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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Anais,
"Ignorance" and "prejudice" might be overly hard-sounding, but comments like "nothing but bad and unaccomplished authors," "can't hack it in real publishing," "I can't read on a computer screen," and "it'll just get corrupted or deleted," are the kind of comments I regularly hear about e-books (outside of this forum, obviously). Those are not the comments from well-informed people... those are people who are mis-informed, or behind the state of the industry, and are making subjective judgements as gospel.
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I particularly like the "nothing but bad and unaccomplished authors," "can't hack it in real publishing" comments. Let's see... that would be authors like Lois McMaster Bujold (currently tied for most Best-Novel Hugo awards ever, and frequent NYT bestseller (extended list)). Or David Weber (no Hugos, but has hit the top of the NYT bestseller list more than once). Or, via Project Gutenberg, such timeless greats as William Shakespear, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and on, and on, and on.
It should be perfectly clear that there's "nothing but bad and unaccomplished authors," to be found in eBooks. Yup. And none of those folks could "hack it in real publishing." Riiiiiiiiiigggght.
Methinks I detect some sour grapes.