valid view... from an individual, informed author engaging in strategic planning. It's not a valid view for:an overenthusiastic fan,...
• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #2: How Books Are Made
  I think I can say here that, having discussed this with Cory in more detail than I care to go into in, public, Cory earns more from his writing than I do. Obviously this is a unidimensional data point -- as noted, we can't compare with a "control" Cory -- but it's fair to say that of the two high profile SF authors who emerged around the same time, the one who is giving stuff away for free is earning more than the one who isn't....
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on CMAP #2: How Books Are Made
  I'm completely confuddled by that, since I don't think of Cory as a fiction writer. Heck, most of the time, I'd be hard-pressed to say what he actually does. I think this means I'm pretty out of touch with things, more than anything else....