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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I don't get when authors make it harder for people to buy their books. Sure, I get when exclusive deals are made, but when you have a growing audience as you do with ebooks, why wouldn't you produce the product readers want??? I suppose he doesn't need the money.
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No, he surely doesn't need the cash, but diva stuff like this irks me. I see a lot of concerts (or used to prior to becoming a father of twins...), and you see this in musicians as well. Respecting your fans, and catering to their wishes, are very sympathetic traits for artists. On the one hand you have people like Axl Rose and Noel Gallagher, who constantly pull stuff like showing up three hours late, walking off stage for no reason, dressing down their technicians on mike and so on. They are effectively giving the one-finger salute to all supporters, as they destroy the live experience.
On the other hand you have bands like U2, who have clauses in their concert contracts that regular tickets should not cost above a certain low-ish price, because they want the gig to be affordable to all fans. They know that the fans made them what they are, and treat them respectfully and sensibly.
That said, I don't really think Mr. King belongs to the former variety. He's more similar to Tom Waits, who's a nice guy, but somewhat eccentric. Tom Waits only do very small and infrequent gigs, for which tickets are almost impossible to get. Most of his fans will never see him live. It's not to spite anyone, it's just because he wants his gigs to be something special (I'm not a fan, but I've heard he's a brilliant live artist).
Stephen King does what he pleases, but likely not in spite. I *might* buy this book when it is published as an epub (I haven't read many of his latest ones, as I think he's declined lately), before that he can certainly have his eccentricity to himself as far as I'm concerned
