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This offer will stay open all week. And look! Some links!
The season pass: scarletferret.com/books/fermis...
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And Amazon, if you're into that sort of thing: www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Wake-...
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YEARS ago, some doofus tried to stir up some discord against Iron Circus for "What Spike stands to make" from the six-figure Kickstarter take for the complete Girls With Slingshots.
In his back-of-the-napkin calculation, eh handwaved "Whatever shipping costs."
You mean $40,000, dumbass?
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The British will put you in a class box a few seconds after hearing you speak but still have no idea what class is. Obviously it’s complicated if you aren’t white that does confuse people. When I say my mum’s family are middle class in Barbados people have asked me how
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i love the Addams family for a million and one reasons, but lately, I've been wanting a tattoo of their creed:
we gladly feast on those who would subdue us.
sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc.
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Focus groups are lethal to authentic art because their purpose is to keep people from being angry at the company selling the art. They’re the corporate equivalent of a person writing in that defensive way people write when they’ve been on social media for too long.
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‘Anyone familiar with Le Guin who has not read the Orsinian stories will perhaps need to take a moment to reorientate expectations: there are no ansibles, no Hainish [...] These are realist stories set in an unreal place; somewhere we half-know but of course cannot know.’
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I've been double-checking things like who controls top-level domains.
I've always bought 'local' versions alongside my '.com' domain names. As 'they' learn more about the control and interference of these areas, I want to be sure I have a backup.
Yes, control is independent NOW, but for how long?
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They're already using that exact approach though? Ebooks bought on bookshop can only be read in their app or in browser, not downloaded to readers. It's keeping me from using them for ebooks :(
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Just as an aside, if you need to convert your ebooks (or any files for that matter), I love Convertio!
While DRM is entirely another matter. Take a look at TheEpubizer.com for more info.
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If you decide to download your ebooks to keep safe, you can store hundreds of DRM-free books in your personal Libreture library.
Libreture supports DRM-free epub, Mobi, PDF, CBZ, & CBR formats, and displays the cover and info from the ebook file itself. You can even track your reading activity. 💜
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Many readers buy ebooks from Amazon even though they don't own a Kindle device.
Amazon, or maybe the large publishers, would prefer to remove your choice of which device to read on, and what you can do with the ebooks you 'own'.
It raises the question again: Do we really own our ebooks?