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• errolwi commented on PSA: I Have a New Book!
  I second the request for the five rules follow-up, with a little more distance from the process than http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=23596 Also, a discovery from the archives http://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/blog-old/2005/02/18/#dresden-1 I've got an eerie sense that [The Dresden Dolls] is a band on the way up, and seeing them now is like getting to see the Eurythmics in 1981 or Nirvana in 1989....
• davharris commented on PSA: I Have a New Book!
  Hm. Amazon (UK) says it will be published on 4 April, Amazon US says March 16, thebookdepository says 1 March (but not in stock) - I moved my order to bookdepository after the Amazon spat... it's all very confusing....
• Charlie Stross commented on PSA: I Have a New Book!
  How come a book store like BookDepository can buy book from a UK publisher and distribute them worldwide? They're not distributing them wholesale -- it's retail sale. You, the customer, are giving them money; you're not a reseller, you're the end of the chain. And they're the last trader in the chain, and they're in the licensed territory. Where the book ends up doesn't count; it's where it's sold that counts, for rights purposes. ... Although now I notice it, "The Trade of Queens" is an American edition, so they shouldn't be doing that. (Don't worry though, I'm not going...
• errolwi commented on PSA: I Have a New Book!
  And as a follow-up would it not be possible for them to do the same with e-books? When I've asked this question around the net, I've got a response along the lines of "My understanding is that an ebook sale is considered to have taken place at the purchaser's computer, as opposed to the seller's warehouse in the case of a paper sale." I'd love to hear confirmation from someone closer to the perceived law on the issue....
• Charlie Stross commented on PSA: I Have a New Book!
  have TOR (UK) stopped printing it? Quite possibly -- I have no information on the subject, but the editor at Macmillan who bought them in from Tor in the US retired nearly two years ago, and there's been precious little communication from that quarter since....