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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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Thanks for that link too. In fact the author's sadness about the warlike behaviour of both indies and paper-published fellow authors of her in which she refuses to engage, inspired me to a comment (I do this rarely, as I don't consider myself to be that brilliant, that every blog out there needs my 2¢ attached) It's just that this refusal to flame warfare and sadness about how others behave touched me. Since said comment awaits modertional approval ovef there and I 'd be interested in comments from MRers (especially the authors present here) I'll go and just quote myself:
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1st things first: I’m no writer, just a reader. So maybe I shouldn’t even reply here  but I do so because I wanted to thank you for condensing so much sanity into a single blog post.
Having said that: I found one of my favourite SF books as en ebook publication. Am I happy about that? Yeah. It was a great read worth standing next to my Asimov’s. The book in question has due to it’s success found it’s way into paper publishing. Am I sad about that? No why. This way it ‘ll reach people who still/yet/whyever are not comfortable with a digital reader. Giving them a good time and more money to the author. Everyone wins here.
I discovered at least 3 long ago started and paper-published series by established authors due to freebie ebook recommendation. Wouldn’t have risked to buy them blindly because of the (IMHO far too narrow) subgenre branding. Some of these weren’t even translated to neither my maternal language nor the language of the country I currently live in. I have them in English now and would never have considered to import them in paper, because of the additional cost, just to try a new author. Again: A new fan and forthcoming buyer won by new paths. Instead of getting frantic about how to publish authors should better keep their main concern focused on WHAT and kick it out every way opening to them – because at the end of EVERY distribution channel there are potential readers-to-be. Pouring oil into flame wars about which is the Right! WAY to publish is as stupid as the Liliputanian war about how to crack ones breakfast egg properly. In both cases the answer is: All which get the content into the consumer.
Thanks for your patience, along with my sincere apologies should I have failed expected linguistic standards of this place: English is tertiary language for me.
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