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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It's a good example of the kind of disconnect between readers and writers we have now.
Reader sees something that was previously free removed from the internet so they archive it for other readers who arrived late or didn't have the foresight to save their own copy.
Writer removes free thing from the internet because they are worried it might eat into sales of over-priced hardback sold to speculators.
An official ebook edition would have kept everyone happy. And leaving the original blog version online forever wouldn't have hurt sales of either.
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Normaly I don't get into these arguments, but
From the blog (emphisis mine):
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If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t have written a free novel for you called Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II, and I wouldn’t have offered it here for free, with the understanding that once it was finished, I’d remove it and then sell it in book form (which is how I make my living).
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So more like: Writer doing something special for blog fans (much like a free giveaway at a bookstore -you snooze, you lose) and Fan delibrately going against Writers' wishes.
(my one and only post on the subject. I now retire to the sidelines.
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