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Just wanted to chime in that I love your website and love binge reading articles from it every few months.. Thanks for all the work you've done on it! I never
by gommm 5y ago
Just wanted to chime in that I love your website and love binge reading articles from it every few months.. Thanks for all the work you've done on it!
I never actually read the book mostly because I tend to read ebooks and it doesn't seem to be available as one? Kind of curious about the exclusive content though.
- DamnInteresting 5y agoThanks! Yes, unfortunately the physical book was never released as an e-book. It was released around the time e-books were first becoming viable, and a few months after it was published the publisher proposed we release it as an e-book. But the new contract was very far-reaching, and would have granted the publisher half of all proceeds of any "electronic distribution" of the book's content. When I asked them to revise the contract to exempt the preexisting website from this condition, they lost interest.
- gommm 5y agoSigh, that publisher really seemed tone deaf between the cover and this... Is there still exclusive content in the book that never was published on the site?
- DamnInteresting 5y agoYes, though it is not a huge quantity of content. If memory serves, there were four writings made exclusively for the book. The publisher really was a pain in the ass. In addition to what I already mentioned, they insisted that I be listed as the book's author, despite the fact that I only wrote about half of the content. I argued for the author credit to be "The [name of the website] Editors", but they ignored my input, claiming that books sell better when a single person is named as the primary author. In so doing they drove a wedge between me and my fellow authors.