After my last post was reposted on Teleread (thanks to Paul over there for doing that, btw), an engaging discussion was started there. I spent a few stolen minutes throughout the day participating in it. However, my last comment, which I was excited about, wouldn’t post to their site, for whatever reason. I doubt it was a moderation thing, since my other comments made it through. Maybe it was a technical issue, maybe my comment was too long. Anyhow, this is what I wanted to say in response:
“I see no …

I’m a writer, at least, I like to fancy myself as one. The link to my first novella, Neither a Borrower, can be found above. It’s on Scribd.com. I posted it there for free because no one buys novellas and I’m still learning how to write, so trying to charge for it didn’t seem right. Neither a Borrower is a fair effort, but I’m still learning.
I have a master’s degree in English, a degree I earned by completing a novel as a thesis: Disappearances. Although it earned me a degree, …

I’ve been working on a post in my head about e-books. I’ve been collecting the things I wanted to say, about the price differences between physical books and e-books, how more e-book copies sold just means more profits, not more costs, and about how Apple’s app store taught us that lowering a price means more copies sold, enough to cover the differences in price. I was all excited about writing it up and making great points.
And then my buddy sent me this link. Rick Broida says everything I wanted to …