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Originally Posted by geertm
I really do not understand it.
A lot of people are complaining about high book prices and publishers.
Here an author is selling his own books for a very reasonable price at his own website. Where you know all the money will go to the author, not to a publisher. And still people are complaining  |
I don't think it's complaining exactly, but more of this feels like...blackmail? I know it isn't and I know that's overstating the situation, but I've heard a few people (fans of Stackpole) who consider this nothing more than that. He won't write X until the fans pony up X amount in sales for a book they might already own. That's bound to annoy some, turn some away and by the sales figures that were mentioned in an earlier post, it looks as if the whole endeavour seems to have failed. His name in print might mean a lot to some, but in the Wild West of digital publishing, he has to earn his spurs with the rest of us gunslingers.*
*That's it, no more Red Dead redemption.