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Originally Posted by Lee Fyock
While I agree, people could also say that you're not really signing the ebook either.  It's a grey area that I don't feel too strongly about. It's making you the author happy, and your readers happy, and that's what counts... in my book, heh heh. |
I can't really argue with that, from a technical perspective. The only distinction I am drawing is that Tam Thompson (apparently, and if anyone knows otherwise, please speak up!) made no effort to place her signatures
within the eBook files.
The dedications that I - and previously Tad Williams, as Lee kindly pointed out - signed are a permanent part of our respective eBooks, and unlike any artifact or memento that might accompany an eBook, those dedications are unlikely to be lost or misplaced.
In either case though, the approach we took for this eBook Signing Event seems to have made everyone happy... and that was the goal, all along.
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Originally Posted by Lee Fyock
My recollection is that it was either suggested by our friends at DAW, or that they were the ones who thought it was very cool, so we put the feature in mainly for them. I know Julie Czerneda used it on occasion, and I vaguely recall hearing of other people using it, but it certainly never reached the "wildfire" stage.
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At the time, eBooks (and eReader devices) were in a respectable infancy. We've come a long way.
- M.D.B.