tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post4207083932593877679..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: Dirty, Sloppy LinkageCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-36843176735485569532012-12-13T10:33:48.674-08:002012-12-13T10:33:48.674-08:00Linkage: MSM finally picking up the worthless degr...Linkage: MSM finally picking up the worthless degrees story. http://education.yahoo.net/articles/degrees_to_avoid2.htm?kid=1NQM0<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-66895157742896981032012-12-09T09:40:33.373-08:002012-12-09T09:40:33.373-08:00You might want to check out this guys book about s...You might want to check out this guys book about self publishing.<br /><br />After reading your stuff for a while now, I think that you would appreciate his style and approach.<br /><br />http://www.johntreed.com/HTWP.htmlRichnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-22009806117368030362012-12-08T15:58:15.124-08:002012-12-08T15:58:15.124-08:00My one concern with Amazon is their ability to tak...My one concern with Amazon is their ability to take away a book you purchased if they feel you shouldn't have it. This happened with a Kindle copy of Orwell's 1984, of all things. There was a dispute between the publisher and Orwell's estate, and BAM! everybody who'd bought the book woke up the next morning and no longer had it. <br /><br />I've got no desire to see my collection wiped out, so whenever I purchase from Amazon the first thing I do is copy it to Calibre and strip off the DRM, and then transfer it to a Kindle which has never been registered with them. I did that with your book, for instance, as well as Vox Day's "Return of the Great Depression." <br /><br />Paranoid? Sure. But I have no desire to see my books vanish because Amazon decided they don't want me reading them.<br />Fausthttp://www.google.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-21728025461958394232012-12-08T11:56:27.616-08:002012-12-08T11:56:27.616-08:00In reference to Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish C...In reference to Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda", calling the teenaged girl bank robber stupid is an insult to stupid people.kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-41028427651100894772012-12-08T06:37:46.134-08:002012-12-08T06:37:46.134-08:00True.
Regarding 1: Very much true.
The "for...True.<br /><br />Regarding 1: Very much true.<br /><br />The "formal" writing community online pushes the whole traditional route a lot. There's a lot of browbeating the view that self-published books don't have quality control, they're slapped together haphazardly via print-on-demand...<br /><br />Anyone who looks at the rows upon rows of paranormal romances these days can guess as to the "quality control" those guys are up to.<br /><br />Part of the allure, I think, is about the validation. "My book was accepted by an agent/major publishing house! Yay me!"<br /><br />I remember writing my damn query letters, polishing them to perfection, and then receiving a standard rejection. Publishing is (still) a buyer's market when it comes to thousands of hopefuls finishing their NaNos and chucking them at the nearest agency. Sturgeon's law rules, no matter where you go.The Observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04346786263027033729noreply@blogger.com