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Old 08-10-2010, 04:47 PM   #5926
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I think Niffenegger has a thing for expecting to get paid for every person that reads her book. She said reading her novel in paper as a book was the way it was meant to be consumed.

(Oh, and getting that money to make it into a movie was nice too.)

Personally, the expectation that not having an official ebook version will keep protect a copyright is naive. Although sharing books has been allowed for every... at least paper books.

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I wonder if David Markson has a thing against ebooks, like Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)?
You mean "had a thing...." I noticed on the Wiki page that he died in June.
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I'm also a great Albert Campion fan and love Margaret Allingham's writing style. Her books have really "Got the doings".
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Old 08-10-2010, 06:08 PM   #5929
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Thanks for the recommendation -- I just downloaded "The Book of Adam," after reading the sample on Amazon. It looks good. Also -- DRM free.
This book is GOOD. I really appreciate the way he writes -- I'd call it kind of a "clean" style, if that makes any sense. Not overly descriptive or flowery, but he manages to paint a picture or an emotion very well in just a few well-chosen words. I'm impressed if this is really his first book because it doesn't have an amateur feel to it at all.

(I'm only about a quarter of the way through it, but from what others have said here I don't expect it to fall apart.)
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Shhhh... don't tell Niffenegger about yard sales!
My mom borrowed Time Traveller's Wife from my aunt, then she loaned it to me. I loaned it to somebody at work, before returning it to my mom, who then loaned it to my SIL who as far as I know still has it But I suppose I should keep my mouth shut or mothers will be outlawed soon...
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My mom borrowed Time Traveller's Wife from my aunt, then she loaned it to me. I loaned it to somebody at work, before returning it to my mom, who then loaned it to my SIL who as far as I know still has it But I suppose I should keep my mouth shut or mothers will be outlawed soon...
Audrey is looking for you...I'd watch my back if I were you! Maybe get the concealed weapons permit if you haven't yet.
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Old 08-11-2010, 08:31 AM   #5932
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Audrey is looking for you...I'd watch my back if I were you! Maybe get the concealed weapons permit if you haven't yet.
I wish Ms. Niffenegger would get over her hang up about ebooks. She's upset that, among other things, the cover art doesn't display properly, but that's not an issue with color readers like the iPad. And since her books are available as audiobooks, the argument seems silly.

She's an extremely talented author. Too bad she's so averse to ebooks.
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Old 08-11-2010, 08:37 AM   #5933
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I don't remember the cover of The Time Traveller's Wife as particularly unforgettable... did she make it or choose it herself? What's it to her? That argument sounds like a cover-up for something else, namely fear of losing control of the diffusion of her work.
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Old 08-11-2010, 09:29 AM   #5934
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I don't remember the cover of The Time Traveller's Wife as particularly unforgettable... did she make it or choose it herself? What's it to her? That argument sounds like a cover-up for something else, namely fear of losing control of the diffusion of her work.
From the Wikipedia article for The Time Traveler's Wife:

"Niffenegger is an artist who teaches at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where she painstakingly prepares editions of handpainted books."
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"Niffenegger is an artist who teaches at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where she painstakingly prepares editions of handpainted books."
Ah. Maybe that explains why she is so attached to paper books then
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Old 08-11-2010, 09:54 AM   #5936
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From the "Audrey Niffenegger Explains How To Create a Good Story" interview by Jessica Strawser (September 25, 2009):

Niffenegger: "My take on that these days is a kind of cautious wait and see. People seem to have gotten the idea that I’m adamantly opposed to the existence of eBooks, which I’m not. There are some very very good reasons for ebooks to exist, and certainly a lot of people love their Kindles. I am hanging back because I am one of those kinds of people who adopt everything late. I’m waiting to see how it goes because there’s so much uncertainty right now that surrounds ebooks. I mean, there’s the whole business part of it—you don’t want to come down on the wrong side of something and inadvertently stifle competition or cause a problem for bookstores. It’s all in flux right now, and I think a lot of authors are trepiditious, it’s not just me."

That seems to imply her entire attitude towards ebook is one of wait-and see, but it seems at odds with this earlier reply by Ms. Niffenegger to MobileRead member BookCat:

.....I'm sorry, but I've devoted my life to physical books (I helped found the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts) and e-books = dematerialised books. E-books imperil book design, typography, and other art forms that I care about. E-books are also not helpful to bookstores, and I love bookstores. So even though I understand that many people prefer e-books, I am not planning to issue my books in that form if I can avoid it. If that means I sell fewer books, so be it.
.....Thank you for your interest in my work, and for taking the time to write to me.

Perhaps she'll reconsider, although I appreciate her concerns. I hope so, as she is a wonderful author.
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Old 08-11-2010, 10:19 AM   #5937
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"Niffenegger is an artist who teaches at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where she painstakingly prepares editions of handpainted books."
AH! Now it makes more sense. That would definitely color her attitude.
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I loved The Time-Traveller's Wife. Haven't read her other book yet.
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Old 08-11-2010, 10:32 AM   #5939
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Same here, but I plan to. TTTW was great; and the movie adaptation was surprisingly faithful to the book.
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Finished Runemarks by Joanne Harris yesterday. Very, very good. Highly recommended for anyone with a taste for stories with elements of the fantastic and for (Norse) mythology. At first it can come across as YA novel, but it really is written for adults.

I'll have to get round to "The long goodbye" soon now, but first up is "A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster" by Wendy Moffat, because the library wants it back soon, and the Kindle sample was too short for me to figure out whether I want to spend $17 on it.
A book with this exact topic is something I would very much like to read, but I'm not sure I like this exact incarnation and her style.
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