Yay. I’m getting a schedule back and looking forward to having it smooth out as the season progresses.
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I hope your wife feels better soon.
Is the end of August deadline for the novel you are writing self-imposed or contractual?
I may have missed this if you said it in a previous morning walk.
For reference, that last 223 books (SciFi) I have read have all been ebooks, either public domain or Kindle books. I don’t remember that last time I read a “paper” book. Of course, your perspective on the elephant may vary. From my perspective, I find it like a rope. Hmm… I always seem to grab the wrong end:)
I’ve put a downpayment on an editor’s time slot for September. I can slip it a bit, but if I don’t get it in there, she’ll have to bump me for later in the year…pushing it into next year probably.
Understood. Deadlines can be… motivating:)
I look forward to reading what you are working on.
One point that keeps striking me – you do not *BUY* an e-book. You license it. Even though that nice pretty button on Amazon, or Kobo, or Smashwords says “Buy” – or I think sometimes “Purchase” – if you dig around enough on the websites, they all have language saying they can remove the book from your device at any time, and wipe out any cloud-stored copies they can find. Companies like Baen, and now Tor, are selling without DRM – but that does not prevent Amazon or other retailer from being able to remove it from your cloud storage, and I don’t think it stops them from the normal storage for their app on your device.
When you buy or purchase ANY book, you are really getting the right to read said book. We might own bits paper or electronica, but the intellectual property isn’t ours to use as we wish. The part about removing it from our storage is new to the digital book, but I’ve got a couple of thousand e book and music files on Amazon and none have been removed. { don’t ever want to go back to the good old days of moving and storing paper and vinyl.
I’ve got 3G and wi=fi on Kindles, but it is usually turned off. I wouldn’t think the books could be removed in that case.
Well, no – with the WiFi and 3G turned off, the books aren’t deleted immediately. Though as soon as you turn connectivity on to receive new books, it can (and will).
The situation with physical books is more complex, and is why the whole thing is called “copy right”. You do actually own that one physical representation of the book, which is why you are allowed to sell it, even for less than the publisher sells new items – the Doctrine of First Sale. This has been somewhat expanded over the last few years to include interoperability – which is why you can now buy toy construction blocks that will inter-operate with Legos, and has prevented car manufacturers from setting it up so you can only have your vehicle serviced by authorized dealers.
But the distinction is there – I have one author who self-published a title, then was picked up by 47N and had a pretty extensively revised edition published. 47N of course required him to remove the original edition (which is a shame – I have both, and much prefer the original) – so at least in theory, I could have been required to delete the original edition, or had it deleted for me.