So Amazon is willing to operate a
Kindle Library, $10 USD per month subscription fee, for backlist
titles of Ebooks.
The mighty JC picks up his ClueBat of
Power.
“This is backlist!” he thunders.
“This is stuff that you can't get in the bookshops because NOBODY
WANTED IT!” “These are the red-headed stepchildrenwho are now
found to have macickal powers!
The AZAMON, it MUST BE STOPPED!”
Bullshit
Some stuff you just can't find. Evelyn
Waugh's short stroies. Walker Percy's essays. Good shit. And
there's stuff you can't give away, like the political memoirs of
currently active vote- whores (I am not looking at you, Bill, Hillary
and Barry Soetero) who will never ever ever earn back their
multi-million dollar advances. We're looking at stuff where you see
a label “stop asking for it because nobody wants it, and we're
tired of saying so”. The stuff that sold 250 copies to libraries,
but you can't check it out, because eery copy has been stolen.
So the EEEEVUL AZAMON is going to get
these books into the hands of readers, for a small fee, and even GIVE
MONEY to the authors, which Libraries DON'T do. I blush. I clutch
my pearls. This is so horrid
To recap: EEEEVUL Azmon is willing to
act as a library for Ebooks, and PAY the authors. This is a bad
thing. But REAL libraries, brown-nosed by the publishers, generate
exactly Sweet Fanny Adams per eyeball on text. Putting backlist in
syndication (as it were) would at least give a good blow to the back
of the head with a 2x4 cluebat to some publishers.
Fuckit. Teh stoopid is too strong here
young Jedi.
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