Author Topic: EP328: Surviving the eBookalypse  (Read 12649 times)

lisavilisa

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Reply #25 on: June 19, 2012, 01:44:51 AM
It happened!

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Reply #26 on: September 26, 2012, 02:40:20 AM
Not a writer and I enjoyed the story. I've been reading enough Stephen King recently so I have plenty of fresh examples of bad masturbatory writer stories about writers. I found this one different, as it wasn't just a thinly veiled version of the author, but a significant exploration of a dystopian (for writers at least) future of publishing.

I fully admit the whole economic model of it is a bit shaky (I mean, who really believes that public arts funding for writers would EVER get past the GOP?)

The same way they do now. Expand arts funding and hide it behind Sesame Street. Then accuse folks who want to cut funds of punching Big Bird in the face. Sadly, for every Sesame Street there's a dozen of these that provide funding to something of questionable public value.

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