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#1 2008-03-18 03:53:55
- Black Rose
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Authors Unite!
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#2 2008-03-18 06:32:29
- Khellendros
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Re: Authors Unite!
I cry for the future of America. Not that I had any illusion that we read enough as a country.
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#3 2008-03-18 16:33:12
- CSquared
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Re: Authors Unite!
I'm sorry, but this really amuses me. Novellists do not have a rapid release schedule. It's not like screenwriters, who, if they aren't writing, completely stall the industry. If a novellist doesn't write, then their book doesn't get written. That's it. There are always more who'll be happy to take over if necessary.
What on Earth made them think they held the power to have a strike? O_o
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#4 2008-03-18 23:42:16
- Storymaster69
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Re: Authors Unite!
CSquared wrote:
I'm sorry, but this really amuses me. Novellists do not have a rapid release schedule. It's not like screenwriters, who, if they aren't writing, completely stall the industry. If a novellist doesn't write, then their book doesn't get written. That's it. There are always more who'll be happy to take over if necessary.
What on Earth made them think they held the power to have a strike? O_o
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#5 2008-03-19 00:45:49
- unknown1000u2
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Re: Authors Unite!
Maybe it has made no difference because we've taken up the slack? Everyone is reading on Wolfpub now? Well, it COULD happen!
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#6 2008-03-19 01:07:03
- Black Rose
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Re: Authors Unite!
The Onion as a website only publishes fake news. Hence people writing as Richard Bachman (which I believe is/was a pen name-or maybe the real name-of Stephen King), quite a few of the novelists stopping in the middle of their first novel (so they're totally unknown and not actually professional novelists as of yet)...etc.
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#7 2008-03-20 02:22:18
- Neitherspace
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Re: Authors Unite!
newspapers are hemorrhaging money daily and are too stubborn to change the same could be said of the book i think devices like ebook readers w net access for news feeds are going to be the next big thing
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#8 2008-03-24 05:59:00
- AceMcCloud
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Re: Authors Unite!
Neitherspace wrote:
newspapers are hemorrhaging money daily and are too stubborn to change the same could be said of the book i think devices like ebook readers w net access for news feeds are going to be the next big thing
Well, as an ebook device owner, I don't even remotely miss news feeds - I like novels. I've read exactly ONE printed book in the last 4 months and something like 2-3 dozen ebooks in that time.
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