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Originally Posted by JeremyR
Sort of interesting. Apparently he first tested the waters by putting his back catalog up on Amazon and B&N via their self-publishing programs (helped by using pirate scanned copies). But now he's going to try putting out a semi-new novel that way.
Okay, to be honest, he's not the biggest author around, but I certainly have heard of him, he's probably most famous for writing an episode of the original Star Trek ("The Doomsday Machine").
http://normanspinradatlarge.blogspot...ks-is-now.html
Anyway, interesting contrast between him and Charlie Stross, (whose blog is where I heard about this first). Some of Stross's work isn't available (including a gap in a series), so someone suggested why not simply have his publisher post the pirate copies. But he didn't think much of that idea, then someone pointed out Mr. Spinrad did just that. And I guess worked out well enough for Mr. Spinrad to try it with this book... |
Interesting. I hadn't looked at Norman Spinrad's output on Amazon. I wonder it they're Drm'ed. If not, I might buy a few and see if they need better proofing. If so, i could proof and return to Mr. Spinrad...