tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930683319071532737.post2408230126967081046..comments2023-12-25T12:36:39.860-08:00Comments on The Clue Meter: Reading, ReadDranghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08082177597135236652noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930683319071532737.post-37989022085854299942012-07-11T19:04:46.401-07:002012-07-11T19:04:46.401-07:00Drang, check your gmail account.Drang, check your gmail account.Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02453688303224577509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930683319071532737.post-45988813566054097812012-07-11T18:55:59.965-07:002012-07-11T18:55:59.965-07:00Williamson: Heavy on the mil SF that Baen Books li...Williamson: Heavy on the mil SF that Baen Books likes.Carl-Bearhttp://carlbussjaeger.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930683319071532737.post-42429330858603166762012-07-11T17:28:23.077-07:002012-07-11T17:28:23.077-07:00Bear
Thanks for the clarification re: The Anarchis...Bear<br />Thanks for the clarification re: <i>The Anarchists/The Anarchist Belt</i>. Guess I have another purchase to make... <br />I guess that senior editor at Baen who is said to be a Trotsyite may be having an effect. Still, Mike Williamson can hardly be said to be cranking out statist SF.Dranghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082177597135236652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930683319071532737.post-85992366544383187372012-07-11T16:35:28.332-07:002012-07-11T16:35:28.332-07:00I confess to being totally out of the eBook moveme...I confess to being totally out of the eBook movement - funny since I helped design them... I guess its books in general, I read magazines now.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13460199597231661863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930683319071532737.post-24378532996081685182012-07-11T08:58:32.100-07:002012-07-11T08:58:32.100-07:00Thanks for the kind words. I'd like to clarify...Thanks for the kind words. I'd like to clarify a few points.<br /><br /><i>The Anarchy Belt</i> is <b>not</b> aka <i>The Anarchists</i>. The NSP-released <i>The Anarchists</i> was something they put together from a limited number of my short stories they found on the Internet, and was -- to put it mildly -- poorly edited. <i>The Anarchy Belt</i> has nearly twice as many stories, places the <i>Net Assets</i>-related tales in proper chronological sequence, includes background comments, and is much better edited (story titles aren't misspelled, for one thing). The crappy, abbreviated <i>TA</i>, which NSP is <i>still</i> selling as an ebook via Smashwords (DMCA takedowns? Ha!), is also three times the price of the authorized-and-more-complete <i>TAB</i>. You can also buy an similarly over-priced NSP version of <i>NA</i> from them.<br /><br />Near Space Press not only published and sold <i>Net Assets</i> and <i>The Anarchists</i> without paying me, they even managed to stiff me for the federal taxes on the income they kept to themselves (thanks to Amazon). Additionally, they pirated (definitely in this case: I didn't approve it; I only learned of it by accident) my original cover art from <i>Net Assets</i> and sold prints on DeviantArt; I received no compensation whatsoever. last time I looked, they were still selling them. At least I haven't gotten the tax bill on <i>that</i>. Yet.<br /><br />Regarding Amazon: In fact, they wouldn't allow <i>me</i> to pull the books. Subsequently, Amazon themselves delisted all my ebooks, and I had to request that they go ahead and kill the POD paperbacks (apparently they figured I only lacked the rights to my ebook editions, but retained the print rights; that's only a guess because they would tell me).<br /><br />Baen: I think my books would have been a good match for Baen at one time. But when I could still afford to buy books, I noticed that more and more of what they offered began to fall into the general "big government/military/secret gov agencies will safe the day" class. My work tends to view gov as a problem to be countered.<br /><br />PDFs: Except for cases in which a document is meant to be physcially <i>printed</i> on a wide variety of platforms, I also hate PDF. It was never meant for e-distribution/viewing. But that's what most readers ask for, so I did the conversion. Considering that I've earned roughly $900 total over 15+ years for <i>all</i> my fiction, I didn't feel much incentive to spend days per book reformatting.<br /><br />Carl "Bear" Bussjaeger<br />Become a Patron of the Arts:<br />http://www.indiegogo.com/BearsPrints?a=775991<br /><br />Author: Net Assets, Bargaining Position,<br />The Anarchy Belt, and more<br />http://www.bussjaeger.org/<br />http://carlbussjaeger.blogspot.com/Carl "Bear" Bussjaegerhttp://carlbussjaeger.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930683319071532737.post-73080913521512756202012-07-10T19:08:15.006-07:002012-07-10T19:08:15.006-07:00Oooh, more books shiny!Oooh, more books shiny!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391535113209714025noreply@blogger.com