Sadly, I have to forgo this discussion until some time tomorrow or very late tonight, as I have a reading to do later and need to format one of my books to ePub and LRF to read from on my PRS-950 in a few scant hours.
I did, however, want to ask a few quick questions.
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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Gameboys have gone the way of the dodo. Nintendo discontinued it years ago.
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I seem to be missing your point. The Gameboy was succeeded by the Gameboy Advance and the DS, and iterations of the DS are still strong, just as the Wii is the direct descendant of the Gamecube. And while the DS is different in the sense it can be used as a multimedia device in limited ways, it is still a gaming platform primarily, and until only recently was dependent on physical media just like the Gameboy.
BTW: The Gameboy has had a second life as an
8-bit musical instrument for rather a long time. I mention that not in reference to your argument but because I like the idea. How might future funsters modify and use an eInk device?
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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Scifi authors are often visionaries who have written of things that come to pass. Steampunk writers, not so much.
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Staying away from your mystifying statement about steampunk writers in general (how many have you or I actually read?), I have to ask: Why are you drawing a false distinction between science fiction writers and steampunk writers? Steampunk in the original sense
is science fiction.
First,
Jeter is a veteran science fiction writer who happened to coin the word
steampunk in 1987 to describe
someone else's work. His best-known books aren't associated with steampunk at all. Besides which, a few of his better cultural/technological guesses have trumped Dick, Gibson and other SF writers (as did his aesthetic, which Dick clearly incorporated).
He's written a few novels that he himself would describe as steampunk, but so have other many other established science fiction writers (most famously, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in
The Difference Engine). He isn't some frighteningly prolific fanhack who embraced the term as a lifestyle or self-definition.
Also: If you're looking for someone who trivializes or opposes the existence of your eReader to go after, you've got the wrong person. Jeter actually reproofs and formats the eBook editions of his novels himself.
I know of other established writers who push their publishers and agents to make eBook editions available, but very few of them insist on doing all the work.
That guy, gentlepersons, does.