re: "I run one of the online bookstores that is selling the eBook. This was suppossed to be a fair method of distribution, with each bookstore participating in Simon & Schusters promotion having an equal opportunity to sell the book. However, the moneyed players(Amazon, Barnes & Noble, et. al.) have been allowed to give the book away, effectively shutting us little guys out of the promotion."
I read with interest this little swipe at the "BIG BOYS."
This particular "little guy" just wrote to me to tell me I am not a worthy "author" for even reading at his bookstore...
Whats a independent author/publisher to do these days to get attention in any shape or form? I guess I'll just have to let my little "lack of diversity" speak for itself....
Well, speaking of ebooks! Fatbrain.com the mighty #2 in Silicon Valley has just released a new site. Its called Mightywords.com and is affilliated with the eMatter I brought to the attention of/. readers a few days past. They are offering free hosting until March 31st (not that far away) and are offering a grand prize of $15,000 (whew!) for the best 2 written pieces on offer at the time of the deadline(?). Not sure when that is so go to the Fatbrain.com site and check out Mightywords.com. Anything to keep the e-book debate alive! Actually they consider themselves to be the leading (truely) "professional" digital online bookstore. Their article which I received in this mornings batch of email states: " Greetings, eMatter authors and publishers! The digital publishing craze that's surrounding our eMatter program is taking off!" And they continue to boast: "To fuel the ongoing debate surrounding the written word's place in society and kick off our publishing revolution, we're featuring pieces by luminaries ranging from Pete Hamill to Jonathan Kellerman, from Newt Gingrich to Coretta Scott King, on one of the most revolutionary documents ever written: the Bill of Rights. Anyone can download, print, and read these American Perspectives free of charge at Mightywords.com
eMatter on Fatbrain.com have not been slow either in their quest for furthering the work of citizens of the mighty pen.
In fact when they began their "digital" universe (last October I believe) they openly supported the ebook revolution. See: http://www.fatbrain.com/ematter/home.html
Regarding the claim that Turin saved England from the enemy singlehandedly, or just about, is a bit suspect as a claim. In The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower (1984) the history of our planetary disintergration is followed assiduously in the continuing use of Munitions in particular the "bomb" and other maniac uses of our natural resources. The thrust of what I wish to point out is that Freeman Dyson (the Physicist who is the subject of the above mentioned book) also claims to have been (at least he says he did) soley responsible for creating the firestorms which annihilated a lot of German cities (Dresden etc.)and that the only difference between his actions and that of other perpetrators of WWII, especially Eichmann and other war-criminals tried at the postwar tribunals in Germany, was his being on the winning side. I say this because there is a certain perspective that creates a context and I feel that the responsibility for saving England was not only Turin's decyphering machines. He did contribute though significantly. The book by the way is a great read and worth sifting through for its intelligent appraisal of Black Holes and the building of three man canoes. Very balanced and very thought provoking (if I might say so). Also some other significant writing on complex moral issues, such as the non-indispensible characteristics of any one single human being in the past or (dare I say it) the future. Kenneth Brower is a great story teller too.
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Never mind the Chinese. What about the AmericanGovernment
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Here's another "uglier" horror link:
Wilde Publishing
distribution, with each bookstore participating in Simon & Schusters promotion having an equal opportunity
to sell the book. However, the moneyed players(Amazon, Barnes & Noble, et. al.) have been allowed to
give the book away, effectively shutting us little guys out of the promotion."
I read with interest this little swipe at the "BIG BOYS."
This particular "little guy" just wrote to me to tell me I am not a worthy "author" for even reading at his bookstore...
Whats a independent author/publisher to do these days to get attention in any shape or form? I guess I'll just have to let my little "lack of diversity" speak for itself....
Wilde Publishing
Wilde Publishing
eMatter is definitely on the up and up.
See my e-site:
WILDE PUBLISHING
WILDE PUBLISHING
TRY FATBRAIN.COM'S eMATTER
WILDE PUBLISHING
There is. Its called a e-BOOK
Didn't they say the same thing about the Bible?
Read Fatbrain eMatter at: http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.as
Actually my own eMatter is doing rather well... http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp ?theisbn=EB00002427 Stephen King, eat my sh.....!
In fact when they began their "digital" universe (last October I believe) they openly supported the ebook revolution. See: http://www.fatbrain.com/ematter/home.html
Regarding the claim that Turin saved England from the enemy singlehandedly, or just about, is a bit suspect as a claim. In The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower (1984) the history of our planetary disintergration is followed assiduously in the continuing use of Munitions in particular the "bomb" and other maniac uses of our natural resources. The thrust of what I wish to point out is that Freeman Dyson (the Physicist who is the subject of the above mentioned book) also claims to have been (at least he says he did) soley responsible for creating the firestorms which annihilated a lot of German cities (Dresden etc.)and that the only difference between his actions and that of other perpetrators of WWII, especially Eichmann and other war-criminals tried at the postwar tribunals in Germany, was his being on the winning side. I say this because there is a certain perspective that creates a context and I feel that the responsibility for saving England was not only Turin's decyphering machines. He did contribute though significantly. The book by the way is a great read and worth sifting through for its intelligent appraisal of Black Holes and the building of three man canoes. Very balanced and very thought provoking (if I might say so). Also some other significant writing on complex moral issues, such as the non-indispensible characteristics of any one single human being in the past or (dare I say it) the future. Kenneth Brower is a great story teller too.