Sooooo...Patrick. ARE you declaring an email DMZ/Amnesty/Bankruptcy/Singularity? Want to remail you something if so, but don't want to pile lead on a drowning man if not.
Post-Scarcity Anarchy
Post-Singularity Attitude
Poly-Specific Association
Tor rejects books for perceived commercial worth, not quality.
How about "Tor sometimes rejects books for perceived commercial worth, rather than quality."? I don't think you meant to imply that Tor never rejects books for lack of quality. Do you think they'd publish a book if it were absolute garbage but would sell?
Ah, I didn't scroll down far enough. I find some of the words a little hard to make out in the video, so I have to count up or down from the last one I can discern.
Also, the cute guy in bed with Muppets is credited as "Team Genius," which I doubt is his actual name. From the TG site I think he's Todd Michael Rogers.
Who's the cutie in bed with the Muppets?
I love this!
You think Munroe has noticed this yet?
Oh, come on, Avram. You know that those magazines are, or at least were when I was a kid, called "comic books" by the kids who bought and read them.
That doesn't really undercut your point about the difference between the "Legion of Super Heroes" comics I bought when I was a kid and the modern graphic novel, which point I agree with.
Wow. Just saw this video. Sarah Palin reading cheatnotes off her palm at a convention ofmoronsteabaggers.
heresiarch 205:
Here's a start, though they admit there are others they're not talking about.
Wow, I'm glad the drugs are working. I had no idea you were still sick.
It looks like weblogs (or comment threads—the horror).
CETFY
Avram, there would be some great cheese if everyone made their own, but a lot of it would be shitty.
There are some great self-published books out there, but a lot of them are very shitty cheese indeed. Yes, there are shitty-cheese traditionally-published books too, but I'd bet there are fewer of those. (Willing to be persuaded otherwise.)
I love it when right-wing loonies go after each other.
To elaborate, you don't sell things at a profit in order to sell more of a different thing at a loss. It's the other way around.
Mike, the Kindle is overpriced and a profitable item for Amazon. The ebooks are loss leaders. Your theory is refuted by these two facts.
Amazon would like to take a thin-to-negative margin, for whatever reason. (Possible reasons include: 1) driving the competition out of business, 2) ensuring that e-books are cheap enough that people don't decide that piracy is a better option, 3) the belief that they can push down their wholesale costs in the long term and get the better sales volume caused by low prices plus better margins.)
Why are you ignoring the obvious reason? They want to sell lots of Kindles, and below-cost pricing on ebooks will help them do that. I'm not sure how you could have missed that.
Hey, Kevin, cheesemaking is a sacred calling. "Blessed are the cheesemakers," remember?
Serge, I hate to break it to you...
ONLY KIDDING! HONEST! DON'T KILL ME!
"Hey, girlfriend, how you doin' today?" "I got PMS and a rifle, boyfriend, life is good."
This exchange is beyond price, and so are you!
As a Scawwy Bad Unit-Disruptative Homosexical, I do have to admit I've had my fantasies about Special Forces guys. Never, ever, about the kind of testosterone-poisoned thug-freaks who work for Blackwater, the type we used to call 'gorillas' until we all learned that real gorillas would set a good example of patient restraint to the average human male.
I do not agree with the Mysteries Should Have Extra Syllables line of liturgical reasoning.
It's worse than that. It's a Big Words Are Incomprehensible line of reasoning. What a frakking moron.
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