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Originally Posted by koland
The worst, of course, are authors who set up their own "special" stores and download facilities (you probably know who I'm talking about, in one case). Sure, it's DRM-free, but now you aren't depending on a company staying in business, but a person remembering to pay their website fees (and stay alive), along with their store software.
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I think I actually like it better when buy-direct single authors don't bother with the attempted storefront software* and just have something set up so that you drop your money into their Paypal tipjar or whatever with a note about what you're buying and the author or their fanboy assistant or whatever just emails you the books directly as an attachment (or has some sort of auto-Paypal add-to-cart button thing set up to do so, which I've seen a couple of authors do).
No pretense, and something of a personal touch, and it's probably more cost-effective in the long run than having to spend time and money on the special solutions.
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Originally Posted by koland
Perhaps this is the one you were thinking of, for when the cloud dumps upon thee?
No, he's not thinking, those are air bubbles rising to the surface! |
Needs some swimming fishies but otherwise, that's kind of what it's like around here. Verily do the clouds believe us to be like unto pod persons who needeth watering for a plurality of all our mortal days.
* I'd like it even better if they took their books to Baen or something like the Book View Cafe which I have to say are examples of How To Do It Right (even if the latter could stand to have more sample chapters proportionate to book length and it would be nice if they ever held sales or at least made a note of which authors were special-discounting some of their titles for a limited time, instead of my having to find out via fortuitous 3rd party alerts).