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In my age and wisdom I find that I can't get through a even a quarter of what I read these days. At best. 29 times out of 30. I throw it aside exclaiming, "wha
by swayvil 4y ago
In my age and wisdom I find that I can't get through a even a quarter of what I read these days. At best. 29 times out of 30.
I throw it aside exclaiming, "what crap!".
If it weren't for free blackmarket epubs I would have wasted a fortune.
Where have all the good sci fi writers gone?
- neilv 4y agoIf there weren't black market epubs, would that be one component to market forces doing their thing for high-quality content? Related example, on a different factor: yesterday, I paid $51 for a nonfiction non-DRM .epub form of a book that was also available for $27 in ereader-specific DRM form. Had I instead pirated the book, that wouldn't have contributed to publisher incentive to offer non-DRM form, but that presumably would've contributed to the publisher wanting hard DRM lockdown. (Or, I suppose, might've contributed to the publisher focusing on other factors than high quality, such as large volume, to bring it back to the earlier question?)
- swayvil 4y agoHere's some high-quality legal free scifi. There is no antimemetics division, fine structure, etc : https://qntm.org/fiction https://qntm.org/fiction Friendship is Optimal : https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal