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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Mr. Keene has complained extensively about the pirating of an ebook he himself offered as an incentive for purchasing the official release. He has taken on a role no traditional author wants, which is to be seller, advertiser, marketer and advocate of his own work.
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According to whom? I'm not trying to be touchy at you, but I'm a little bored of the meme that before ebooks, all the TAs sat in darkened rooms cordoned off from their readership, but then the ebooks came along and forced them out in the sunlight where they are reacting in a manner usually reserved for vampires.
Maybe it's because I'm coming from a sf/f perspective but "be engaged with your readership" and "don't be a dick" have always been basic rules for TAs. And sell/advertise/market/advocate has pretty much always been true -- unless convention appearances and book signings have been figments of my imagination all this time in which case I wish you guys had told me that earlier.
