<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 1, 2005, at 8:10 PM, MB wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Damien Broderick wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">When someone like Charlie Stross or Cory Doctorow releases a book under CC,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">it is ancillary to paper publication, and their hope is that readers who</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">get enthralled by the e-text will get tired of reading on the screen and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">pick up a copy at the bookstore, or via Amazon. CC release is thus a form</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of advertising; the revenue still comes from the paper books. What I'm</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">still toying with is the possibility of making this novel available for</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">download at no charge, while inviting readers who enjoy it to send us, say,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a dollar or two via PayPal.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>It is an interim form on the way to hopefully more ways to release work AND get reasonable remuneration. I don't see it as primarily advertising though. Personally I have a very nice monitor optimized for reading. It is just too hard so far to drag a suitable monitor with me everywhere I would read I haven't mounted an LCD panel on the bathroom wall for instance. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would certainly send a couple of bucks myself.</DIV><DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Charlie had 22,000 downloads fairly quickly when he put his new singularity</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">novel ACCELERANDO up for grabs. My question: how many people would feel an</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">impulse to pay the author a couple of bucks in gratitude for having the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">book might available in this way? Would anyone here be likely to do so?</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Actually as soon as it came out I ordered a hardback from Amazon. I have read half of it online. and will likely read the other half there but I still wanted the paper copy. Especially of this book. I am really very impressed with Accelerando. I haven't enjoyed any SF book as much in some time.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">- samantha</FONT><BR></BODY></HTML>