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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
After sj posted the link to American Gods, I started reading it at the link (because it's not like I'm going to *work* at, you know, work). So when the end of the day rolled around, I had read a chunk of it, and needed to keep reading it, so I went to Half-Price Books and bought it. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it.
Yay! You just proved the point Gaiman made in his blog the other day when he was chastized by a bookseller for giving away a book for free.
Well, technically, Gaiman didn't get any money from that transaction, right? Heh.
No, but his point was more that people would still buy books, even if some were offered free. He didn't get into new versus used, but it was more about the booksellers than his making money or not.
It helps that the online version was basically scanned pages and not at all satisfying in a bookish way.
Speaking of online books I guess I should note that my second book Lost in the Grooves is now online in Google Books.
So if you were at work and wanted to look something up in it, it is no further away than your browser.
I'm sure this will do wonders for sales. Hmph.
The next installment in A Song of Ice and Fire is up for pre-order . . . I can barely believe it!
It doesn't look like that much of Lost In The Grooves is on Google Books. Enough to tempt readers to buy it, I think.
It doesn't look like that much of Lost In The Grooves is on Google Books. Enough to tempt readers to buy it, I think.Temptation is good.
Temptation is good.
I can resist everything but.
Did anyone see the story in the NY Times about a woman who sold her memoir about growing up with the gangs of LA ... and, just before it hit the stores, it turned out it was a fake?