Comments on: Piracy

By: Frank Vevle

Frank Vevle — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:15:45 +0000

I believe the fight against e-book piracy is fight that publishers are bound to loose and authors will gain on ( I do think Gutenberg is to blame for all of this) For some time know I have been reading authors that have been rejected or don’t have the nerve to contact publishing house and to my surprise (trying to be ironic) a lot of these novels are great. These are good stories that would never been read if it weren’t for e- books and the ease in distributing them.
Perhaps they will not get rich or give up their day job, but they will still be able to reach an audience.
And that’s the main drive for a author …or

By: Mark C Newton

Mark C Newton — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:02:20 +0000

Good points there, Simon.

“And there have been quite enough tired, formulaic and disposable books written and published that were entirely the authors own idea to suggest that, in fact, neither system is in anyway foolproof.”

True!

By: simon

simon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:57:09 +0000

Mark, Re commissioned fiction:

As I said on Gav’s blog and (hey isn’t cut and paste a wonderful thing) can now repeat here:

Depends on the publisher. Depends on the idea. Depends on the brief. Depends on the author.

Open-minded enough publisher, good enough idea, open enough brief, enthusiastic and talented enough author there’s no reason why this couldn’t work.

And indeed it has worked. The author has to take the idea and run with it, make it their own – that’s where the essential creative spark comes from.

And there have been quite enough tired, formulaic and disposable books written and published that were entirely the authors own idea to suggest that, in fact, neither system is in anyway foolproof.

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