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All Quotes by author - Michael A. Stackpole
" A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging. "
Days
Stuff
Lot
" Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own. "
Which
Publishers
Work
" Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell. "
More
Rights
Run
" Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books. "
Books
Publishing
Digital
" Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer. "
Myself
Publish
Really
" Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read. "
Us
Want
Write
" Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price. "
Me
Enjoy
Good
" Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. "
Friends
Time
Old Friends
" Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong. "
Wrong
Me
Something
" Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers. "
Only
Group
Benefit
" I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me. "
Work
World
Never
" If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it. "
Someone
Work
Going
" If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work. "
Friends
Job
Work
" In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well. "
You
Games
Know
" I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores. "
Sell
Lot
Website
" It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content. "
Tools
Content
Been
" I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that. "
Way
Culture
Done
" Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense. "
Royalty
House
Kid
" People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket. "
Money
Going
Never
" Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales. "
Sales
Half
Market
" Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams. "
Publishing
Dreams
Ability
" The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct. "
Introduction
Reading
Pleasure
" The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose. "
Choose
Important
Money
" There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book. "
Book
Denying
" We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory. "
Life
Problems
Victory
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