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Old 05-23-2010, 11:18 AM   #63
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Originally Posted by pricecw View Post
When you want to build a career on the willingness for people to give you money for temporary enjoyment, making those people angry is a very poor move.
We have a true tempest in a tea pot here .
If you go over to her blog, you will see that most people are happy for her and still support her. She agreed to send privately the missing ending to donators that missed it, even though doing this could probably put her in a bad position with her editor.

She stated repetitively that she tried to keep the ebook up, but was pressured to remove it.

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I was asked to take it down repeatedly before now--and asked to take the entire book down, which I have fought not to do--and held off until today, at which point it was made pretty clear it needed to happen now
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I am not Cory Doctorow. I can't even retain my erights on any novel the way he does.
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I hope I have that kind of clout someday too--I would love to be able to put up everything for free the way he (Cory) does.
http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/583585.html#comments

Please give her some slack. I never heard of her before, but I will certainly have a look at the book when it's released next year.

Now please take some croissant and some hot chocolate to dip them in


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