If I am going to be a writer, earning a living in the era of digital text, I need to understand where the opportunities are. They won't disappear, they'll just be different, and need to be recognised. In the last days of Vaudeville Theatre, they sued Marconi because radio was killing Vaudeville, where you had to pay to go into a relatively small room to listen to music and voice. But it didn't kill music, the outcome was a thousand times more music, making a thousand times more money, reaching a thousand times more people. But in the short term, there was panic. If digital text will result in hundreds more authors, with hundreds more novels, I need to be in the middle of eBooks. I need to be heavily engaged. All those people downloading my text is good news.
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There are people already sharing eBooks out there,.. And they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that. Tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. It can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.
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.. Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page.
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It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
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Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
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The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.
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Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.
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All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.
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What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!
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How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?
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To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.
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Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?
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Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?
If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.
The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.
The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.
Be the winner in your life!
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Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?
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Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.
My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.
We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the new book. The universal medium, like the universal library, is a dream that does more harm than good.
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