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Originally Posted by Elsi
I took the survey, but there was one question I absolutely could not answer honestly. I tried to skip it, but was told "This question requires an answer". To the question "Angry Robot will make all our books available to read, either in full or in part, on the internet. How do you think this will effect your likelihood to buy Angry Robot ebooks?" I wanted to reply "I don't read books on my PC." Instead, I was forced to pick one of their prepared answers that assumed everyone is willing to read books or book samples on the Internet. See the attached image for all the choices they offered.
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Yes, I felt I couldn't really answer it either, but I picked number 2. I'm not really interested in reading on my PC or a p-book, and if it's an author I know, I don't necessarily want to read samples.
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Originally Posted by rlparker
The first line in the version of the survey I took was
"Angry Robot, the new SF, F and WTF? imprint from HarperCollins..."
Okay, I got SF and F but what is "WTF?"? I mean, I'm familiar with an expression whose initialism is "wtf", but I can't figure out what that has to do with books. Unless it's a book you read that's so dense or obscure or pointless, you go wtf?  |
I'm guessing it's stories that are odd or strange and hard to place in one the currently accepted genres. I'm thinking something like Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things" for example.