(1613,6362,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-11-30 14:14:02','2010-11-30 14:14:02','Focus and control have the been the hardest thing for me to learn as a writer. It took many manuscripts of \"going down the wrong road\" and major rewrites to listen to the little voice inside my head that told me I needed to look ahead and reorganize my thoughts. I\'ve always been a plotter, but that doesn\'t mean my plotting/outline doesn\'t change as I write the book. I need to make sure those changes are going in the right direction.\n\nI stay as far away from word count as possible. For some reason it messes with me head when I look at word count. Progress for me is writing a scene. Editing a scene, or whatever with a scene. I also move in acts. When I get a TP, I go back, evaluate, then look at head to the next TP before moving on. The only time I measured in word count was the one year I participated in NaNoWriMo. And while I got a book out of it, it was a one hell of a rewrite.\n\nThanks for all the lovely tips and tidbits. You always keep me grounded. Thanks!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1614,6362,'Hell has its Demons Progress | Praeter Naturam','','http://marklord.info/2010/12/15/hell-has-its-demons-progress/','97.74.24.98','2010-12-15 12:00:47','2010-12-15 12:00:47','[...] Defining the progress in &#8216;work in progress&#8217; (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1615,6363,'Jan','Laydilejur@hotmail.com','','95.8.57.119','2010-12-07 21:58:32','2010-12-07 21:58:32','Just tried to download the book but it only appears to be available to Kindle and iBook users in the US - is that correct?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1616,6363,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-07 22:05:50','2010-12-07 22:05:50','I honestly don\'t know... but let me ask.',0,'1','','',1615,0),(1617,6364,'Joe Moore','joe@joe-moore.com','http://www.joe-moore.com','72.153.191.148','2010-12-07 13:52:27','2010-12-07 13:52:27','Gee, David, you make it sound so easy. And here I thought writing was supposed to be hard. :-) Happy Holidays!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1618,6364,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-12-07 14:12:04','2010-12-07 14:12:04','This morning I opened tweetdeck to find \"Urgent call for Writers\". I immediately hit the spam and report button, but it does nothing. This is a something bugs me because they attach my name to it and its not something I would ever help promote, and I help promote a lot of things. I like to RT things by my fellow writers, especially things like this blog where you have a lot valuable information for writers. Or reviews of good books. Industry news that is important. Many new writers don\'t know the business and we need to understand how it \"really\" works. I came into being a writer later in life and to some I approached it backward. Learned business first, writing second. Oddly enough, I decided to stay, even knowing the realities of the business.\n\nWriting is hard work. It takes dedication and even some of the most talented writers don\'t get published. There is no secret handshake, no magic formula, no fairy dust. I wish writers didn\'t fall for things like Urgent call for Writers, or such places as Author Solutions, a vanity press. If an author really wants to go it alone, there are ways that don\'t cost them money or cost very little, but as you said, self-publishing for the unpublished in fiction is a tough sell. If you have a backlist, I think its a different story and non-fiction is a different all together, especially if you are a well-known speaker. There are a lot of changes happening in publishing and it is an exciting time to be an author. There are opportunities, but with that comes all these idiots targeting people who might not know the business, or who are desperate to be published.\n\nHoly Geez on the contest. I haven\'t entered in one in years, and if I had any though to recently, that just flew out of the bat cave. In my unpublished days I was a contest junky. I won a couple too, but for my hundreds of dollars spent on them, it didn\'t net me anything.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1619,6364,'hemlock1981','mac_gyue@yahoo.com','http://hemlock1981.wordpress.com','192.250.173.20','2010-12-07 15:02:25','2010-12-07 15:02:25','As I do not follow Twitter, I unfortunately get them in my email sometimes.  I have thought the same thing as you, but then realized that if it didn\'t \"work\" on people, then the spammers wouldn\'t send them out.  So since there is still no quick way to get a book published, I will just have to keep plugging along.  Thanks for the post.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1620,6364,'Jane Smith','hprw@tesco.net','http://howpublishingreallyworks.com','95.210.120.56','2010-12-07 17:00:29','2010-12-07 17:00:29','David, thank you for saying such kind words about my blog and me. I\'m very touched. In the last couple of hours the winner of the BWA has left this comment on my blog post:\n\n\"When I was informed I was a finalist I was shown a sample contract, as were all the other potential winners. I had it checked out by The Society of Authors (of which, by then I was a member) and was told it was fine. I then signed an agreement with the BWA to say that if I won, I would be happy with this contract. My book was already ‘in print’ with Chandler’s Book Design so the editing process had already been done.\"\n\nI\'d love to see what a good agent thought of that contract, and whether or not they considered a boiler-plate contract with a book packager to be \"fine\"; and having a self-published book \"in print\" with anyone doesn\'t guarantee it\'s been edited to anything like the necessary degree, as we very well know.\n\nMs Cooper is happy with her lot, and I\'m very pleased for her. But that doesn\'t mean that this episode has been handled well, nor that it\'s a good solution for everyone--or anyone--else.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1621,6364,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-07 17:06:32','2010-12-07 17:06:32','Good luck to the writer concerned as you say. But a book prize is a book prize and a book contract is something altogether different. If one is to be tied to the other it should be dependent on proper negotiation after the prize is won. Not part of some round robin contract signing on condition it\'s won.\n\nI\'ve never heard of anything quite like it. I\'ve amended my comments above to reflect this new information.',0,'1','','',1620,0),(1622,6364,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-07 17:07:24','2010-12-07 17:07:24','Season\'s greetings to you too Joe - hope it\'s warm in Florida',0,'1','','',1617,0),(1623,6364,'Jane Smith','hprw@tesco.net','http://howpublishingreallyworks.com','95.210.120.56','2010-12-07 21:56:20','2010-12-07 21:56:20','Have you noticed my update? The BWA has a number of endorsements on its website, from all sorts of people, including David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown.\n\nThe one from Gordon Brown comes complete with the 10 Downing Street crest and address, and is attributed to \"Gordon Brown, Prime Minister\"; and yet it\'s dated 26 June 2010 by which time the Camerons had moved into Number Ten, and Mr Brown was no longer Prime Minister.  I wonder what\'s happened there, then?\n\nAlso, Victoria Strauss has blogged about the \"writers needed\" twitter-spam in this very thoughtful post:\n\nhttp://accrispin.blogspot.com/2010/11/fake-writing-jobs-realwritingjobscom.html\n\nShe\'s good. I always enjoy her articles.',0,'1','','',1621,0),(1624,6364,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-07 22:08:32','2010-12-07 22:08:32','Amazing eh? Well done for bringing this to people\'s attention, Jane',0,'1','','',1623,0),(1625,6364,'When an offer looks too good to be true... | (Semi) Intellectual Blathering','','http://www.intellectualblathering.com/archives/2805','67.205.61.213','2010-12-08 13:01:31','2010-12-08 13:01:31','[...] are out there targeting writers &#8211; and how easy it could be to fall for them.Related articlesFancy the writing life? Get real&#8230; (davidhewson.com)How to Build a Writer Platform on The Internet (webupon.com)Avoid being scammed [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1626,6364,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-12-08 14:08:33','2010-12-08 14:08:33','The thing I find even more disturbing than Ms Cooper\'s publishing surprise is the fact that the same organization publishes her, then canonizes her with their award. It\'s really pretty masterful - it affirms to the 21,000 applicants that, yes, dreams CAN come true. Next year, they\'ll probably take in 400,000 pounds from people going for that magic 10,000 pound golden ticket...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1627,6364,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-08 14:11:08','2010-12-08 14:11:08','With you there. Given the number of genuine people who seem to be supporting this enterprise I hope some questions will be asked. Literary prizes, if we must have them, should be organised by non-profitable bodies who do nothing else.\n\nInteresting to see that Gordon Brown sent a photo and a supporting letter as Prime Minister... several weeks after he was ejected from Downing Street.\n\nhttp://www.britwriters.co.uk/uploads/files/GordonBrownBWAStatement.jpg',0,'1','','',1626,0),(1628,6365,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','126.253.116.154','2010-12-08 09:41:03','2010-12-08 09:41:03','I don\'t always agree with everything you have to say about writing (which is only natural, I guess) but this entry is among one of the finest things you\'ve written here. I totally agree with you.\n\nWriting successfully cannot be taught. You either have an ability or you don\'t. It cannot be bought.  And those that have become successful would still be writing regardless of wealth or success. They write because they simply have to. For these individuals, the act of writing is what gives their life meaning.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1629,6365,'Allison Brennan','allison@allisonbrennan.com','http://www.allisonbrennan.com','173.85.203.159','2010-12-08 09:44:37','2010-12-08 09:44:37','Excellent post.\n\nThe only thing I \"paid\" for before I was published: paper, postage for my query letters, and membership into RWA. Oh, and a few books (like SELF EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS) plus a publishers marketplace membership to research agents. I didn\'t even go to a writers conference before I sold.\n\nHmm, maybe I paid in time.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1630,6365,'Claire King','claireking@gmail.com','http://www.claire-king.com','90.50.67.86','2010-12-08 09:54:57','2010-12-08 09:54:57','David,\nGreat to see you joining the fray. You make some excellent points here and I hope that writers googling BWA and finding these blog discussions start to realise that there is a whole community available for help and advice. For free.\nClaire',0,'1','','',0,0),(1631,6365,'Mark J','mark@thebookmonkeys.co.uk','http://www.thebookmonkeys.co.uk/','81.149.160.113','2010-12-08 10:59:42','2010-12-08 10:59:42','Interesting points, I  think a writer needs  at least two things; imagination and technical writing ability. Now if you have people offering to improve your writing ability which is what I guess most of these places do will there be places springing up that that offer to improve your imagination? Could I launch Mark\'s Imagination Factory where I\'ll force ideas into your brain down a premium rate phone line...?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1632,6365,'Jane SmithThey','hprw@tesco.net','http://howpublishingreallyworks.com','86.189.24.139','2010-12-08 11:13:51','2010-12-08 11:13:51','Wow, David, I\'m flattered. Thank you so much.\n\nI share your concerns about how \"becoming an author\" is becoming big business, and I\'m worried that I\'m becoming a part of that: I\'m writing a book which is based on my blog; I appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer talking about the publishing business; and I\'ll be on at York in March, too.\n\nI had a fab time at the EIBF but I was flabbergasted by the basic nature of some of the questions I was asked by the people who attended my talk. I\'m not sure if I helped a single one of them, to be honest.  Will I give up trying to? Nope.\n\nThere\'s a great big underbelly to publishing which enables desperate writers to get into print, regardless of their talent or ability to write a good, commercial book. It\'s terribly sad; people spend a fortune on schemes like the BWA\'s latest, or on promoting their own self- or vanity-published books to little or no effect: people can\'t buy them because they\'re just not in the places most people buy their books from, and so all that effort is pretty much wasted.\n\nI\'ve been asked over and over why I care about this so much. There\'s a big part of me which hates to see writers ripped off in this way, regardless of how good or bad they are; and I hate to see the work of all the brilliant writers, agents and editors I know condemned as being \"trashy\" or \"elitist\". It\'s insulting, wrong, and ultimately pointless, and I think we all lose out as a result of it.\n\nGrrrr.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1633,6365,'Shaun Durham','shaundurham@btinternet.com','','135.196.235.230','2010-12-08 11:17:49','2010-12-08 11:17:49','David,\nAnother very useful - and sobering - post. I\'ve written three MSS so far. Two have been rejected via \'the traditional route\' (with some nice comments, which spurned me on), the third is going through the submission process and I am about to start a fourth. At no point have I parted with any money for advice (except for a ticket to Crimefest last year) and nor will I do so. If only more people would take Stephen King\'s advice - read a lot and write everyday - instead of handing over their hard earned cash.\nShaun',0,'1','','',0,0),(1634,6365,'Sally Zigmond','sallyzigmond@gmail.com','','82.152.255.173','2010-12-08 11:18:06','2010-12-08 11:18:06','Thank you, David, for your level-headed and reasoned contribution to this discussion.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1635,6365,'Simon Whaley','simon@simonwhaley.co.uk','http://www.simonwhaley.co.uk','81.154.239.124','2010-12-08 11:19:10','2010-12-08 11:19:10','I don\'t think it helps that today, society wants instant gratification. We write a book, we want an agent to take us on at the first asking and a publisher to accept on the first submission, so any means that helps us to do this, such as the Brit Awards, is perceived by some to be a good thing.\n\nAt a literary festival, I got chatting to an editor from Penguin, who said that in the \'old days\', a publisher would take on a writer\'s first novel and support them through several more novels as they learned their craft and built up an audience. By book seven, most authors had achieved this and began reaping rewards for the publishers. Sadly, the commercial world we live in means that publishers need our first novels to be book seven. But what many writers haven\'t realized is that they still need to write seven novels (or at least more than one) in order to learn their craft. We still have to do our apprenticeship, but the fast-paced world we live in doesn\'t encourage us to do so.\n\nI think there are a lot of people out there who like the idea of \'being a writer\' but don\'t actually like the idea of \'writing\'. Yet it is only by writing that we learn our craft.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1636,6365,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-08 11:24:44','2010-12-08 11:24:44','I think books about writing and large scale events where would-be writers can talk to a range of different professionals make excellent sense and should happen more often. Like you I\'ve been astonished by the basic ignorance of so many people who want to be published but don\'t want to learn the most fundamental lessons that are available for free for anyone willing to listen. Or, in some cases, even to read books at all, in spite of the fact they seem to want to write one.',0,'1','','',1632,0),(1637,6365,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-08 11:26:16','2010-12-08 11:26:16','Very sensible. As I said above I think large scale writing events are excellent sources of advice from a range of perspectives. The one teaching thing I still do is a stint at CraftFest which is part of Thrillerfest in New York next July.',0,'1','','',1633,0),(1638,6365,'Emma Darwin','emmadarwin@gmail.com','http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/','92.27.252.155','2010-12-08 11:38:54','2010-12-08 11:38:54','Good post. I\'m not involved with the BWA thing - turned down the offer to judge the comp last year - although I know large numbers of people who are, for good and ill.\n\nIn the end you can only be the writer you\'re wired to be. But I think writing can be taught to the extent that painting or choreography or writing music can be taught; of course it\'s possible to do it all on your own with a big library and a pile of paper, but help from outside - paid or free - can make the learning quicker and stronger. For some reason the default assumption seems to be that painters and composers and choreographers need training - lots of it - but writers don\'t. In fact we do, it\'s just that the ways we get it have, historically and for complicated reasons, been more ad hoc and informal. But writers have sought out mentors, examples, heroes and fellows since the beginning of time, and to some extent the creative writing industry is only formalising that into a shape more like that which the other arts have had for centuries. The fact that Southey ought to roast in Hell for having told Charlotte Bronte that her writing would serve nicely to fill in her time until she could reach her proper job of wife and mother, doesn\'t negate that: there has always been bad advice/help on offer, as well as good, and the problem of telling one from the other has always been with us too.\n\nAnyone can learn a bit more craft, and a teacher can help with that. And a good teacher can also help with the other end of the business, which is process: how to find and develop the material which you write with. It\'s undoubtedly true that the vast majority of people who try to write a novel - and maybe pay for help with that in some form or another - won\'t get it published. Most of them won\'t get anything published (although the novel is so much the dominant form for creative writing these days that often it\'s more that they don\'t realise it\'s not the form for them...). But human creativity is a good thing, of itself, regardless of the outcome, and I\'m not going to tell someone that they shouldn\'t be writing, and refuse to help them with their writing, because I think they\'ll never get anywhere. I will happily - frequently do - tell them that in my opinion they\'ve got a very great deal of work yet to do before reaching the kind of goal they\'re hoping for.\n\nSo I\'m not sure it goes without saying that any money such a writer spends is wasted, AS LONG AS they weren\'t lured into spending it by promises which can\'t be fulfilled (of publication by a \"top publisher\" for example...). The difficulty I would say, as someone who teaches and mentors writers, (and thanks a Masters for getting her own debut novel into contract-gaining shape), is to offer what they\'re usually asking for - help to become a good enough writer to get published - without promising that they will get published. I can only do my best with the loudest, most honest caveats I can manage, and all the other teachers/mentors/editorial-report-writers and so on that I know do the same. Some people just don\'t hear those caveats, though: the \"you can do anything you want to if you try hard enough\" industry has a lot to answer for, because in the book trade, at least, it just ain\'t as simple as that.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1639,6365,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-08 11:45:11','2010-12-08 11:45:11','I agree - the \'writing can\'t be taught\' argument will run and run. It\'s unprovable one way or the other. You either go with it or not. I certainly agree that people can be taught to <em>think </em>about writing. And that craft is important and capable of being learned. But ultimately I tend to feel that writing is a solitary pursuit, a battle that is won or lost inside your own head.',0,'1','','',1638,0),(1640,6365,'Trevor Belshaw','trevor@trevorbelshaw.com','http://www.trevorbelshaw.com','90.194.222.135','2010-12-08 12:05:17','2010-12-08 12:05:17','A new way of publishing? Hmm, while the old way has many faults, I think the basic idea that a publisher pays the author for their work is still the way to go. If it\'s the other way round then it\'s vanity publishing, no matter how you dress it up.',0,'1','','',1635,0),(1641,6365,'Emma Darwin','emmadarwin@gmail.com','http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/','92.27.252.155','2010-12-08 12:11:04','2010-12-08 12:11:04','Certainly no one can write your writing for you: it\'s your battle. But a bit of help from the armourers and fencing masters can help. Just as long as you don\'t hand over a big bag of ducats to a master who promises that his teaching will guarantee that your enemy will die. Which seems to be what the BWA are guaranteeing...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1642,6365,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.31.253.244','2010-12-08 13:02:09','2010-12-08 13:02:09','Is there a particular book related to craft that you would recommend?',0,'1','','',1639,0),(1643,6365,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.138.136','2010-12-08 13:03:25','2010-12-08 13:03:25','Good question... been a while since I looked at any frankly. The Stephen King always gets good mentions.',0,'1','','',1642,0),(1644,6365,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-12-08 13:48:16','2010-12-08 13:48:16','The money should always roll the author. Enough said there.\n\nAs a teacher, I believe certain aspects of writing can be taught. However, I don\'t believe one can teach someone to be a storyteller. I taught dance for over 20 years. In that time period I saw only a handful of students with \"natural\" talent. They had to learn technique if they were going to make that natural talent into something spectacular. The best way to study the craft is to read...and read...and read.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1645,6365,'Allison Brennan','allison@allisonbrennan.com','http://www.allisonbrennan.com','173.85.203.159','2010-12-08 22:45:02','2010-12-08 22:45:02','I love Stephen King\'s book ON WRITING. Not so much a writing book--he\'s not going to tell you how to do it--but definitely inspiring.\n\nMy favorite (before I published) was SELF-EDITING FOR FICTION WRITERS which really helped me with editing my manuscripts to get them in the best possible shape. Again, it won\'t teach you how to write, but it will help edit. I also, personally, love Vogler\'s THE WRITER\'S JOURNEY which is all about story and the hero\'s journey. Good stuff.',0,'1','','',1642,0),(1646,6365,'Christine Stanley','christinestanleyuk@hotmail.com','','122.58.78.241','2010-12-09 00:29:27','2010-12-09 00:29:27','I\'m new to blogging and have been astonished at the number of writers\' sites offering advice to writers. It\'s quite interesting to compare sites by visual artists. They\'re much more engaged with putting their own work out there and describing their creative motivation and processes than in outright teaching of wannabe artists. They\'re not consumed by the selling process. The difference being that painting, photography, sculpture, etc offer instant gratification... you create something and it\'s there for all to see and appraise... and hopefully purchase. They don\'t have to scale the hurdle of attracting an agent and a publisher before their work reaches the general public.  No one expects them to be hung in a \'proper\' gallery...  before they\'re worth looking at and available for purchase.  Artists can sell work at all levels. The purchasing public come with pockets in all sizes.  But even the most dumbed down of writing  has hurdles to scale before it reaches the reading public. There\'s an investment of time involved in reading a manuscript, and it seems that only other writers understand this... so we pass bits of writing back and forth to each other in blogs and websites because any acknowledgement is better than none at all. And we jolly each other along in an effort to convince ourselves that what we\'re doing is worthwhile, on a personal level, if nothing else.\n\nMarketing is a very different skill from writing and quite at odds with the creative process.  And now, I think I\'m going off to do some painting. I can hang them along my garden fence.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1647,6365,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.31.253.244','2010-12-09 04:55:40','2010-12-09 04:55:40','Allison, thank you.  I\'m familiar with King\'s book. I will check out Volger\'s.\n\nHe sounds like he may have his basis in a book I found years ago, not at all about writing, but one that is the heart and soul of story, Joseph Campbell\'s  \"Hero with a Thousand Faces.\"\n\nAgain, thank you for your suggestion. I look forward to checking it out.',0,'1','','',1645,0),(1648,6367,'BJ Muntain','bjmuntain@sasktel.net','','142.165.96.218','2010-12-08 12:40:43','2010-12-08 12:40:43','I just recently bought a Logitech wireless wave keyboard/mouse set. I love it. Very quiet, and even easier to hook up than its predecessor.\n\nI need the ergonomic keyboards because I wrecked my wrists on the old flat keyboards back in the 80s. This one is my favorite so far.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1649,6367,'Avro','brianmillson@gmail.com','','90.210.31.43','2010-12-08 18:26:59','2010-12-08 18:26:59','My favourite keyboard of all is the Matias Tactile 3 Keyboard from Canada.  It has mechanical switches and makes a lovely clickety clack sound.  Good tactile feel and the keys are laser etched with the alternative keys.  It isn\'t cheap at $150, but IMHO it is the best.\n\nHere is a review from David Sparks.\n\nhttp://www.macsparky.com/blog/2010/11/15/review-matias-tactile-3-keyboard.html',0,'1','','',0,0),(1650,6367,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.22.24','2010-12-08 19:56:53','2010-12-08 19:56:53','Although I\'m not a writer, but I do write a lot of stuff both paid and free. So, I need a comfortable laptop. Unfortunately, I have never been able to own a comfortable keyboard ever since I bought a PC. :( See this: http://aisjournal.com/2010/11/28/bad-luck-with-keyboard/ Don\'t know why I can\'t figure out the best one in the market although I use \'em in the offices.\n\nBy the way, your keyboard looks much like mine (ultra-soft, laptop-like). Do you feel comfortable with these half-deep keys? I prefer keys that need be pressed, not pressed when touched like my new one. :(',0,'1','','',0,0),(1651,6367,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.22.24','2010-12-08 19:58:38','2010-12-08 19:58:38','I prefer the one Avro has linked to (the keys).',0,'1','','',1650,0),(1652,6367,'JRP','jr_parsons@verizon.net','','98.119.4.205','2010-12-31 19:59:38','2010-12-31 19:59:38','Intend to look at the keyboard since I spend most of the day on one. Quick question: Since you don\'t use your Mac any longer, I assume the monitor in the pic is hooked up to a Windows machine?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1653,6367,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.83.248','2010-12-31 21:59:34','2010-12-31 21:59:34','The keyboard is Windows only at the moment',0,'1','','',1652,0),(1654,6372,'Vermonter 17032','szeoli@shoreham.net','','208.65.160.148','2010-12-09 12:37:45','2010-12-09 12:37:45','This is an excellent point, David. A lot of people need to write as part of their livelihood, but most of us are not writing fiction. We write reports and plans and memos and e-mails. We write press releases, ad and catalog copy. We are writing for blogs and social media outlets. There is an element of creativity in this work, no doubt. But first and foremost this writing requires structure and clarity. I am unconvinced, as you are, that these skills will be better learned through \"creative\" writing at a young age.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1655,6372,'Vermonter 17032','szeoli@shoreham.net','','208.65.160.148','2010-12-09 12:41:39','2010-12-09 12:41:39','And, just a quick follow-up to my previous comment: What children should NOT be taught is that writing fictional stories is more fun than writing non-fiction. Writing fiction is hard and precarious work... WORK. Writing an essay about an historical figure or event is fun, because you learn something new about history at the same time!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1656,6372,'Writing first, creativity second &laquo; keightley.net','','http://keightley.net/blog/?p=1820','174.123.112.162','2010-12-12 09:44:30','2010-12-12 09:44:30','[...] Writing first, creativity second [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1657,6372,'Missing Ingredients &laquo; Liquid Mirage','','http://liquidmirage.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/missing-ingredients/','76.74.248.184','2010-12-20 02:41:26','2010-12-20 02:41:26','[...] for the important stuff.  Author David Hewson posted a wonderful blog over at his site.  David is a mystery writer whose work I was introduced to by one of my old [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1658,6375,'Gary: Finding The Missing Ingredients &laquo; Zombie Cat Productions','','http://www.zombiecatproductions.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/?p=2231','74.205.61.228','2010-12-18 01:24:01','2010-12-18 01:24:01','[...] for the important stuff. Author David Hewson posted a wonderful blog over at his site. David is a mystery writer whose work I was introduced to by one of my old college [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1800,160,'Aaron','a2meade@hotmail.com','','','2009-10-16 01:38:00','2009-10-16 01:38:00','Big fan from amaerica David. I love the nic Costa series! Keep em comin, because i sure as hell will keep reading them. I feel like i know Nic ,peroni and falconie like friends.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):20172429','',0,0),(1659,6452,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.Pacific-Coast-Highway-Travel.com','174.18.230.206','2010-12-13 15:17:49','2010-12-13 15:17:49','I love the title. And do post if you know when the US edition is available. I did a search for Dead Men\'s Socks on the US Kindle store (I\'m in Arizona) and the book came up, in 3rd place after two pairs of socks. But it did say not available in the US yet, even though the publication date is today. Mind you, given Amazon\'s thoroughness I\'m sure I\'ll be reminded.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1660,6452,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.111.28','2010-12-13 15:21:36','2010-12-13 15:21:36','I hope it will only be a matter of days, Mike. There\'s no reason why it shouldn\'t be there now as far as I\'m concerned. But there are mysterious ways to be navigated betwixt publisher and Amazon as far as my dim brain understands it.\nAm slightly amazed it came up on the search at all - it only went on the system a couple of hours ago I believe.',0,'1','','',1659,0),(1661,6452,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.8.254','2010-12-13 16:37:41','2010-12-13 16:37:41','Dear David, I\'m always curious to read your story but I can\'t buy them as there is no system for payment from Bangladesh. Moreover, I\'m not so good in English so I might end up understanding nothing of your storybook. Therefore, I was wondering if you published any short story anywhere on the web that I can read without purchasing.\n\nThanks in advance. The name \"Dead Men\'s Socks\" is pretty scary. The cover is scary as well. I wish I could read that. :(',0,'1','','',0,0),(1662,6452,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.111.28','2010-12-13 16:39:13','2010-12-13 16:39:13','No way to do that other than giving my work away to everyone I\'m afraid. There may be some freebie promotions coming up. But not as a general rule.',0,'1','','',1661,0),(1663,6452,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.Pacific-Coast-Highway-Travel.com','174.18.230.206','2010-12-13 22:28:50','2010-12-13 22:28:50','Thanks, David. Hopefully soon you will be there without being behind two pairs of socks. And today\'s systems are scarily quick. I uploaded my own new collection of travel writing onto Smashwords, and within two minutes I received a Google Alert about the page.',0,'1','','',1660,0),(1664,6452,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.Pacific-Coast-Highway-Travel.com','174.18.230.206','2010-12-13 22:33:08','2010-12-13 22:33:08','PS  Just searched again and you have now disappeared. I should point out that what comes up are now three pairs of Grateful Dead socks. I will keep trying.',0,'1','','',1660,0),(1665,6452,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','174.18.230.206','2010-12-22 01:35:32','2010-12-22 01:35:32','Just checked the US Kindle store again. Dead Men\'s Socks does now come up in the search results but with a message saying it\'s not available to customers from the United States. Any day now....',0,'1','','',0,0),(1666,6452,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.243.179','2010-12-22 07:58:23','2010-12-22 07:58:23','Thanks Mike. I\'ve asked my publisher to investigate again. They say it should be available. I just have to wait for them and hope they can fix it. Obviously won\'t be till the new year now I imagine. Very frustrating.',0,'1','','',1664,0),(1667,6460,'Gerald Hornsby','geraldswriting@gmail.com','http://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/','2.96.123.248','2010-12-18 16:12:02','2010-12-18 16:12:02','I know exactly what you mean, David. I think the change of media is the important thing. I\'ve just tried (hard) to work out / write, why this is. I can\'t put my finger on it, but I can\'t ever see any single electronic device offering that same \'experience\' as paper and a pen.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1668,6460,'Brenda Sedore','author@brendasedore.com','http://brendasedore.wordpress.com','96.50.134.208','2010-12-18 19:41:48','2010-12-18 19:41:48','There\'s one point you make that I\'d like to emphasize. You talked about the different experience of seeing the words on paper, especially if you print it out like a paperback. That\'s the important point here. If you only edit on the screen, there are things you can miss. Viewing the manuscript from several different formats will help to make sure you\'re not missing anything important. So, even if the iPad had a great commenting program, I still think at least one pass with a paper edit is needed. And that\'s coming from an author who will do everything possible on my Mac Pro or my iPad. :) Really good post, thanks.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1669,6460,'Here we go again&#8230; &laquo; Write in the Midwest','','http://diannagraveman.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/here-we-go-again/','76.74.254.69','2011-01-01 00:03:30','2011-01-01 00:03:30','[...] When it comes to revision, paper wins (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1670,6474,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','174.18.230.206','2010-12-19 16:45:35','2010-12-19 16:45:35','Thanks, David. It\'s comforting to know that even seasoned pros like you face these same problems and decisions.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1671,6474,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.139.203','2010-12-19 16:46:14','2010-12-19 16:46:14','They\'re only problems if you ignore them...',0,'1','','',1670,0),(1672,6474,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.31.250.62','2010-12-19 17:52:18','2010-12-19 17:52:18','Your decision sounds like freedom to me.  The thought of 90,000 more words that would become more forced than formed and even more tangled is exhausting to think about.  Whew. Sounds like you dodged a bullet.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1673,6474,'Christy','wildinca@gmail.com','','173.28.44.204','2010-12-19 21:03:21','2010-12-19 21:03:21','Thank you.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1674,6474,'Ruth Harris','rca.harris@gmail.com','','71.190.138.26','2010-12-20 14:14:57','2010-12-20 14:14:57','It\'s not the writing.  It\'s the rewriting.  IME revision (lots and lots and lots) of revision is the name of the game.  To find the voice, the character that comes alive, the description that brings the reader into the scene, the out line at the end of a chapter that keeps the reader turning pages, the rhythm and resolution of the plot...it all matters and only (very, very) rarely does it come easily much less in a first draft.\nThe amount of work and thought you put into a few paragraphs does not surprise me at all.  In fact, it seems familiar.  Thanks so much for the post...when I feel stranded and clueless, I\'ll reread it and try to remember that I am not alone.\nRuth Harris\nauthor of NYTimes bestseller\n<a href=\"http://amzn.to/ft97O7\" rel=\"nofollow\">Husbands And Lovers</a>',0,'1','','',0,0),(1675,6474,'Martina Dotson','martinadotson@gmail.com','http://martinadotson.co.cc/','195.228.227.91','2010-12-23 22:11:13','2010-12-23 22:11:13','Thanks, David. It\'s comforting to know that even seasoned pros like you face these same problems and decisions.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1676,6483,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.76','2010-12-20 14:08:14','2010-12-20 14:08:14','Whoa! 35,000 to less than 1,000 word? :-o You have a backup of those removed words don\'t you? What if you forget any part of them (assuming that you\'re gonna use them again as said in the 5th paragraph)?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1677,6483,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','174.18.230.206','2010-12-20 15:49:42','2010-12-20 15:49:42','Very interesting, David. Another example is the music of the Beatles. If you listen to them record take after take of one song, you discover how hard they worked on them, how sometimes they were crap, how the \'best\' take they decided to release could just as easily be the 22nd take as the 2nd take (or combine bits of different takes). And one of the best bootleg CDs I\'ve got is of Dylan recording Like a Rolling Stone. Same thing, except here he and the band build up to the take that was actually released. It\'s such a fascinating process that the critic Greg Marcus even wrote a book about this one bootleg CD.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1678,6483,'Bob Mayer','jtauthorrs@gmail.com','http://writeitforward.wordpress.com','76.28.203.22','2010-12-20 18:17:13','2010-12-20 18:17:13','I agree on dumping something that isn\'t clicking.  I had a 126,000 word manuscript.  I had people read it and the overall feedback was positive.  But I noted the same negative comments and, more importantly, trusted my gut instinct.  I gutted the book, cutting 26,000 words, changing it from a thriller to a suspense novel (big difference between two genres).  I still have more rewriting to do on a character that just didn\'t work.  It took me a long time, but I never send something in to an agent or editor until I no longer have that tingling feeling in my gut telling me something isn\'t right.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1679,6483,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.31.250.62','2010-12-20 18:17:46','2010-12-20 18:17:46','Clearly, professional writers operate on a different premise than those of us who hope to be.\n\nQuantity is not an issue beyond standard practice for the genre in play. A self-imposed quality is.\n\nI\'m going to venture a guess. David spends little time worrying about where he will find his next word. He spends little time worrying about where he will find his next 10,000 words.\n\nHe spends his energy telling the best story he can. Story tellers find the words. Or, maybe the words find the story teller that is looking for them.  My guess, before you are a professional writer of fiction you will be a story teller. I\'m just guessing here.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1680,6483,'Mia Marlowe','miamarlowe@hotmail.com','http://www.miamarlowe.com','98.217.15.85','2010-12-20 18:21:20','2010-12-20 18:21:20','You\'re absolutely right and the parallel about musicians is a valid one. Mozart was an anomaly. He composed entirely in his head and by the time he got around to writing down his work, it was like taking dictation. Every note was perfected before it was committed to paper in his brilliant mind.\n\nHowever, Beethoven, who was no less a genius, began his work with embarrassingly awful themes which he painstakingly reworked (and he was kind enough to leave reams of notebooks with his scratchings that detailed his process) into the glorious music we know him for today.\n\nWriters have to be strong enough to be willing to destroy their work without pity. That\'s the only way the best of what we have to say will be heard.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1681,6527,'Robyn Smith','robynls@gmail.com','http://www.getjealous.com/robynls','109.117.179.213','2010-12-21 09:41:05','2010-12-21 09:41:05','You are always looking for new ways to stretch the technology. You make a computing science teacher\'s heart sing!\n\nCollaborative project? Does this mean we can expect a new addition to the Chopin Manuscript series?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1682,6527,'Mike Blake','mike.blakeuk@btinternet.com','','86.159.71.159','2010-12-21 12:06:34','2010-12-21 12:06:34','A problem which has vexed me, now solved. Thanks for this - I too had become lost in the colours and lines, and given up on the idea.\n\nA question if I may - you posted a piece on OneNote I found very interesting, but I cannot add a comment? I just know the programme is what I need for research for books and magazine articles but I cannot \'break into it\'. Did you find a book or tutorial that helped?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1683,6527,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.243.179','2010-12-21 12:23:16','2010-12-21 12:23:16','No  - Just looked at some tutorials on the MS  web site for OneNote. Best not to try anything too fancy with it and just regard the thing as a digital notebook.',0,'1','','',1682,0),(1684,6527,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.243.179','2010-12-21 12:48:08','2010-12-21 12:48:08','Secret right now I\'m afraid... but not it\'s not another Chopin',0,'1','','',1681,0),(1685,6527,'Natalie Colgate','nataliecolgate@eclecticnoesis.com','http://www.eclecticnoesis.com','87.194.162.108','2010-12-21 16:22:16','2010-12-21 16:22:16','Brilliant tip! I\'ve just tested it out and it works beautifully. Thanks for sharing.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1686,6527,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.243.179','2010-12-21 16:24:17','2010-12-21 16:24:17','The one thing I\'ve spotted is that if you have a lot of revisions the windows can get out of sync because the pages aren\'t the same length. Just unclick the sync option, line them up again, click reset and then sync again.',0,'1','','',1685,0),(1687,6527,'Excellent Word Editing Tip | Eclectic Noesis &#8211; write, copy edit, proofread','','http://www.eclecticnoesis.com/excellent-word-editing-tip/','87.194.162.108','2010-12-21 16:34:49','2010-12-21 16:34:49','[...] his full post on davidhewson.com   This entry was posted in Writing and Language. Bookmark the permalink.     &larr; Correcting [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1688,6535,'Ian','ian@iansidden.com','','24.229.165.13','2010-12-21 13:16:39','2010-12-21 13:16:39','You can actually create notebook stacks in Evernote 4 for Windows. What the Windows client lacks that the Mac version has is easy notebook sharing. To create a stack all you need to do is drag one notebook on top of another. A generic name like \"Notebook Stack\" will appear with the notebooks underneath.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1689,6535,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.243.179','2010-12-21 13:17:37','2010-12-21 13:17:37','Aha - well spotted. They do all still come out as flat files on my iPad and phone unfortunately',0,'1','','',1688,0),(1690,6535,'Shirley','shirls.email@gmail.com','','125.168.38.137','2010-12-25 08:08:37','2010-12-25 08:08:37','Hi David.  I\'m new to your blog and have been reading some of your posts with great interest.....so much so that I\'m about to take the plunge and cross over to Mac and Scrivener 2 (quite a financial committment but Scrivener looks to be worth it - yes I have noticed the beta version for Windows, but Scrivener 2 has such wonderful features)\n\nAnyway I\'m just curious as to which is the dominant platform for you these days.  Even though you take notes in OneNote do you still use Scrivener on the Mac to write with ? If so how do you manage the information on 2 different platforms ?\n\nThanks\nShirley',0,'1','','',0,0),(1691,6535,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.243.179','2010-12-25 08:18:36','2010-12-25 08:18:36','Well I wouldn\'t spend all that money just on my say so. The Windows beta is not as advanced as Scrivener 2 but it still looks very good. Whenever I speak at writing schools I find most would-be writers use Windows which is what you\'d expect - it\'s far and away the most common OS. Among professional writers I suspect the Mac is more common but still a minority. But I don\'y know for sure.\n\nAs I say elsewhere here on Windows I\'d use OneNote and on the Mac Evernote. But Evernote works on Mac and Windows and phones and tablets too. So if you want to chop and change it would be ideal. If the current project continues on Scrivener 2 on the Mac that side of things will move to Evernote (which isn\'t as good as OneNote but still pretty useful).',0,'1','','',1690,0),(1692,6535,'JRP','jr_parsons@verizon.net','','98.119.4.205','2010-12-31 21:29:06','2010-12-31 21:29:06','Interested in Evernote vs OneNote. Aside from the issue of which platform, Mac or Windows, one prefers,  do you ever hesitate to store your research, early drafts, etc., in the cloud, i.e., Evernote? Are you comfortable with privacy and security for material upon which your income is based?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1693,6535,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.83.248','2010-12-31 22:00:48','2010-12-31 22:00:48','I don\'t keep anything but basic info on Evernote - no original writing. Though I\'ve no reason to think that would be jeopardised. OneNote is better but your are confined to Windows.',0,'1','','',1692,0),(1694,6543,'Lisa','lisa@llowens.com','http://llowens.blogspot.com','75.165.40.252','2010-12-23 16:17:50','2010-12-23 16:17:50','Thanks for the post. I\'m just getting into writing with Scrivener, and it\'s great to consider all the ways I might be able to use it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1695,6549,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.8.127','2010-12-24 19:07:30','2010-12-24 19:07:30','I personally love WordPress self-hosted because that makes me independent to whatever I do. It\'s incredibly easy to build an awesome site no matter you have creativity or not. I can start from scratch or choose from thousands of amazing themes and add functions by my own to the theme files. That\'s why I choose WordPress for my other sites.\n\nOn the other hand, WordPress.com is awesome for those who don\'t want to mess with any kind of technical stuff but just focus on the content. For personal blogging, I don\'t think there is anything better than WordPress.com.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1696,6552,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.8.127','2010-12-24 19:08:47','2010-12-24 19:08:47','I still use Microsoft Word 2007 at home and 2003/xp at office (news agency). I\'m happy with them . I heard Word \'10 is a big improvement, but I don\'t need anymore features that\'s why I\'m not upgrading.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1697,6556,'Avro','brianmillson@gmail.com','','90.197.192.137','2010-12-24 11:06:34','2010-12-24 11:06:34','I thought Scrivener just couldn\'t get better.  It did.  :-)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1698,6561,'Mike Snelgrove','michaelhsnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','86.177.82.131','2010-12-24 17:07:37','2010-12-24 17:07:37','(In seasonal spirit) Oh, yes you will!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1699,6561,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.243.179','2010-12-24 21:01:02','2010-12-24 21:01:02','Rats -- I fear you\'re right',0,'1','','',1698,0),(1700,6561,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','74.115.160.161','2010-12-27 19:17:37','2010-12-27 19:17:37','David,\n\nYou can\'t buy one of these because they are US-only at the moment. But take a look anyway:\nhttp://www.zagg.com/accessories/zaggmate.php',0,'1','','',0,0),(1701,6561,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','217.41.234.51','2010-12-27 19:25:29','2010-12-27 19:25:29','Can\'t really see the ipad as a serious writing machine until it can handle rich text',0,'1','','',1700,0),(1702,6581,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-12-29 15:07:51','2010-12-29 15:07:51','Interesting. I do miss OneNote when I was working on a PC. I like Scrivener, but since dedicated writing this one book on Scrivener, I have found one flaw in it for me. Not a big one, but big enough I might (for the next book) go back to word and now try this Evernote thing you speak of. Each book I end up doing something a little a little different. I think you hit the nail on the head with me regarding the single stumbling block I have with Scrivener--keeping left brain and right brain activities divided. I think that\'s why using Word, Excel, OneNote and a whiteboard worked so well for me in the past. But its good to try new things. Makes us better writers. Speaking of which, I have only fifteen minutes left of my break before I must go back to work.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1703,6581,'Frank McPherson','frank.mcpherson@gmail.com','http://thinkmobile.com','68.43.208.251','2010-12-29 15:23:32','2010-12-29 15:23:32','To search for all To-do check boxes in all notes within a notebook, or All Notes if you select that option, click Attributes, Contains, To-do items. You will see that you can also just see unfinished to-do items or finished to-do items.\n\nThat being said, your approach to having a separate notebook for to-do items makes it easier to find them in one spot.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1704,6581,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.83.248','2010-12-29 15:28:22','2010-12-29 15:28:22','Thanks for that. I think if to do and tags are to be really useful though you need to be able to save the search so you say, \'Show me all my incomplete tasks\', say. Without having to search for them. OneNote does this rather well.\n\nBut I agree - a separate to do notebook probably makes simple sense.',0,'1','','',1703,0),(1705,6581,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.83.248','2010-12-29 15:29:31','2010-12-29 15:29:31','I\'m currently trying Scrivener for the present project again. I just can\'t keep research in the same file as the book.It feels all wrong. Right now I have Evernote open in my MB Pro and Scrivener in full screen on my Cinema Display. Makes sense to me.',0,'1','','',1702,0),(1706,6581,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','87.114.19.190','2010-12-30 10:34:19','2010-12-30 10:34:19','Sorry to be picky David. Last word of first sentence, second paragraph. Shouldn\'t that be MacJournal, or am I missing the obvious?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1707,6581,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.83.248','2010-12-30 10:43:14','2010-12-30 10:43:14','Oops should read MacJournal/OneNote. Will correct',0,'1','','',1706,0),(1708,6581,'JRP','jr_parsons@verizon.net','','98.119.4.205','2010-12-31 21:42:22','2010-12-31 21:42:22','Seems like some of your book diary entries related to plot or character elements could be kept as a document or project note in Scrivener 2. Is there a reason you choose not to do so or do you use both book diary and Scrivener for this purpose?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1709,6581,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.83.248','2010-12-31 22:01:13','2010-12-31 22:01:13','Lots of articles here about why I don\'t mix left brain with right brain - doesn\'t work for me.',0,'1','','',1708,0),(1710,6581,'JRP','jr_parsons@verizon.net','','98.119.4.205','2010-12-31 23:30:38','2010-12-31 23:30:38','Yes, I\'ve read many of your posts. So the value you find in Scrivener then is simply the ability to manage small bits of content, multiple POV material, and perhaps some of the outlining capabilities? I remember posts re linear stories working better in Word for you, research being kept in OneNote, Evernote, etc., and notes such as \"need to check foreshadowing on this bit\" kept outside of Scrivener per the above and other posts.',0,'1','','',1709,0),(1711,6599,'Jane Smith','hprw@tesco.net','http://howpublishingreallyworks.com','95.210.123.181','2011-01-03 09:22:07','2011-01-03 09:22:07','A fabulous post as usual, David. Writing is all about getting the words down.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1712,6599,'Gerald Hornsby','geraldswriting@gmail.com','http://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/','2.96.123.248','2011-01-03 09:35:46','2011-01-03 09:35:46','I agree too. Too many aspiring authors get wrapped up in \"what word processing software do you, Mr. Successful Writer, use?\" Or worse still, \"what novel writing software do you use?\" As you say, if only they could find the <i>right</i> software, then all their writing troubles would be over.\n\nAs Jane says, get the words down however you can. Writing isn\'t about software, it\'s about writing.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1713,6599,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2011-01-03 13:35:14','2011-01-03 13:35:14','Being the techno geek that I am, I love to try new shinny things, but as David always reminds....writing is what is important. For me, the key is organizing the way my brain wants to organize. Scrivener has given me that freedom more so than a combo of word, excel and a corkboard. One thing I have to do is keep a running outline, which I do in excel.\n\nI don\'t like templates. They make my head hurt. It feels like I\'m trying to stick a square peg into a round hole. I like to create from scratch and even though Scrivener has templates, I created my own for current WIP. I\'m sure the next WIP will be a little different.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1714,6599,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','85.210.88.21','2011-01-03 15:34:02','2011-01-03 15:34:02','Over the break there was an episode in \"Electric Ink\", a BBC Radio 4 satirical comedy series by Alistair Beaton about the newspaper industry, in which a (fictitious) famous author was revealed as using a novel-writing programme. Supposedly he had been \"blocked\", and the repetition of patterns in his use of adjectives gave his computer- assisted composition away... Unrealistic perhaps, but one day it will happen. Personally I hate software that bosses you around (which Scrivener of course does not), and would only consider using templates to the extent of presentation for the better acceptance by agents and publishers. I\'ve met several would-be writers for whom the software and/or templates are almost all. A category error, it seems to me.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1715,6599,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.83.248','2011-01-03 15:55:48','2011-01-03 15:55:48','I may be thick here but I honestly don\'t know what a template for a simple word processor would actually do. A book is just headings and body text. It\'s different with Scrivener which does a lot more than just handle linear text. But with Word or Pages I just write.',0,'1','','',1714,0),(1716,6600,'Lev Parikian','levparikian@mac.com','http://www.runnythoughts.com','78.105.68.122','2011-01-04 11:42:18','2011-01-04 11:42:18','Thank you. Extremely useful knowledge for a Scrivener newbie.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1717,6600,'Martin McCallion','martin@devilgate.org','http://devilgate.org/blog/','81.86.168.132','2011-01-04 12:21:42','2011-01-04 12:21:42','Hi, I currently keep my Scrivener project files in Dropbox folders (rather than copying them to Dropbox).  Is it better not to do that, then?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1718,6600,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.112.81','2011-01-04 12:29:59','2011-01-04 12:29:59','There\'s a long-running thread on the Scrivener forum on this subject, much of it from people better qualified than I am. The consensus tends to be that it\'s a bit risky just to drop a Scriv file into any network folder.\n\nhttp://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=5295\n\nIf all the different bits don\'t sync right you could be in for problems.',0,'1','','',1717,0),(1719,6600,'Mike','mamorrell@gmail.com','','166.70.222.177','2011-01-04 14:07:43','2011-01-04 14:07:43','Great idea! I recently lost my manuscript (luckily, only the first scene) due to a corrupted USB Drive. I am using a new thumb drive, but this will serve as the better safety net. I really am enjoying your posts. Just picked up the first Nic Costa and begin reading today. Signed....a New Fan!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1720,6600,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.112.81','2011-01-04 14:11:32','2011-01-04 14:11:32','Thank you! Thumb drives make me nervous for anything but backup frankly. If you do things this way you always have your last five versions even if someone nicks your computer.',0,'1','','',1719,0),(1721,6600,'Safe automatic backups with Scrivener | Philip Brewer','','http://www.philipbrewer.net/2011/01/04/safe-automatic-backups-with-scrivener/','173.236.133.146','2011-01-04 14:41:15','2011-01-04 14:41:15','[...] A great alternative to keeping manuscript files in your Dropbox (which seems slightly risky, even though there is a local copy as well as one in the cloud) while still getting the benefit of having an up-to-date copy in the cloud if you unexpectedly want one: Getting safe automatic backups with Scrivener. [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1722,6600,'Marc','marchongkong@gmail.com','http://onehaikuperday.wordpress.com/','112.118.71.204','2011-01-04 15:05:12','2011-01-04 15:05:12','Thank you, David for such a concise and so very useful tip. Happy New Year too. :)\n\nMarc.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1723,6600,'John Michlig','John@fullyarticulated.com','','173.89.59.187','2011-01-05 14:00:35','2011-01-05 14:00:35','I had a backup drive fry at the same time my (large) Scrivener file stored on DropBox corrupted and would not open - suddenly I had NO version of my work. HUGE disaster averted by the fact that the Scrivener update was secretly making backups for me that were nested deep in my library files.\n\nI learned my lesson, though - main file local, backup in the cloud.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1724,6600,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.112.81','2011-01-05 14:22:13','2011-01-05 14:22:13','I suspect you were a bit unlucky there. But it isn\'t really worth the risk, is it?',0,'1','','',1723,0),(1725,6600,'What is your Computer Backup Plan? | pakos.me','','http://pakos.me/2011/01/06/what-is-your-computer-backup-plan/','72.233.96.146','2011-01-06 14:03:45','2011-01-06 14:03:45','[...] Getting safe automatic backups with Scrivener (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(2319,7448,'Gerald Hornsby','geraldswriting@gmail.com','https://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/','92.24.234.150','2011-02-11 15:11:09','2011-02-11 15:11:09','Ah! Yes, the great foreign tax \'issue\'.\r\n\r\nAs a newbie ebook author, I followed the trail from Smashwords &amp; Kindle, back and forth. And yes, the double taxation agreement seems simplicity in itself. Only, for those two ebook outlets, to stop them taking 30% without a by-or-leave, you need to get a form and an IRS number and send it off to the US Embassy, and ... and ...\r\n\r\nOn the HMRC site, there are fulsome documents hidden away, telling you that it\'s possible to reclaim tax paid on foreign earnings, blah blah. For more information ... contact one of these independent tax advisors. It seems that you\'ve gone that one stage further, and you know what forms you need.\r\n\r\nBut - this is such a put-off for anyone new to writing and publishing. We have the opportunity to be earning many thousands of pounds in revenue (not me, obviously). But why should I work hard to sell my writing abroad when this situation is so difficult to resolve? And your post just fills me with horror - assuming I get to a similar stage to you, I have more delays and frustration to come.\r\n\r\nOver the weekend, I shall be writing to our local MP. He was very good when we had a disagreement with our telephone / broadband supplier, and everything was sorted out double-quick. I think I have nothing to lose by asking him the question.\r\n\r\nAnd don\'t get me started on the UK being 2nd class when it comes to indie publishing. Non-access to the US version of Amazon, features available to the US and not us, Barnes and Noble PubIt having a \"State your country\" option, and then saying \"Nah, buddy, you can\'t join us here.\"\r\n\r\nThanks for posting this information, David. I don\'t feel so bad now if even you have frustrations like this.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(1729,6632,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.17.135','2011-01-04 16:06:26','2011-01-04 16:06:26','A little bit confusion with English: what exactly is \"a month today\"? Does it mean a month later?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1730,6632,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.112.81','2011-01-04 16:08:54','2011-01-04 16:08:54','Yes it does',0,'1','','',1729,0),(1731,6646,'Gerald Hornsby','geraldswriting@gmail.com','http://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/','2.96.123.248','2011-01-05 12:32:49','2011-01-05 12:32:49','I love the way you enthuse about the software you like, David.\n\nOne small point about Scrivener - there doesn\'t appear to be any timeline feature in it. Just something so I see, visually, where things fit in with the characters. I love Writers\' Cafe for this (and only this, it should be said).',0,'1','','',0,0),(1732,6646,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.112.81','2011-01-05 13:21:38','2011-01-05 13:21:38','I don\'t know that one. But Storymill has a timeline feature and frankly I struggled with it. But I don\'t really feel the need for that particular tool.',0,'1','','',1731,0),(1733,6646,'Jerry Eaton','Jerry.eaton@Comcast.net','','67.190.155.204','2011-01-06 02:10:41','2011-01-06 02:10:41','Timelines are VERY easy in Tinderbox.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1734,6646,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.112.81','2011-01-06 08:02:27','2011-01-06 08:02:27','I never really got Tinderbox I\'m afraid. Even at the sale price of $199 it seems very expensive for a notes tool. Though I do know people who swear by it.',0,'1','','',1733,0),(1735,6646,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','74.115.160.176','2011-01-14 16:37:44','2011-01-14 16:37:44','I second Gerald Hornsby. I really appreciate these Scrivener insights.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1736,6666,'Gerald Hornsby','geraldswriting@gmail.com','https://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/','2.96.123.248','2011-01-06 12:48:54','2011-01-06 12:48:54','Hi David\n\nThanks for this. Storymill is interesting, but I think it goes too far for me. I can generally keep track of things that happen during a day. I looked at Aeontimeline (free to download), but again, it\'s too much of a constraint. My problem (and it\'s something that Writers Café solves for me) is relating scenes relative to each other. Sometime, the narrative isn\'t linear, and certain things have to happen before other things. When planning a story, it\'s good to be able to \'shift things around\'.\n\nFor me, the graphical option is far better, and it helps me get things straight in my story (and my head) before I carry on typing. But I realise this probably says more about me than writing <i>per se</i>.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1743,6734,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.8.71','2011-01-18 17:36:59','2011-01-18 17:36:59','That\'s an amazing feature your camera has. More useful for you since you forget the shooting location. :D I will be buying a camera this year, too. Or I\'ll be getting a prize soon. :D I\'m sure that won\'t have GPS. But I personally love Sweep Panaroma View of Sony Cybershot cameras.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1744,6745,'Jan','Laydilejur@hotmail.com','','78.177.113.177','2011-01-20 19:03:10','2011-01-20 19:03:10','This is so interesting - thank you for sharing it (did you not manage to sneak at least 1 photo of the inside though?)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1745,6745,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','93.65.191.154','2011-01-20 19:15:55','2011-01-20 19:15:55','The shots you see through the windows are from inside the corridor. We had two ladies following on close behind to make sure we took no more.',0,'1','','',1744,0),(1746,6745,'christine','christineneagle@btinternet.com','','86.128.204.239','2011-01-22 18:14:24','2011-01-22 18:14:24','A very insightful review David and thank you so much for it.   Can you be more specific about the closure dates?   We\'re hoping to visit Florence in May 2011 and had planned to pre-book a tour of the Vasari corridor.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1747,6745,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.8.131','2011-01-22 18:18:01','2011-01-22 18:18:01','I can\'t but I\'m sure if you go to the Florence Town link in the piece they can help.',0,'1','','',1746,0),(1748,6768,'Jual Casio Exilim EX-Z35 (BARU) | gratis pasang','','http://gratispasang.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/jual-casio-exilim-ex-z35-baru/','69.170.134.38','2011-01-26 07:00:43','2011-01-26 07:00:43','[...] Casio&#8217;s GPS camera gets the ultimate test (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1749,6779,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.8.144','2011-01-20 07:59:17','2011-01-20 07:59:17','The second picture is awesome!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1750,6779,'hemlock1981','mac_gyue@yahoo.com','http://hemlock1981.wordpress.com','192.250.173.20','2011-01-21 14:34:12','2011-01-21 14:34:12','Love the photos!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1751,6809,'Jeff Abbott','Jeff@jeffabbott.com','','166.205.13.175','2011-01-24 13:35:44','2011-01-24 13:35:44','I really think I need to give Scrivener another try. So much to like in it but the first time around I couldn\'t quite wrap my head around it all. Thanks for sharing this.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1752,6809,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.8.131','2011-01-24 13:42:32','2011-01-24 13:42:32','It takes an effort to get your head around it, Jeff, though V2 is easier I think. One of the problems is there are so many features and no one needs them all.\nI must say for story development it\'s wonderful. Must be... I\'m back on the Mac most of the time.',0,'1','','',1751,0),(1753,6809,'Revision and change tracking in Scrivener (via davidhewson.com) | Chicago Mac/PC Support','','http://chimac.net/2011/01/24/revision-and-change-tracking-in-scrivener-via-davidhewson-com/','74.200.244.85','2011-01-24 14:58:49','2011-01-24 14:58:49','[...] It&#039;s amazing how rapidly Scrivener has developed over the years. I recall back when I first started using it, perhaps in 2007/8, whining that it didn&#039;t have much in the way of revision facilities or change tracking. Keith, the developer, said very honestly that he didn&#039;t have the resources to do something as fancy as the very capable change tracking you see in Microsoft Word. How things have changed. Scrivener 2&#039;s approach to revisions and change &#8230; Read More [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1754,6809,'Ioa Petra\'ka','ioa@literatureandlatte.com','http://www.literatureandlatte.com/','76.115.44.78','2011-01-24 20:14:17','2011-01-24 20:14:17','One other thing we\'ve added for revision tracking are Revisions. :) These can be found in the Format menu, and basically all they do is colour your text according to the revision level. Red, blue, green, etc. The trick is they force that colour to be used for everything you do (except deletions, Snapshots will remain the best tool for that). You can then at a glance see all of the small things you\'ve changed, and when you are done with a revision, you can easily wipe them all out in that same menu. Additionally, the Find by Formatting feature in the Edit/Find menu has a revision search tool within it. You can search by revision \"pen\" in a step-by-step way, jumping through your entire book.\n\nThis feature is also great if you are working with a co-author.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1755,6809,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.8.131','2011-01-24 20:59:56','2011-01-24 20:59:56','Thanks Ioa. Will take a look. But I find lots of different colours within the active text quite distracting - I always turn that off in Word using the view selection feature. I can see how this could be really useful in some circumstances though.\nWhat I like about Snapshots is that the revise looks just like ordinary text, and the changes are seen in the sidebar.\nFantastic stuff all round though - well done!',0,'1','','',1754,0),(1756,6809,'Ioa Petra\'ka','ioa@literatureandlatte.com','http://www.literatureandlatte.com/','76.115.44.78','2011-01-25 19:32:19','2011-01-25 19:32:19','Good point. The default colours are quite bright, but they can be modified to be much more muted if you wish in the Appearance preference pane.\n\nOh, one other trick, you can drag snapshots to a split to view them in the full editor (read-only of course). When Option-dragged, they will be loaded into the split in comparison mode. I find it very useful to have both versions of the text side-by-side like that, especially since you can scroll the other split with keyboard shortcuts without switching to it with Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-Up and Down arrows.',0,'1','','',1755,0),(1757,6794,'Tweets that mention Entire Costa series optioned for TV | davidhewson.com -- Topsy.com','','http://topsy.com/davidhewson.com/2011/01/24/entire-costa-series-optioned-for-tv/?utm_source=pingback&amp;utm_campaign=L2','208.74.66.43','2011-01-24 15:47:58','2011-01-24 15:47:58','[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by David Hewson, Carole Benson, Keith B Walters, Worakarn Isaratham, Marshall Buckley and others. Marshall Buckley said: Congratulations! RT @david_hewson: Entire Costa series optioned for TV: http://wp.me/p11hIG-1LA [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1758,6794,'hemlock1981','mac_gyue@yahoo.com','http://hemlock1981.wordpress.com','192.250.173.20','2011-01-24 16:09:56','2011-01-24 16:09:56','That is excellent news.  I am happy for you.  I look forward to them as I am in the process of finishing up reading the first Nic Costa book.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1759,6794,'Christine','mercedes_team@yahoo.com','','93.81.147.75','2011-01-24 17:57:41','2011-01-24 17:57:41','David, my congratulations!!! It\'s really wonderful news!!! I\'m delighted to hear it. But on the other hand I\'m afraid that the images of Costa, Teresa, Peroni, Falcone and other characters created by a reader in his or her mind can be so to speak... distorted. Though I\'m sure you\'ll be the most exacting critic as far as the casting is concerned.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1760,6794,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.169.37.94','2011-01-24 17:59:08','2011-01-24 17:59:08','Oh brilliant news!\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1761,6794,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.113.8.131','2011-01-24 18:00:22','2011-01-24 18:00:22','Whoever gets cast people will say \'That’s not how I imagine them!\' But I\'m happy to say those decisions are some way off. Scripts have to be written first among other things.',0,'1','','',1759,0),(1762,6794,'Jaqueline','jaquelinestark@yahoo.de','','92.14.158.132','2011-01-24 20:38:08','2011-01-24 20:38:08','That\'s amazing. This message just made my day :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1763,6794,'Benita Brown','benita_brown@talktalk.net','http://www.benitabrown.com','89.240.97.144','2011-01-25 12:48:58','2011-01-25 12:48:58','Wonderful news!  Congratulations.  I\'ve only just discovered Nic Costa and am reading the first book.  Do you think you will have any say in the matter of casting?  I\'ve never had a whole book televised (let alone a series!) but when a short scene from one of my early books was used in a documentary I had no say whatsoever and it kept me awake at night agonizing over their choice of hero.  He simply wasn\'t how I\'d created him.  A more cynical novelist friend told me to be grateful for the money and let it go!\nBenita Brown',0,'1','','',0,0),(1764,6794,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.112.45.138','2011-01-25 13:07:46','2011-01-25 13:07:46','Television and cinema are very specific media - I\'d rather leave detail such as casting to the experts frankly. It\'s hard enough getting these things together as it is without some author saying, \'I don\'t like the look of him.\' And as I said elsewhere whoever gets cast people will say, \'That\'s not the way I saw it.\'',0,'1','','',1763,0),(1765,6794,'Sylvia Cheevers','scheevers@btinternet.com','','81.134.80.34','2011-01-25 13:51:52','2011-01-25 13:51:52','Congratulations!  Can\'t wait to see them....I\'ve recommended all the Nic Costa books to  loads of people and I always say this would be a fantastic tv series!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1766,6794,'Hewson\'s Costa Series Is Optioned for TV | Peroozal blog','','http://www.peroozal.com/blog/2011/01/25/hewson/','184.73.27.101','2011-01-25 18:01:33','2011-01-25 18:01:33','[...] Facebook posted some exciting author news yesterday regarding one of her favorite crime novelists David Hewson &#8211; author of the Costa series. In the spirit of keeping the social networking momentum going [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1818,159,'','catherine.winslow@wright.edu','','','2009-10-21 12:22:00','2009-10-21 12:22:00','I love your books.  Just discovered them and am currently reading the Season for the Dead.  Waiting for Dante\'s Numbers to come out in paperback.  I read that you were writing a novel called Bitter Mountain.  Any info?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):20694513','',0,0),(1820,159,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-21 14:34:00','2009-10-21 14:34:00','Glad you like the books. Bitter Mountain is a myth I\'m afraid. It was a holding title for an unwritten book which for some reason found its way into some online book systems. The next two books from me are the ones listed on the Nic Costa page, The Blue Demon (City of Fear US) next spring then The Fallen Angel a year later.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):20702299','',0,0),(1849,1370,'','gav@nextread.co.uk','','','2009-10-27 19:17:00','2009-10-27 19:17:00','I\'ve not read the comments on the Burke piece though did read the article. My view from the amateur review that I am (student newspaper, small press poetry mag, blog), is that reviews should give some idea of the book itself and what to expect from reading it and then say how well that was achieved. \n\nThat\'s easier with a book that\'s good but not awe making as you can make points that reflect what went well and what didn\'t. I must admit that as I don\'t commissioned I rarely get the problem were I have to review a book I loath. \n\nAnd I guess that if you\'re getting paid to put words out about something you hate why not be snarky. You didn\'t like it so why would someone else? \n\nI\'m a bit gentler than that though I have been known to blast a few novels that had me so enraged I really had to vent. \n\nAs I reviewer I want to love the novel and say good things and say people should be it. When they manage to be good not great that\'s OK. \n\nBut if they disappoint... snakiness comes in from the sense of wasted time and emotion especially if it\'s down to a miskey between expectations and what you actually experience. That experience could be technical - like poor writing or more emotional like characters doing things aren\'t within what they should be doing. \n\nBut then I guess in the end that if you want to take notice of reviewers you have to look at the reviewer as a whole and see what else they\'ve said about other books and if you share their opinions of them before accepting what they say about your own work. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21121548','',0,0),(1852,1370,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-27 21:26:00','2009-10-27 21:26:00','Professional authors expect and can handle bad reviews. We all get them. It\'s when they\'re personal, vindictive and sometimes just downright inaccurate that you start to think... hang on, I spent a year writing this book and someone who\'s just skimmed through it has decided to invalidate that chunk of my life?Most reviewers are responsible. Some want to make a name for themselves by slagging off other people. I don\'t think this tension will go away but it needs to be aired and I\'m glad Alafair did that.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21131534','',1849,0),(1854,711,'','clj1972@live.co.uk','','','2009-10-27 22:13:00','2009-10-27 22:13:00','Can not wait for this release and I\'m especially delighted that there\'s lots of Rome - my favourite city. I\'m heading off to Rome in the Spring - I think this may be my holiday reading! Love the books, David.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21139307','',0,0),(1858,711,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-28 10:54:00','2009-10-28 10:54:00','I\'ll be glad when it\'s out too - I finished the book something like 15 months ago!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21167439','',1854,0),(1860,1380,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-10-28 12:32:00','2009-10-28 12:32:00','I speak English good.\n\nAnd American even better. And I hope you\'ve borrowed lots of Americanisms like \"rodeo\" and \"burrito\" and \"lasso\" and \"entrepreneur.\" :)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21170212','',0,0),(1861,1380,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-28 12:35:00','2009-10-28 12:35:00','Didn\'t George Bush once say, \'The French don\'t know the meaning of the word \"entrepreneur\"?\' Or is that an urban myth? Either way - I like it.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21170314','',1860,0),(1862,1380,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-10-28 12:37:00','2009-10-28 12:37:00','That was one of W\'s many, many interesting comments.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21170408','',1861,0),(1870,1406,'','rlsmith@robalsmith.id.au','','','2009-10-29 08:19:00','2009-10-29 08:19:00','Hey! What about those of us that live in the other 80% of the world? Why do you guys up there always forget that we are out here? Helloooooooo ... We like to read, too, and we have even heard about audio books. I actually have a collection of David Hewson audio books. :-)\n\nBTW, I\'ve just been onto Audible and bought the Copper Bracelet. We have the Internet down here, too, you know.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21247026','',0,0),(1871,1406,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-29 08:21:00','2009-10-29 08:21:00','Hi Robyn. Sorry - you lost me there. Can\'t you get it through the US or UK site? Or the place you get my usual audio books? Do tell and I will pass on to Audible.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21247061','',1870,0),(1872,1406,'','rlsmith@robalsmith.id.au','','','2009-10-29 09:01:00','2009-10-29 09:01:00','Sorry, David. I have been obscure with my poor attempt at humor.  I was referring to the fact that you addressed your entry to \"If you’re in the US\" and \"In the UK\" and I was feeling a bit rejected and neglected. :-)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21248927','',1871,0),(1875,1394,'Mike Cane','','http://twitter.com/mikecane','','2009-10-29 17:25:00','2009-10-29 17:25:00','Hang on to your hat.  They also want us to junk every TV we have and buy ones that will be 3D.  I haven\'t even moved from SD.  Crap in HD is still ... crap.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21276741','',0,0),(1876,1394,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-29 17:28:00','2009-10-29 17:28:00','This came in after I wrote that piece.\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/6455635/3D---the-future-of-television.html\n\nAre there really people out there who think sitting at home watching rubbish 3D TV with GLASSES ON is entertainment? Well a few. Please tell me it’s a few. Please.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21277036','',1875,0),(1877,1394,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-10-29 17:30:00','2009-10-29 17:30:00','Nice analysis. I\'m not sold on 3D and certainly not the way Hollyweird seems to be getting set for it.\n\nJust today I was listening to an interview on NPR with Margaret Atwood and she said that one problems with films was how literal they are--what you see is what you get--unlike, say, in a book, where things can be more \"suggestive.\" And 3D strikes me as being even more literal.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21277317','',0,0),(1882,1456,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-10-29 23:16:00','2009-10-29 23:16:00','Don\'t get me started. The HP might have some great stuff, but its business model (ie., don\'t pay writers) makes me want to take Arianna Huffington out behind the barn and beat her with a shovel.\n\nThe only Yakoff Smirnoff I know of is a Russian comedian who was kind of big in the \'80s. Which still doesn\'t make sense.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21299015','',0,0),(1883,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-30 07:14:00','2009-10-30 07:14:00','I didn\'t know HP doesn\'t pay writers. Or that that counts as a \'new business model\'. Do the accountants, ad staff, web people, PAs and everyone else work for free too (I assume Arianna does given she\'s married to a billionaire)? If not it sounds like a very old model to me. One better called vanity publishing. Mind you I wouldn\'t have paid Craig Newmark one penny for this article.\nIt baffles me that, at a time when decent, skilled articulate journalists everywhere are in danger of losing their jobs, the future of the media is supposedly being mapped out by people who lack the single core facility of all journalism, namely the ability to communicate ideas clearly and succinctly to the general public.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21338266','',1882,0),(1884,1409,'Rick','rick@rickchesler.com','','','2009-10-30 08:38:00','2009-10-30 08:38:00','Really good article. Not the usual first-time author fluff piece.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21339798','',0,0),(1886,1456,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-10-30 09:58:00','2009-10-30 09:58:00','http://news.cnet.com/8301-13508_3-9785908-19.html\n\nI\'m not sure being stiffed by your publisher is a new business  model either. :)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21341807','',1883,0),(1887,1409,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-10-30 10:03:00','2009-10-30 10:03:00','Nice. A rather different POV from the JA Konrath model. You do an awful lot of promotion/travel, though. Is that just because that\'s where you are in your career?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21341899','',0,0),(1888,1409,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-30 10:09:00','2009-10-30 10:09:00','I\'ve done a lot of travel these last couple of years and hope to cut down next. Mainly that\'s been because I have to support a lot of different publishers in different languages. And it\'s to do with the career stage too. Mostly I go to festivals though, not book stores. Festivals and conventions generally speaking are worthwhile - should have emphasised that more perhaps. It varies from country to country. Book store events are just about alive in the US I guess. Pretty much moribund in Europe in any meaningful way. Festivals on the other hand seem to be going from strength to strength here.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21342850','',1887,0),(1889,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-30 10:43:00','2009-10-30 10:43:00','Can\'t remember whether it was Boswell or Johnson who said something along the lines, \'Only a fool writes for free\'.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21344599','',1886,0),(1890,1456,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-10-30 11:57:00','2009-10-30 11:57:00','\"Only a block writes except for money,\" or something along those lines. I\'m not sure if it was Boswell or Johnson.\n\nTime Magazine did a piece on Huffington in the last year or so and at least one journalism source pointed out that most of her news stuff is re-worked from other sources and he rather directly said he thought it was only a matter of time before someone got sued for plagiarism. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21346250','',1889,0),(1891,1409,'','jaze@echonyc.com','','','2009-10-30 12:43:00','2009-10-30 12:43:00','Excellent, excellent advice, David.\n\nWhere has *this post* been? I coulda used it a year or so ago...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21347661','',0,0),(1892,1409,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-30 12:49:00','2009-10-30 12:49:00','Only wrote it last night Jonathan - sorry!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21347880','',1891,0),(1893,1409,'Bob Mayer','bob@bobmayer.org','http://www.bobmayer.org/','','2009-10-30 16:16:00','2009-10-30 16:16:00','All true and lessons learned the hard way.  Don\'t do it the hard way.  Believe it if you\'re a new author.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21359100','',0,0),(1894,1266,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','','2009-10-30 17:41:00','2009-10-30 17:41:00','Stephen King wrote a TERRIFIC short story called \'N\' in his new collection, Just After Midnight.  It\'s a homage to Lovecraft and deals with our perception of realities.\nHere\'s a WONDERFUL video interview with King talking about it: http://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?video=28234768001\nand here is the animated  version of the story:\nhttp://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?video=1683793388\nI bought the three books of Lovecraft, but it was so hard to read.   Still when you listen to it (radio 7 broadcast them regularly) it\'s the nearest thing to being transported...\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21366883','',0,0),(1896,1394,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-30 19:28:00','2009-10-30 19:28:00','In principal I agree with Margaret Atwood. Movie are literal and, crucially,\r\nthey move at their pace, not that of the reader. You can\'t choose how you\r\nreceive them as you can with a book. That said movies can spark the\r\nimagination in a kind of literary way. Or they can be just plain\r\nentertainment in a way books can\'t. I just know Avatar will be neither.\r\n\r\n2009/10/29 Disqus ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21380337','',1877,0),(1897,1409,'Tina Murray','tina@tinamurrayauthor.com','','','2009-11-01 03:25:00','2009-11-01 03:25:00','I\'m feeling my way through the process.  It\'s good to know that I\'m not the first first-time author to come down the proverbial pike.  Thanks for the advice! ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21494833','',0,0),(1898,1456,'','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','','','2009-11-01 16:14:00','2009-11-01 16:14:00','Hi David,\nI found the article well written and insightful. Perhaps I can help:\n\nThe phrase \"...is the new black\" means \"...is the latest trend/must-have item\" and I believe it has been in use long enough for it to be well known by the majority of his audience and for them to be able to extrapolate what he means with ease.  What he posits is that the general public now wonders exactly where we can go for news which is as objective as possible and well curated (I\'m sorry, I love the term - see below) and I think it would be tough to argue credibly against that.\n\nOn the phrase \"news curation\", the paragraph before the one you quoted at length began: \n\"Many of us feel that professional news curation, editing, failed us deeply.\" \n\nSo there you go, he explains that, for the most part, he means \'editing\'. However, he doesn\'t simply use the word \"editing\" is because his entire premise is that the selection of what is put at the forefront of our news services (for which \'news curation\' is an excellent term i.e., curation requires the selection of the most appropriate pieces to highlight from a collection of items) will be performed not only professional editors but rather by a mix of editors and populist \"audience participation.\" I think most of us would agree that he should not have referred to the \'audience participation\' as \'editing\'. \nAt the moment, the selection balance is rather heavily on the side of the audience (sometimes entirely) and he was arguing for more editing, something which I would DEARLY love to see. I\'m tired of the online front page of my newspaper being littered with celebrity births, diets and anything titillating because that\'s what my fellow readers have clicked on most.  \n\nI hope that helped :)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21529411','',0,0),(1899,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-01 16:26:00','2009-11-01 16:26:00','Thanks for commenting\nI\'m well aware that \'...is the new black\' is used that awfully cliched way. But it\'s only meaningful if the subject has some relevance to the cliché. Trust is something established media have always sought to establish. There\'s nothing new there. That\'s why US newspapers have employed fact checkers for decades. Without that relevance \'trust is the new black\' simply becomes one more buzzphrase to join a million meaningless others. \nI can\'t agree that news curation is an excellent term if few people outside the small, cognoscenti audience for which this article was written, actually understand what it means. If he means editing he should say editing. Journalism is about clarity. I have to say you\'re the first person who\'s read this piece who seems to know what it means, which says it all for me. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21534054','',1898,0),(1900,1456,'','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','','','2009-11-01 16:54:00','2009-11-01 16:54:00','But that\'s the thing: trust is at an all-time low, fact-checkers are rarely used now, if they are it is for legal purposes only - this IS new and needs to be addressed. \n\nAs for \'news curation\' being a phrase for the cognoscenti, the article is not high-brow in anyway whatsoever.  I had never heard the term before and it was clear to me even before he explained what he meant - which he did. \n\nAgain, he did not mean \'editing\' only - perhaps you skipped most of myparagraph on that? Perhaps you did the same when reading his article - got annoyed by the \"new black\" line and then just skimmed?  I don\'t know how one would write with a view to how people will perceive an article if they skim it lightly.\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21535613','',1899,0),(1901,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-01 17:02:00','2009-11-01 17:02:00','Sadly I did read the article, painful and cryptic as it was. I don\'t think there\'s much mileage in making this point about clarity over and over again. We have enough words to communicate clearly already without being subjected to needless impenetrable jargon. I\'m glad you understood. As I said - you\'re the only person I\'ve met who did.  ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21536057','',1900,0),(1902,1456,'','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','','','2009-11-01 17:09:00','2009-11-01 17:09:00','hehe Hey it\'s your blog, if you want to say I\'m part of the cognoscenti I guess I\'ll have to live with it :) Besides I enjoy your tweets too much to piss you off LOL ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21536391','',1901,0),(1905,1533,'','rlsmith@robalsmith.id.au','','','2009-11-02 07:01:00','2009-11-02 07:01:00','I have really enjoyed reading this entry to learn more about your writing process. It will give me another reason to go back and read your books again while I wait for the next one as I have not really been aware of the switching POV. It all happens so seamlessly that it is invisible. \n\nI also wish that my students would read what you said about proof reading your work. It would make the marking that I am faced with over the next couple of weeks a little more palatable.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21606779','',0,0),(1906,1533,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-02 07:54:00','2009-11-02 07:54:00','\'Invisible\' is what it\'s all about. I think it was Orwell who said something along the lines that, if you notice the writing, something\'s wrong. I hope I\'m not being the magician giving away tricks here! As for proof reading - bear in mind I\'m proofing something that\'s been through an editor already. So a lot of the gremlins have gone. I am reading more for sense and obvious glitches. I find it hard to proof read my own work, particularly soon after reading it. Another post some time...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21647782','',1905,0),(1907,1487,'Adam Christopher','adam@adamchristopher.co.uk','http://www.adamchristopher.co.uk','','2009-11-03 08:30:00','2009-11-03 08:30:00','Not sure I quite agree with some of your points.\n\nYou say, \"Writing the wrong words is worse than writing no words at all. Sooner or later you will, one hopes, realise they’re the wrong words and have to go back and unwrite them, taking out any other wrong words you wrote as a result of that initial false turning. This is a desperate waste of time and energy. There is no point in chasing targets for the sake of it.\"\n\nThere is a saying, that you can\'t fix an empty page. When I interviewed New York Times Bestselling author Scott Sigler, he talked about \"getting the clay on the wheel\". You need something there first before you can start to shape your masterpiece. You mustn\'t worry about throwing stuff away if it doesn\'t work, but sometimes you don\'t know it doesn\'t work until you\'ve got it all down. That\'s part of the process. If you write a 100,000-word first draft, and end up rewriting 50,000 words of it, that\'s not a waste of time at all. By saying that a writer has wasted their time on those bad 50,000 words in the first place, you\'re instilling the fear - the fear that what they\'re writing isn\'t good enough, that everyone else is better than them, that they need to try harder, that maybe they aren\'t cut out to be a writer after all.\n\nThe first draft is allowed to suck. Get the clay on the wheel. You can\'t fix an empty page.\n\nPretty simple rules I think.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21743432','',0,0),(1908,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-03 08:37:00','2009-11-03 08:37:00','I\'m not trying to instil any fear here. Of course a first draft is a first draft. But there\'s a difference between producing words that can be turned into something and producing words that can\'t. Writing for the sake of it is, in my view, likely to produce the latter, and waste time when you realise it has to come out, not least because one false turning is likely to lead to others. \n\nI also doubt very many published writers find they have to rewrite one in two words - 50K out of 100K - of a finished book. They need better antennae than that. But that\'s just my opinion.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21743552','',1907,0),(1909,1487,'Adam Christopher','adam@adamchristopher.co.uk','http://www.adamchristopher.co.uk','','2009-11-03 08:46:00','2009-11-03 08:46:00','Yes, that I agree with. Punching a keyboard until your computer dings at 2000 words is a waste of time. I do think a lot of people take that approach to Nano, and achieve vast daily wordcounts just for the sake of wordcounts, and at the end of the month have something completely unreadable.\n\nI guess what I\'m saying is that you should focus on getting the words down, by try your damnedest to make them the best you have. And then you can fix it later, but it\'s important not to worry about at the first draft. If you\'re doing your best and trying your hardest and sweating bullets over the first run, then chances are you\'ll have something in good shape that you can fix on the second, third, fourth drafts.\n\nThat still might mean you need to delete 50% of what you slaved over, but only because you\'re replacing the good stuff with something better.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21743681','',1908,0),(1910,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-03 08:51:00','2009-11-03 08:51:00','Just to be clear... the advice above was NOT aimed at people aiming to produce something for Nano..... \'Nanowrimo apart, word counts are illusory in many ways.\'',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21743783','',1909,0),(1911,1487,'ivan007','','http://blog.ivanpope.com/','','2009-11-03 10:46:00','2009-11-03 10:46:00','I also write in Scrivener and love it -  mostly.\nI think word counts are only important in this way: you have to keep moving forward, you have to move the narrative on. In order to know if you are doing this, you have to measure something and words is what you measure. The worst thing I find is to notice that the book has just sort of stopped. Then there is a problem. If it stops it means it\'s not moving forward. If it\'s not moving forward it might mean that I\'ve lost the plot, or lost interest, or that it\'s ended, of course.\nSo I set a mor or less random book total and just write in that direction, trying to keep it moving, even when I\'m deep back in what I\'ve already written. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21747631','',0,0),(1912,1487,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-11-03 13:43:00','2009-11-03 13:43:00','Ultimately for me it\'s more important that I actually write SOMETHING on a work in progress, particularly since I\'m buried in nonfiction writing gigs that pay my bills at the moment. I aim for 5 pages (double-spaced, so I guess I\'m waiting to read your thoughts on that), but understand that by now, one good page will do if that\'s what I have time for.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21756864','',0,0),(1913,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-03 14:29:00','2009-11-03 14:29:00','Have you tried writing in single or 1.5 line spacing, Mark? If you did, what did you think?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21758929','',1912,0),(1914,1487,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-11-03 14:36:00','2009-11-03 14:36:00','For nonfiction of all lengths I typically write single-spaced. Never really tried it for fiction except fairly recently for a short story. I guess it more closely approximates what a book would look like.\n\nPage counts for fiction have been driving me nuts for some time. I used to use Times New Roman 12-point and knew that double-spaced, I basically aimed at a 400-page manuscript. But I switched over to Courier 12-point and now I\'m not completely sure about page count, but I guess it\'s closer to 500 pages for 100,000 words. The word count is more what I\'m aiming at, I suppose. It is in fiction (where I\'m often paid per word anyway).',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21759527','',1913,0),(1915,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-03 14:38:00','2009-11-03 14:38:00','Thanks for the feedback. Will attempt to set down my thoughts on this shortly. The problems you mention seem to me very common.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21759668','',1914,0),(1916,1487,'','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','','','2009-11-03 16:03:00','2009-11-03 16:03:00','I love the idea of a National Novel Writing Month.  However, am not overly fond of the concept of trying to write 50K in a month.  I did it once.  And amazingly enough, that book is published.  Though, not after basically deleting most of it and starting over.  What I had was one hell of an outline for a really good story.\n\nSomeone started the idea of NaNoRevisMo -- basically revise your manuscript in a month.  This me likes.  This is what me is doing for the month of November.  But honestly, it was a timing thing.\n\nI try not to get hung up on word count or page count.  I think in terms of scenes.  Goals generally are to write a scene or two a day, depending on the day.  Sometimes more.  \n\nThe biggest thing I like about NaNo is the celebration of writing novels and the idea is to finish one, so, off I go to write. Later dude.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21764265','',0,0),(1917,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-03 16:14:00','2009-11-03 16:14:00','Thank you Dudetta. I like the buzz around Nanowrimo too but I have to say the idea of banging out 50k words in a month is a bit terrifying. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21764816','',1916,0),(1918,1556,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','','2009-11-03 20:55:00','2009-11-03 20:55:00','Ooh, I love false document stories like flashman, for example.  This would make a great audiobook.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21782694','',0,0),(1919,144,'','drmikepiff@gmail.com','','','2009-11-03 21:13:00','2009-11-03 21:13:00','Why is this so expensive for my Sony Reader still? I would love to read it and review it for Amazon.co.uk but will wait till the electronic version approaches £5.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21783750','',0,0),(1920,144,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-03 21:20:00','2009-11-03 21:20:00','I just write these stories, Mike. I have no control and no idea what people sell them for. I think you can buy the actual book for around £5.50, can\'t you?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21784077','',1919,0),(1921,1533,'Dawn Herring','journalwriter@sbcglobal.net','http://www.journalwriter.blogspot.com/','','2009-11-03 23:15:00','2009-11-03 23:15:00','I agree with your assessment of multiple viewpoints adding texture to the story. When I have a number of characters in the story, I find it easier to have multiple points of view so the reader can get a taste of how different characters respond to the same issue or person. It gives the reader a clearer picture of that character\'s dimensional view.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21810743','',0,0),(1922,1586,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-11-04 13:53:00','2009-11-04 13:53:00','I tend to write lean anyway. Some editors apparently feel too lean. For my particular type of book (at the moment), fast-paced, edgy thrillers with the main character pretty much battling the clock, lean is good. It\'s a balancing act, but I think your way probably makes sense, at least if you can add material in and still make it be organic. That\'s probably the trick.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21854035','',0,0),(1923,1605,'Jen','jenniferbee@gmail.com','http://jbrubacher.blogspot.com/','','2009-11-05 11:11:00','2009-11-05 11:11:00','\"People write double spaced because they’re told that’s what professionals do.\"\n\nI write double spaced because single spaced looks like a great lump of black squiggles.  The fact that there are more words on the page doesn\'t mean I can spot anything with more ease.  I like the idea of picking a style that suits whoever is writing, and it\'s good to point out that nothing must be done just because someone says so.   But I think it\'s a bit odd to believe that it\'s *only* old-fashionedness that supports double spacing.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21929305','',0,0),(1924,1605,'','steve@sparshott.org','','','2009-11-05 12:32:00','2009-11-05 12:32:00','I always write in Scrivener\'s full screen mode too, for the obvious reason- no distractions. When I read your suggestion regarding fonts and spacing, adjusting them so the formatting essentially becomes invisible, I thought \"Nice idea\", then realised I do just that instinctively. Font and size, anyway; I\'ll now experiment with spacing. Yes, I know, I should be writing.\n\nFull screen mode also had an unexpected benefit recently; I was trying to include some BBC BASIC (\'80s computer language) and set Scrivener up to recreate the look of the BBC Micro display. It worked beautifully! http://readgetwellsoon.com/post/215475015/ive-been-writing-in-mid-80s-bbc-basic-this',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21933085','',0,0),(1925,1605,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-05 12:36:00','2009-11-05 12:36:00','Thanks for the BBC basic Steve. I don\'t think I\'ll sleep tonight!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21933210','',1924,0),(1926,1605,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-05 12:37:00','2009-11-05 12:37:00','As I said I find single spacing too tight so I write in 1.5 lines. Still see an awful lot more than double spacing. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21933222','',1923,0),(1927,1605,'Clinton Keith','clintonnkeith@hotmail.com','','','2009-11-05 14:56:00','2009-11-05 14:56:00','Agreed.  I write in 1.2 and print in double when I take some pages down to the coffee shop to edit.  That\'s what works for me.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21939521','',1923,0),(1928,1605,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-11-05 15:04:00','2009-11-05 15:04:00','A key thing here might actually be: do what works for you.\n\nI know I\'ve successfully used Time New Roman 12-point for years, double-spaced, then switched to Courier just because some people think it makes a difference. What it mostly did was confuse me as to where I was in terms of my project\'s length. TNR also does some funky things to curly quotes, etc., in Word that disappears entirely in Courier, but I seriously doubt it makes a difference in the end.\n\nMaybe I\'ll try my current WIPs in 1.5 or 1.0. I do most of my nonfiction in 1.0.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21939953','',0,0),(1929,1605,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','','2009-11-05 15:38:00','2009-11-05 15:38:00','A couple of blogs ago, you mentioned that, \"It’s desperately important to let a narrative run to its natural length. The length dictated by the rhythm of the narrative.\"\n\nRhythm of Narrative?  This sounds desperately useful!  Perhaps you could expand on this at some point, too.\n\nThanks,\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21941798','',0,0),(1930,1605,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-05 15:43:00','2009-11-05 15:43:00','Maybe Michael. In simple terms I mean a story should end when it gets to the end, not have its life prolonged or shortened by the writer\'s verbosity or lack of time. Will try and write something when I have a moment. It\'s suddenly got very busy around here so it may be a while.  ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):21942057','',1929,0),(1931,160,'Maggie','maggie@fouquet-landaw.com','','','2009-11-06 14:09:00','2009-11-06 14:09:00','I truly admire your writing and love the Nic Costa books BUT there is one word - just one word - in Dante\'s Numbers which really upsets me.  It is very stupid of me to let it rankle but here it is: \"unknown stranger\".  Tautology, or what?\n\nVery much looking forward to The Fallen Angel.\n\nBest wishes\nMaggie\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22035253','',0,0),(1932,160,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-06 15:14:00','2009-11-06 15:14:00','Guess that one word in 120,000 must have slipped through me and three sets of editors. It\'s difficult with a series when you\'re writing a book a year to get every last word right I\'m afraid. But it should have been picked up.\nAlso if God can come up with fluffs like the ones below I think mere mortals are allowed one every now and again.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22039449','',1931,0),(1938,160,'','wizardgold@gmail.com','','','2009-11-07 14:16:00','2009-11-07 14:16:00','Interview with David Hewson on Writers 20 Questions at http://writers20q.com',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22127383','',0,0),(1940,1586,'','roy.judd@gmx.com','','','2009-11-07 18:02:00','2009-11-07 18:02:00','Thank you David. Your blog is fast becoming an episodic masterclass for aspiring fiction writers, and I for one am very grateful.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22139369','',0,0),(1941,711,'','vaness_rhiannon@hotmail.com','','','2009-11-08 06:11:00','2009-11-08 06:11:00','Hi there,\r\nDo you know what your release date will be in Canada?\r\nThanks, Vanessa',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22178366','',0,0),(1942,711,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-08 07:00:00','2009-11-08 07:00:00','Commonwealth territories like Canada and Australia normally get the books around six weeks after they appear in the UK',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22179920','',1941,0),(1943,92,'graham stevens','gstevens8@cogeco.ca','','','2009-11-08 14:37:00','2009-11-08 14:37:00','just finished cemetery of secrets----absolutely tremendous---can\'t wait until  blue demon comes out',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22244614','',0,0),(1944,92,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-08 15:15:00','2009-11-08 15:15:00','Glad you enjoyed it Graham. You may want to check out The Lizard\'s Bite which is sort of complimentary to Cemetery and features some of the same characters.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22245536','',1943,0),(1946,159,'Jane Mel','mel@tpg.com','','','2009-11-09 04:29:00','2009-11-09 04:29:00','I\'m currently reading The Cemetary of Secrets. So far I\'m enjoying it greatly as it enhances my fascination on the history of Italy. My question is: why do you choose Italy as the settings of your books? It must be rather challenging to write about a country and its history without being its native.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22417856','',0,0),(1947,159,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-09 07:14:00','2009-11-09 07:14:00','Funnily enough I\'ll be putting up a post on that subject shortly. I happen to believe it\'s good for authors (well me anyway) to write about what they don\'t know, not what they do. If you write about what you don\'t know you have to work harder to create that fictional world inside the book (and you\'re right - with Italy that was a lot of work, very pleasant work mind).\nThanks for the comment!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22426085','',1946,0),(1948,1686,'','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','','','2009-11-09 16:53:00','2009-11-09 16:53:00','The more I write, the more I find out about myself as a writer.  I started not knowing anything and fumbled my way through my first book.  As I learned and studied the craft (and poked around inside you head and others) I learned some things that helped me become a better writer.\n\nI like to know how I think the book will end.  Key word here is \"think\".  My endings generally mirror my beginnings in some way.  So, I sort of know where my book is driving toward based on goal and conflict of my protag and the inciting incident.  This kind of sets up the dark moment and the climactic scene.  I outline what I \"think\" are my plot points, my emotional journey, and anything else I think I know about my book (which includes backstory).\n\nFor me, I have to be open to all the possibilities as I write.  I learn things about my characters that I didn\'t know along the way.  Things develop.  Plot thickens.\n\nI have done a bigger outline for current WIP than I have with any other project.  However, I\'m well into my first revision and things will change.  I need the outline, but I can\'t be married to it.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22450373','',0,0),(1955,184,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','','2009-11-10 20:02:00','2009-11-10 20:02:00','Is there an audio version being released to go with the revised CoS?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22579343','',0,0),(1957,184,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-10 21:44:00','2009-11-10 21:44:00','The script isn\'t really sufficiently different to warrant another audio version. Whether the current one labelled Lucifer\'s Shadow gets renamed is up to the publishers I think.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22635674','',1955,0),(1958,1686,'','dhounam@gmail.com','','','2009-11-10 21:45:00','2009-11-10 21:45:00','I\'m curious then, David... how much use do you find Scrivener\'s corkboard? Can you seriously use it as a basic structuring tool, or is it merely a means of shuffling things around now and again...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22635740','',0,0),(1959,1686,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-10 21:50:00','2009-11-10 21:50:00','I had never met a corkboard until I started talking to American writers. In Europe they\'re pretty much unknown (as far as I\'m aware). The honest answer is: to begin with I hated it. Now, if I\'m rolling into a part of the book where I\'m trying to choreograph scenes, then I will use it, as you say, for shuffling things around visually. Nothing more than that. I don\'t think it\'s a silver bullet.\n\nThis may be of use if you haven\'t seen it.\n\nhttp://www.davidhewson.com/2009/10/scrivener-and-the-mosaic-of-writing/',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22636023','',1958,0),(1961,159,'Joanna Low','meme@gmail.com','','','2009-11-11 03:45:00','2009-11-11 03:45:00','I admire your bold attitude to tackle something that you are not familiar with (a foreign country) as your primary setting. Particularly when the stories are exposed to a wide range of audience who would potentially  scrutinize the details of the scenes and history (from the native Italians to those who have merely visited Italy). Did you have specific ideas on which parts of Italy you wanted to use in your stories before going there to do the research? What would you do if you decide to add a scene while writing your book and you realize that you lack details of that venue? ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22687365','',0,0),(1962,159,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-11 04:41:00','2009-11-11 04:41:00','I mainly try to focus on the places I know best - Rome and Venice. Italy is such a big country it would be crazy to try to write something \'Italian\'. Generally speaking I do my research beforehand, up to three months of visiting locations. Then I sit down to write the book. If I need more detail I just go back to Rome and get it.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22690000','',1961,0),(1972,92,'','vickigoldie@yahoo.co.uk','','','2009-11-12 16:46:00','2009-11-12 16:46:00','Hi David, have read them all, I really like the way the characters have developed along the way, and thought that Noc\'s father might be rather interesting ........ so can\'t wait until February!!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22831791','',0,0),(1973,92,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-12 16:54:00','2009-11-12 16:54:00','I\'ll be very pleased when it\'s out too - I finished that book last year and the one after is already complete!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):22832456','',1972,0),(1989,1960,'Giovanni','gizeta99@gmail.com','','','2009-11-16 19:49:00','2009-11-16 19:49:00','Hi David, my name is Giovanni, I\'m following your site with great interest - I live in Milano (Milan), perhaps are you planning to go for some book event about your novels in Milan too? thanks ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):23234233','',0,0),(1990,1960,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-16 21:11:00','2009-11-16 21:11:00','I\'d love to find an excuse to come back to Milano, Giovanni. Years since I was there and my agent is based there too. But no plans at the moment -- perhaps when the new Italian edition is out in May. What book stores would you recommend for an event - in English or Italian?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):23247141','',1989,0),(1996,1960,'Giovanni','gizeta99@gmail.com','','','2009-11-17 22:28:00','2009-11-17 22:28:00','There are nice big bookstores, regularly doing events (books, music and so) - Feltrinelli and Mondadori in piazza Duomo, for example - also the Fnac (the big French chain bookstores, present in Italy too) just five minutes from Piazza Duomo - and there is also a little group of writers, journalists and thriller/noir fans called \"milanonera\" - they run twice a week book events about thrillers, noir, \"gialli\" in a pretty nice bookstore owned by Mursia publishing house - just near a subway stop (helpful in Milano - and maybe not only in Milano...); and if you should ever plan to write a thriller set in Milano (I know, less charming than Venice, less history than Rome - and less known to Brit/American readers, except for the fashion and a Prime minister...) hey, it would be great!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):23388669','',1990,0),(2026,2077,'','markterry@charter.net','','','2009-11-20 22:16:00','2009-11-20 22:16:00','Movies help the various cities\' economies, no doubt. There\'s been a lot in the news here in the Detroit area because the state government essentially killed taxes for the film industry, so filmmakers are flocking to Michigan. It brings in a fair amount of work and since filmmaking requires a fair amount of skilled trades like carpenters and electricians, etc., Detroit and the local areas have plenty of people with those skills. Of course, not surprisingly, there\'s a fair amount of controversy in the state legislature over the taxation with a number of politicians wanting to start taxing the industry. That will, I\'m sure, result in the filmmakers flocking back to Canada or wherever the dollar will buy them cheap labor, or to whatever state will give them a tax break.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):23655859','',0,0),(2032,1960,'Theodora Wayte','','http://twitter.com/Theodora8','','2009-11-24 18:57:00','2009-11-24 18:57:00','Venice in January, how lovely. I hope you evening goes well. What a treat, for you and they.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):23964882','',0,0),(2063,92,'Aaron','a2meade@hotmail.com','','','2009-11-29 14:31:00','2009-11-29 14:31:00','Looking forward to it\'s realese in the states. I really like this series of books. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24274311','',0,0),(2065,2244,'John Laudun','jlaudun@mac.com','http://johnlaudun.org/','','2009-11-30 15:33:00','2009-11-30 15:33:00','Thanks for sharing your experiment. \n\nMy only question is where did you find that lovely, understated notebook theme? ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24341533','',0,0),(2066,2244,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-30 15:35:00','2009-11-30 15:35:00','It\'s all explained in this article on the site. It\'s a standard WP theme. I just got it by searching on \'diary\'. I am using this for my private diary on the new book - and loving it I have to say. There are some extra tweaks one can make that effectively turn it into a desktop app. \n\nhttp://davidhewson.net/?p=37',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24341604','',2065,0),(2067,2244,'ptrader','ptrader@charter.net','','','2009-11-30 18:51:00','2009-11-30 18:51:00','If you use Wordpress MU (Multi-User), you could set up separate blogs for each manuscript.  Just thinking ahead...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24355567','',0,0),(2068,2244,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-11-30 20:59:00','2009-11-30 20:59:00','Yes, that\'s a future option. From what I read Wordpress 3 and MU will merge\r\nwhich would be wonderful for this?\r\n\r\n2009/11/30 Disqus ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24364054','',2067,0),(2069,2244,'quillaja','quillaja@hotmail.com','http://www.quillaja.net','','2009-11-30 23:59:00','2009-11-30 23:59:00','While I agree that this is an interesting, useful, and novel use of wordpress, I don\'t see any major advantages of using this compared to something like Evernote, Google Notebook, or (the upcoming) OneNote Online. I\'m not sure how much granularity these give you in terms of access control, but Google Notebook has sharing of at the notebook level, publishing to public web pages, etc. It also allows commenting and tagging on notebook entries.\n\nGoogle Notebook, however, has the disadvantages of requiring a google account, and (I believe) being dropped from active development. Also, I suppose WP has the advantage of greater customization.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24380508','',0,0),(2070,2244,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-12-01 06:50:00','2009-12-01 06:50:00','I use Evernote. While it is good in many ways it\'s a nightmare for organising complex data (why they refuse to implement hierarchical folders is beyond me) and simply can\'t handle a diary function well. Google Notebook is pretty much dead. OneNote Online doesn\'t exist. This runs on anything - Mac, Windows or Linux and can also be accessed through any online reader and as an app through something like Prism or Fluid. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24415102','',2069,0),(2071,2244,'quillaja','quillaja@hotmail.com','http://www.quillaja.net','','2009-12-01 10:08:00','2009-12-01 10:08:00','I see. I pretty much figured it was something like that. Thanks for replying. =)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24422975','',2070,0),(2087,2313,'','roy.judd@gmx.com','','','2009-12-04 21:52:00','2009-12-04 21:52:00','Is there, I wonder, an inverse relationship between the number of photographs you are able to take without incurring interrogation and the number of CCTV cameras that are watching you at any given time? What a government, eh? Keeping Britain safe by keeping Britain cowed. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24837649','',0,0),(2089,2313,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-12-06 09:46:00','2009-12-06 09:46:00','I think I read somewhere that a quarter of all the CCTV cameras in the world are in the UK. So obviously it\'s OK for THEM to take photos of US.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):24942634','',2087,0),(2103,711,'','b.robinson222@btinternet.com','','','2009-12-13 13:47:00','2009-12-13 13:47:00','Hi David, just converted to your books, and my wife and I cannot wait for the continuing development of Nic Costa and the team.  Perhaps Dan Brown may learn how to write a little better if he reads The Cemetary of Secrets, we holidayed in Venice this year prior to discovering your books, and now long to revisit and to journey through Rome using your eyes.  Wishing you a long , long career as in our view the most exciting and clever author we have ever read...........Brian and Sharon',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):25645815','',0,0),(2104,711,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-12-13 14:20:00','2009-12-13 14:20:00','Thanks very much!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):25646543','',2103,0),(2107,92,'Brian','boconn6410@aol.com','','','2009-12-14 18:29:00','2009-12-14 18:29:00','Hi David,\r\n  I am a big US fan here, read almost all of your standalones.  I\'ve tried to get hold of Semana Santa to no avail, glad you are re-issuing/re-inventing  it.    \r\n  I loved Dante\'s Numbers, read it in a day, made me rent the Hitchcock film the next day. \r\n I cannot wait for the next book.   One question though, why are there two titles for the new book?\r\nThanks, Brian',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):25755728','',0,0),(2108,92,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-12-14 18:31:00','2009-12-14 18:31:00','Two different territories, two different publishers. It happens from time to\r\ntime. Glad you like the books!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):25756399','',2107,0),(2127,7230,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-01-29 11:48:00','2011-01-29 11:48:00','Aaarrgghhh! TWO Facebook accounts? I\'d never get anything written!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):136598726','',1777,0),(2128,7230,'Linwood Barclay','linwoodbarclay@mac.com','http://www.linwoodbarclay.com','24.150.28.207','2011-01-29 12:08:49','2011-01-29 12:08:49','Come back. All is forgiven. I liked knowing what you were up to, and believe me, I don\'t feel that way about everyone on FB. Ninety per cent of it -- okay, 99 per cent of it -- is a total waste of time, but that one per cent offers pleasant surprises.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2130,7230,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-29 12:41:04','2011-01-29 12:41:04','Oh great - NOW you\'re nagging in public! I dunno.... if I go back, don\'t like it and quit again I\'d look petulant. And you know I\'m not, don\'t you? Don\'t you?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2128,1),(2440,7492,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.7.91','2011-02-20 16:11:31','2011-02-20 16:11:31','It works really well with Astrid, or so it seemed to me. And you can sort into labels  - book, travel work -- dead easily',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2437,1),(2177,7359,'Peter Labrow','peter@labrow.com','http://blog.peterlabrow.com/','86.8.49.110','2011-01-31 09:25:48','2011-01-31 09:25:48','Since my editor uses Windows, I was forced to complete the final drafts of my first novel, The Well, in Word. The turned the process which into something which was (to say the least) far more cumbersome, when you are used to Scrivener. The above process - and the advent of Scrivener for Windows - should not only help my writing, but also my editing - enormously. Thanks David.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2168,5654,'Neville Churchill','neville.churchill@hotmail.co.uk','http://davidhewson.com/2010/08/history-as-showbiz-the-saxons-deserve-better-than-this/','91.104.109.16','2011-01-30 23:49:51','2011-01-30 23:49:51','I can only assume this was a schools program, masquerading as high-quality BBC factual output.  I stopped watching after she repeated the assertion that all this magnificent creativity was stopped in its tracks by the Norman Invasion. Most of the artefacts she chose to concentrate on were from the 7th and 8th centuries - and all reflective of the European scene (particularly Merovingian) at that date. With the exception of certain specifically Scandinavian and Anglo-Hibernian features, Saxon decorative forms kept largely in step with the western European styles – and they were producing the same sorts of decorative and manuscript works that everyone else was by 1066. This effectively continued unabated following the Conquest. What was she on about!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDC)','',0,0),(2133,7230,'Gary Slinger','gary@garyslinger.com','','72.187.125.87','2011-01-29 14:09:43','2011-01-29 14:09:43','Don\'t do \"two accounts\" as such; do a personal regular account, just like you had before, where you have your real friends/contacts through the \"friending\" process, and then create a \"Page\" where /anyone/ can just hit \"Like\" to become a part of that.  They\'ll get any updates and such you post there, without being cross-matched to your real friends account.\r\n\r\nRemember that \"normal\" accounts have a limit of about 5000 friends anyway.\r\n\r\nAn example \"page\" - http://www.facebook.com/#!/SKelby vs. his \"account\" - http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=573712462\r\n\r\nAs for keeping two different things up - you can manage writing vs. blogging vs. staying in touch with friends - same thing.  Public posts to the public page, and if there\'s nothing to say, there\'s nothing to do.\r\n\r\nHope that helps.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',2127,0),(2134,7230,'Jenni Holbrook-Talty','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2011-01-29 14:11:38','2011-01-29 14:11:38','You should know better than to ask for an opinion openly knowing I always have one. Social media is a huge time suck and it would appear sometimes that I never have anything better to do than to twitter away. I tend to multi-task and since I started working with Bob Mayer the business side of this business takes up a lot of my time so in a way, it gives me more time to do social media. If that makes sense. I really only show up at various times of the day for short spurts. And I like twitter over Facebook because on twitter I find great information, great blogs, and I can drive traffic to websites, etc, from twitter better than facebook. I do the tweetdeck thing which sends only the tweets I want onto facebook and then I will chat with friends, etc but very rarely. \r\n\r\nThe reality in is in today\'s publishing world unless you\'re Nora Roberts, you\'ve got to be out there promoting. The question is what sells books? I have no idea. Hits to a blog doesn\'t equal sales, but perhaps a future sale someday. I do know that all this social media stuff has helped with the teaching side of the business for me, since I am first a teacher. \r\n\r\nTo facebook or not to facebook? Honestly, other than old HS friends and family, the same people on twitter are my friends on facebook. Though I have 2x as many followers on twitter as I do on facebook. I think for you a fanpage would be a good thing and could be useful and productive. But the one key thing is whatever you do decide to do you must be consistent for the efforts to pay off. OK, me done now.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2135,7250,'Tweets that mention Another view on social media for authors -- Topsy.com','','http://topsy.com/davidhewson.com/2011/01/another-view-on-social-media-for-authors/?utm_source=pingback&amp;utm_campaign=L2','208.74.66.43','2011-01-29 14:16:50','2011-01-29 14:16:50','[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by David Hewson and Jenni Holbrook-Talty, Alistair Sowerbutts. Alistair Sowerbutts said: RT @david_hewson: New post: Another view on social media for authors http://davidhewson.com/?p=7250 [...]',0,'1','SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.712','pingback',0,0),(2136,7230,'Lorna Lucas','lorna327@frontier.com','','184.15.98.183','2011-01-29 14:25:59','2011-01-29 14:25:59','I truly enjoyed following you on Facebook. Your travels and your comments about your garden, your dog, and most definitely your current book were always enjoyable reading. I look forward to each and every book you publish and simply enjoyed reading about you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2137,7230,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-29 14:26:11','2011-01-29 14:26:11','I have to be consistent???\nThat sounds terribly difficult, Jenni. Not sure I can go there.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2134,1),(2138,7230,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-29 14:27:10','2011-01-29 14:27:10','Very helpful Gary. Makes a lot of sense.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2133,1),(2139,7250,'Jenni Holbrook-Talty','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2011-01-29 14:29:17','2011-01-29 14:29:17','Thanks for the link to the Tribal Writer blog. I agree that twitter can be more effective, but other authors I know think facebook is more effective for them. I suppose it then comes down to what you can spend your time doing and what works for you.\r\n\r\nAt Write It Forward we have a saying, Writers produce the product and Readers consumer the product, everything else is in the middle. Distribution is changing and because distribution is changing Publishers selling to the retail chains doesn\'t necessarily get books in the hands of readers. Retailers are buying less stock. Less mid-list authors. \r\n\r\nThe Digital Book World Conference was this past week and I followed the twitter convo and it was very interesting. B&amp;N here in the states sold more from their on-line store then they did in physical stores. Its more than the digital age being upon us. The publishing system is broken and some big changes need to be made. Unfortunately that leaves the author to pick up the slack making it his job to write and promote their books. On the other hand, with change comes opportunity and this past year has been the best year in my publishing career.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2140,7230,'Jenni Holbrook-Talty','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2011-01-29 14:31:11','2011-01-29 14:31:11','Well, you are consistently a gentlemen :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',2137,0),(2141,7253,'Tweets that mention I am now back on Facebook -- Topsy.com','','http://topsy.com/davidhewson.com/2011/01/i-am-now-back-on-facebook/?utm_source=pingback&amp;utm_campaign=L2','208.74.66.43','2011-01-29 15:23:43','2011-01-29 15:23:43','[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by David Hewson and Jenni Holbrook-Talty, Laura Benedict. Laura Benedict said: Surprised but glad. RT @david_hewson: New post: I am now back on Facebook http://davidhewson.com/?p=7253 [...]',0,'1','SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.712','pingback',0,0),(2145,3302,'Lombard Rice','bardricde@cwo.com','','208.106.7.131','2011-01-29 21:37:17','2011-01-29 21:37:17','I just finished \"The Lizard\'s Bite\" and it is outstanding.  It was my 2nd read n the series and I look forward to reading more.\r\nThank you for them all.\r\n\r\nBard Rice',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2146,3302,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-29 21:55:35','2011-01-29 21:55:35','Thank you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2145,1),(2162,7348,'Tweets that mention We’re now iPhone, Android and iPad friendly -- Topsy.com','','http://topsy.com/davidhewson.com/2011/01/were-now-iphone-android-and-ipad-friendly/?utm_source=pingback&amp;utm_campaign=L2','208.74.66.43','2011-01-30 18:29:35','2011-01-30 18:29:35','[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by David Hewson, David Griffin. David Griffin said: RT @david_hewson: New post: We&#039;re now iPhone, Android and iPad friendly http://davidhewson.com/?p=7348 [...]',0,'1','SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.712','pingback',0,0),(2161,6794,'Ross','rossbkr@gmail.com','','86.15.171.74','2011-01-30 18:16:22','2011-01-30 18:16:22','I can imagine... Scripts, casting, location! Years of work no doubt!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5','',2159,0),(2159,6794,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-30 18:14:50','2011-01-30 18:14:50','Thanks - there\'s a lot of work to be done still though.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2157,1),(2165,7230,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-30 21:10:41','2011-01-30 21:10:41','Thanks... am getting there I think',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2164,1),(2166,5654,'Gail','farrog@hotmail.co.uk','','82.21.60.160','2011-01-30 22:24:33','2011-01-30 22:24:33','I watched the repeat earlier this evening, and personally found Nina\'s approach refreshing. It\'s telling that the comments above have her down as not only a smarty pants, but also of participating in trivialising the subject. For me, Nina captured something of the feel of the Dark Ages, regardless of her \'footwear\' - and I loved the projections!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; CPDTDF; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2157,6794,'Ross','rosebud@gmail.com','','86.15.171.74','2011-01-30 18:13:56','2011-01-30 18:13:56','That\'s Amazing news, look forward to watching them!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5','',0,0),(2164,7230,'Katcav','kcavadino@gmail.com','http://katcav.wordpress.com','92.234.214.140','2011-01-30 19:53:33','2011-01-30 19:53:33','Dashboards like Hootsuite let you write one status and send it to twitter, Facebook, and Facebook pages at once - you can have a Facebook account without ever actually opening Facebook :)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5','',0,0),(2239,7423,'Pedro Palou','pedropalou@me.com','','129.170.241.160','2011-02-04 14:53:13','2011-02-04 14:53:13','David\r\nI´m very excited. I received today my copy of The Fallen Angel in EU (via Amazon UK), and I have ordered two days ago!\r\nThat´s fast. I am going to read it this weekend\r\nCongratulations\r\nPedro',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; es-es) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2227,7255,'Jan','laydilejur@hotmail.com','','95.14.168.22','2011-02-03 18:05:37','2011-02-03 18:05:37','Congratulations on the launch of Fallen Angel. I\'m really looking forward to reading it and it\'s great to have some background information on the characters that inspired the story.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5','',0,0),(2178,7359,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-31 09:31:42','2011-01-31 09:31:42','I still like to do the final draft in Word actually. You get to see the whole thing, not its component parts, which is how readers will view it. Not sure whether these features will all make it into Scrivener for Windows frankly - it is one version behind the Mac I\'m afraid.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2177,1),(2182,7359,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.45.138','2011-01-31 11:41:48','2011-01-31 11:41:48','Compile\'s only a tad complex? Much harder than that for me. Don\'t understand a lot of what\'s going on there frankly, but I suspect most people don\'t need to.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2181,1),(2181,7359,'Eleanor Patrick','empatrick@aol.com','http://eleanorpatrick.wordpress.com','92.9.134.46','2011-01-31 10:39:28','2011-01-31 10:39:28','Excellent - great to see it visually. I love and use Scrivener for all my writing but find \'compile\' a tad complex. Thanks for this, David.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-gb) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2185,7359,'Gwen Hernandez','gm.hernandez@me.com','http://www.gwenhernandez.com','72.196.213.217','2011-01-31 14:42:30','2011-01-31 14:42:30','I\'m so excited about this feature. Thanks for a great overview!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2189,6646,'Gary','hafer@lycoming.edu','','96.253.219.21','2011-02-01 00:41:10','2011-02-01 00:41:10','David,\r\n\r\nThanks so much for the Scrivener insights. I hope one day to offer an (experimental) writing class at my college that focuses on Scrivener; I love the insights your posts give me.\r\n\r\nGary',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2191,6448,'Pedro Palou','pedropalou@me.com','','65.96.5.139','2011-02-01 04:53:29','2011-02-01 04:53:29','I want to know when it will be available in the United States. I have tried with IBooks and Itunes but it´s impossible\r\nI have already ordered in amazon.co.uk the new Costa novel. I´m a big fan myself of your books. I am a Mexican writer and haven´t been translated into english but one of my novels is already published in Italian, Il Denaro del Diavolo, B.C. Dalai Editore. Its a historical mistery with Pio XI and the Nazis in the middle of the story.\r\nCongratulations, Maestro!\r\nPedro Angel Palou',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; es-es) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2201,7359,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.14.119','2011-02-01 15:47:21','2011-02-01 15:47:21','The Scrivener Forum - you can go there through the Help menu is always a good place to get direct individual help too... Unless you want comments a plain rtf export to Word or Pages works fine in my experience.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2200,1),(2202,7359,'Hardware for On-the-Go Writing | (Semi) Intellectual Blathering','','http://www.intellectualblathering.com/archives/2925','67.205.61.213','2011-02-01 16:33:47','2011-02-01 16:33:47','[...]  [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.0.4','pingback',0,0),(2416,7478,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.7.91','2011-02-19 11:07:02','2011-02-19 11:07:02','I probably met him somewhere along the way. Flyer was the first ever dtp-produced newsstand colour magazine that did everything, including colour separation, directly through the Mac via DTP. We even featured in a BBC TV programme at the time with Michael Bywater.\r\n\r\nHave to say it felt as if we were breaking new ground too - some pages took all night to get out of the Linotype.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2415,1),(2199,7385,'Tweets that mention The Best of British Crime 2011 -- Topsy.com','','http://topsy.com/davidhewson.com/2011/02/the-best-of-british-crime-2011/?utm_source=pingback&amp;utm_campaign=L2','208.74.66.43','2011-02-01 11:50:44','2011-02-01 11:50:44','[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by David Hewson, Lorelei King. Lorelei King said: RT @david_hewson: New post: The Best of British Crime 2011 http://davidhewson.com/?p=7385 [...]',0,'1','SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.712','pingback',0,0),(2200,7359,'Mike Morrell','mamorrell@gmail.com','','174.52.74.230','2011-02-01 15:45:38','2011-02-01 15:45:38','Just hope I can remember where to find these tips when I am finally ready to compile....still a few days off, I am afraid...thanks for the wonder posts....',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8','',0,0),(2195,6448,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.14.119','2011-02-01 08:00:59','2011-02-01 08:00:59','Hi Pedro. You\'re not the only one! I gather there have been technical problems at the US end which Macmillan are working on now. There are no reasons from my end why it shouldn\'t be available. Supposedly it should be fixed soon -- very annoying I must say.\r\n\r\nGood luck with the book in Italy!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2191,1),(2212,6794,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.14.119','2011-02-02 10:59:22','2011-02-02 10:59:22','Thank you!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2207,1),(2307,7428,'Robb','robboyd@cisco.com','http://www.techwisetv.com','72.163.0.129','2011-02-10 17:21:53','2011-02-10 17:21:53','Great insights, thank you for sharing. I came across this as I prefer my Mac in most situations but I also have a tiny windows PC that I sometimes prefer to write on especially on planes where I have no room for a big laptop.  Do you have any idea of syncing between two different scriveners?  one on the the Mac and one on the PC?  This violates your principle of reading in word for a different perspective...but curious if you have thought or played around with it.  I am going to try the word route now and thus may realize that this question is stupid...but so be it!\r\n\r\nThanks!\r\n\r\nRobb',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2240,7423,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.14.119','2011-02-04 15:15:25','2011-02-04 15:15:25','My.... that is quick. It should only be going into book stores in the UK today.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2239,1),(2207,6794,'mandy','mandycravenuk@yahoo.co.uk','','213.122.87.245','2011-02-02 01:04:02','2011-02-02 01:04:02','At last something to look forward to on television.Absolutely love your books David and have every one of the Nic Costa series ,such a joy to lose oneself in the twists and turns of Italian crime.Thank you for all your hard work and look forward to many more great reads.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)','',0,0),(2208,7359,'Jim','Jimcarroll@pobox.com','http://Jimocarroll.com','75.121.154.15','2011-02-02 05:03:02','2011-02-02 05:03:02','Be very careful using Dropbox to store Scrivener \"projects\" as in the example of collaborating across platforms.  Dropbox handles a project not as a file, but as a folder.  It is possible to lose a lot of work if you save a project to Dropbox in hopes of opening it on a computer other than the one from which it was saved.  \r\n\r\nInstead, back up the project to Dropbox, selecting the \"zip\" option.  Then Dropbox will have but a single \"file\" to deal with and the integrity of your project will be ensured.  To open it on a different computer, first download the zipped backup from Dropbox, then extract the project and work on it, then back it up to Dropbox as a \"zip\" file once again.\r\n\r\nDon\'t make the mistake I did, not comprehending that a Scrivener project is not a file, but a folder with complex indices.  I lost many hours of writing as the fruit of my ignorance.  It cannot be recovered.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8C148','',0,0),(2209,7359,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.14.119','2011-02-02 08:00:38','2011-02-02 08:00:38','I have written about that quite a lot. The interesting thing is that Keith, Scrivener\'s developer, now says he stores the original Scrivener file in Dropbox, against all usual advice, because he thinks the risk is low. Though he does make sure to back up each time elsewhere.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10','',2208,1),(2308,7428,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.2.146','2011-02-10 17:30:14','2011-02-10 17:30:14','I don\'t think Scrivener for Windows has syncing yet - though I could be wrong. So you\'d  have to open and manage the files manually I guess. Someone on the Scrivener forums might have a better idea - just not tried S for Windows yet much.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13','',2307,1),(2257,5654,'Ruth Barrett-Danes','Ruthdbd@hotmail.com','','81.147.144.223','2011-02-05 18:56:59','2011-02-05 18:56:59','Yes the BOOTSs, the boots!!!\r\n But for me I shuddered at the impact those heels would have on the fragile surfaces she strutted across. How insensitive can you be to the historical environments you are in? Why did we need to dwell on her eye makeup and her constant meandering up and down when the images themselves were all we needed to see? \r\nThis was like a first year media student attempt at a documentary.\r\nMust DO BETTER .\r\nSo please get these half baked presenters off the screen and give us some credence for a few brains cells.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; eSobiSubscriber 2.0.4.16; InfoPath.2; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NE','',0,0),(2350,7428,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.2.146','2011-02-13 18:17:45','2011-02-13 18:17:45','Good question - I miss OneNote and intend to try running it under Parallels. Most of the notes stuff is in Evernote now, which is pretty good but nowhere near as good as OneNote. MacJournal could do it too but Evernote runs on my Android phone and Windows and iPad so it\'s very good for jotting down stuff on the move.\r\n\r\n<strong>Update</strong>. Parallels is utterly unusable on an 18 month old MacBook Pro. Waste of money. So slow you wait five minutes or more for OneNote to load. Ridiculous.... Works fine in Boot Camp but that rather destroys the idea. Back to Evernote...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2344,1),(2322,7448,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.2.146','2011-02-11 17:23:57','2011-02-11 17:23:57','I think the US is simpler than most places once you get a Tax Identification Number. It\'s elsewhere where you need forms stamping by an HMRC office when it gets really sticky.\r\n\r\nThese forms just come through my agent from the foreign publisher and it\'s down to me to get them signed since they are to do with my own tax account. It never used to be a problem when you could walk into your local tax office. It is now.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13','',2319,1),(2417,7478,'Peter Labrow','peter@labrow.com','http://blog.peterlabrow.com/','86.8.49.110','2011-02-19 12:07:22','2011-02-19 12:07:22','Your addition of e-book export really caught my eye. I\'ve spent ages using various tools and coding .epub and .mobi by hand - (well, they are \'only\' XML files in a .zip really) despite the claims by Pages/InDesign to export to one or both of these, the files created don\'t validate so are typically refused automatically by electronic distribution channels. Straight to .epub and .mobi from Scrivener is very, very interesting. I\'ll have to spend some time experimenting.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2344,7428,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','91.125.121.202','2011-02-13 09:51:09','2011-02-13 09:51:09','Fascinating stuff David. Thanks for sharing. I\'m curious though – now you\'re writing in Scrivener again, to what extent does OneNote play a part in the process? Are you still using it, or have you returned to MacJournal for the book diary function?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-gb) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2444,7428,'JRP','jr_parsons@verizon.net','','98.119.4.205','2011-02-20 18:08:59','2011-02-20 18:08:59','Re Growlybird. I found the primary colors annoying, but you can easily mute or select your own or none. Also has two view modes--one with top tabs, the other with everything on left.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5','',0,0),(2394,6794,'Cari','carolineinroma@yahoo.it','','82.41.24.19','2011-02-16 19:02:05','2011-02-16 19:02:05','Fabulous news...! Congratulations and Best Wishes! \n\nI just bought Fallen Angel yesterday afternoon and couldn\'t put it down till I finished last night...(was a little tired today) But, it was so worth it. Well done again.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; yie8)','',0,0),(2418,7478,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.7.91','2011-02-19 13:10:33','2011-02-19 13:10:33','I really recommend the Scrivener forums. They\'re full of really helpful people who know this complex stuff inside out and have usually hit any problems long before the rest of us.\r\n\r\nGood luck -- it\'s all beyond me and I\'m happy for it to stay that way!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2417,1),(2387,6794,'Anita','anitagylseth@hotmail.com','','85.45.141.133','2011-02-16 07:42:59','2011-02-16 07:42:59','With a dizionario at hand, I read your books in 2 days. Heading back to Rome in a week and going straight to one of the Via Cenci restaurants.  I actually love Piperno nearby.  Deep fried artichokes I cannot wait! When I am in Venice I see a new layer of life there.  Thank you for giving me new insight into my favourite travel destination. I am sure the series will be a great success.Anita.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2385,7428,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','91.125.121.202','2011-02-15 21:36:02','2011-02-15 21:36:02','I\'ll cross that one off the list then – I have the same mid 2009 MBP. I find Devonthink works best for me. It copes with everything I can throw at it, and selectively syncs with the iPad. I\'ve tried Evernote but, no thanks, it\'s not for me.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-gb) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',2350,0),(2371,6794,'Hester','hstanhope1806@gmail.com','','69.47.202.6','2011-02-14 20:20:31','2011-02-14 20:20:31','Or...Billy Crudup!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2389,6794,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.7.91','2011-02-16 09:17:49','2011-02-16 09:17:49','Thanks - but you\'ll actually find the restaurants around the corner from Cenci, around the Piazza delle Cinque Scuole and in the Via del Portico d\'Ottavia.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2387,1),(2368,6794,'Hester','hstanhope1806@gmail.com','','69.47.202.6','2011-02-14 17:17:04','2011-02-14 17:17:04','Nic Costa = James Franco',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2369,6794,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.2.146','2011-02-14 17:18:51','2011-02-14 17:18:51','You\'re not the first one to make this suggestion.... but honestly casting is a long way off, and given this is meant to be a series I\'d suspect very well known actors might not want to make such a commitment. But who knows?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2368,1),(2415,7478,'Lesley Cookman','lesleycookman@yahoo.co.uk','http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk','87.113.2.24','2011-02-19 09:49:13','2011-02-19 09:49:13','This is fascinating, David. My late husband was at the forefront of DTP, one of the first Apple Trainers in the UK and before that with Which Computer, with whom I started my journalistic career.  I\'ve had Macs ever since and would never have anything else, but I strongly disapprove of the attitude and have resisted an iPad, while graciously receiving a Kindle from the family for Christmas.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6','',0,0),(2437,7492,'Jenni Holbrook-Talty','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','70.184.11.159','2011-02-20 13:13:56','2011-02-20 13:13:56','I\'ve been looking for something to keep track of my to do list that isn\'t pen and paper. I have an Android phone, so this looks like it could be promising. I can always count on you to find interesting things to at least try.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2448,7428,'JRP','jr_parsons@verizon.net','','98.119.4.205','2011-02-20 22:29:18','2011-02-20 22:29:18','Agree with the Evernote usefulness. As an aside, the GrowlyBird Notes programmer worked for Microsoft programming for latest version of Word/Office.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5','',0,0),(2443,7428,'JRP','jr_parsons@verizon.net','','98.119.4.205','2011-02-20 18:06:14','2011-02-20 18:06:14','Wondered if you\'d run across this free Mac program, which shares several characteristics with OneNote: http://www.growlybird.com/GrowlyBird/Notes.html',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5','',0,0),(2447,7428,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.114.7.91','2011-02-20 21:40:19','2011-02-20 21:40:19','New one on me. There are some good notes apps around. But what I really like about Evernote is the ability to use and enter notes on my phone or a tablet. It makes the whole experience so much more useful. I think you can do that with OneNote and a Windows 7 phone. But Evernote can do it with pretty much anything.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2444,1),(2539,7508,'Janine','janinesclayson@gmail.com','http://janinesclayson.blogspot.com','174.52.98.142','2011-02-27 16:49:34','2011-02-27 16:49:34','I think Gaiman\'s right in terms of someone who borrows a book from a friend or from the library (which is partly why I\'m saddened by Harper Collin\'s recent decision on libary ebooks) because people who borrow a book from a friend, or get it from a library, are respecting the copyright of the author. Sure, they\'re reading for free, but not illegally. I would NEVER download an illegal book, but I happily patronize my library (ebook and paper) and then Gaiman\'s right: I am more likely to buy a future book by an author because of something I read for free.\r\n\r\nPeople who are willing to steal books will probably continue to steal, rather than buy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2470,7255,'Dianna Campbell','ausdog521@cox.net','','98.166.56.181','2011-02-21 17:41:55','2011-02-21 17:41:55','Thank you for all of your books.  I can hardly wait to get \"Fallen Angel\" here in the U.S.  I love Rome (all of Italy), Caravaggio, history, and all things Italian, so when I discovered your books I was ecstatic!  All my favorite things mixed in with wonderful characters and descriptions of the city.  Over and over I keep saying to myself, \"I know exactly where that is\", or \"I\'ve been there\".  You make it all come alive again for me. Thank you, thank you!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDC; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2537,7508,'Nikki','nikkikolrobi@gmail.com','','96.238.245.222','2011-02-27 16:47:52','2011-02-27 16:47:52','Great post.  It\'s interesting that some people who would never think of shoplifting lipstick or five-finger discounting a hardback book in a store, or dine-and-dashing in a restaurant have no problem pirating other people\'s intellectual works.  I have no idea how to combat the problem.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2538,7508,'Gordon','gordon@hudson.nu','http://www.ecalpemos.org','77.99.112.58','2011-02-27 16:49:23','2011-02-27 16:49:23','That web site is actually hosted in the Netherlands at IP address 89.248.172.172, not in the Ukraine. Therefore its under Netherlands jurisdiction. A publisher could get it taken down fairly easily, but I guess it would just keep moving around.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2464,7478,'David Alastair Hayden','davidalastairhayden@gmail.com','http://www.dahayden.com','99.13.206.37','2011-02-21 09:36:08','2011-02-21 09:36:08','I\'m not sure how the Apple in-app subscription thing will shake out. It\'s not popular. I think their point of view is to make everything simple for the user who will only need an iTunes account to purchase things. I get that, but I still think it\'s a bad idea for all the reasons stated already. I\'m hoping they\'ll give up on it, or modify the terms at least. I\'m also wondering if it\'s a power play against Amazon or Random House.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2535,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-27 16:23:04','2011-02-27 16:23:04','Sorry but I just don\'t believe the \'if they steal this book now they\'ll buy the next one\' argument. What they\'ll do is steal the next one and the next one after that.\r\n\r\nIf you buy ebooks through Kindle or iBooks you can get a substantial sample for free before buying already. So what you suggest about 33% happens now in effect.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2534,1),(2463,7478,'David Alastair Hayden','davidalastairhayden@gmail.com','http://www.dahayden.com','99.13.206.37','2011-02-21 09:33:58','2011-02-21 09:33:58','The export to epub and mobi from Scrivener works extremely well. I have exported my manuscripts to my iPod touch so that I can easily review them and for current works do final edits. That way I no longer need to print out paper versions.\r\n\r\nWhether distribution channels would accept them, I cannot say. However, they do look perfect when I use them.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',2417,0),(2530,7501,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-26 22:04:25','2011-02-26 22:04:25','I pulled in a 120K Scrivener Mac file into the beta and it seemed to work fine. Must admit I didn\'t spend a lot of time in it - but this is a beta. So I wouldn\'t risk real work there.\r\n\r\nI agree there is a plethora of writing tools right now. Important to find one that works for you.. and stick with it. Not keep thinking some miracle is round the corner.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2529,1),(2531,7501,'Reacher','reacher@libertine.org','','24.128.50.10','2011-02-26 23:44:08','2011-02-26 23:44:08','Definitely is good news that Scrivener is coming along on Windows, but the key phrase is \'coming along.\' The current beta behaves more like a pre-alpha (bloating up to 2GB of memory usage, crashing every time you sneeze, etc). It needs probably another six months of development at its current pace to be a stable working environment.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.119 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(2471,7478,'Chris Boese','christine.boese@gmail.com','http://christineboese.net','76.15.146.245','2011-02-21 19:05:10','2011-02-21 19:05:10','I\'m a bit confused here at the conflation of the App store as a vehicle for distribution and the iPad as a device.\n\nBy all means, boycott the App Store distibution method until Apple gets its head screwed on straight. Yes, that is a key market, but one can make nominal apps that simply redirect to a browser-like experience.\n\nThe main advantage of the iPad is its device-ness. Don\'t be distracted by the momentary fad of the distribution audience as a closed and walled garden. The iPad runs Safari. \n\nThe reason the internet is so robust is not because of walled gardens, but because of the open publishing model of the Web itself, HTTP, the hyperlink, the Universal Resource Locator. ANY publisher (especially Murdoch) divorces him or herself from that basic model at their peril, and risks being a platform of the moment, until the crowd moves on, or until the web itself supercedes the moment and eats the garden.\n\nThe power of the iPad is its portability, the resolution of its screen, and the fact that it is a powerful on-ramp to the Internet at large. The reduced functionality of \"apps\" is an absurd limitations. \n\nYou know that browsers will be/are reading epubs with ease, right? What\'s the problem? The internet routes around blockages (even if the blockage is Apple) with ease, and has yet to be defeated. Trust the robustness of the basic model, and trust the iPad to deliver a crisp screen and the ability to display interactive documents.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 Glue/4.5 GTB7.1','',0,0),(2536,7508,'sandra murphy','s.murphy145@btinternet.com','http://sandramurphy.blogspot.com','86.152.83.85','2011-02-27 16:36:04','2011-02-27 16:36:04','Very worrying. \r\n\r\nExactly part of my concerns when I was researching around the motivations for self-publishing. There\'s no way I would be able to know how to deal with that. \r\n\r\nIronic that I\'ve posted my critique to my blog. At least it\'s not fiction I suppose.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; YPC 3.2.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; yie8)','',0,0),(2489,23,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.115.82.132','2011-02-23 08:22:45','2011-02-23 08:22:45','Someone mentioned this before. I do seem to recall it\'s not quite the full font set you get when you pay for, though that may not matter to most people.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2484,1),(2534,7508,'Gill James','gill.james@btinternet.com','http://www.gilljames.co.uk','86.139.246.67','2011-02-27 16:18:37','2011-02-27 16:18:37','Yes, you are absolutley right. Sites that display copyright material like this are actually breaking all sorts of laws and should be taken down.Their owners should be prosecuted.\r\nNeil Gaiman recently wrote about how actually the first time we meet nay new author we have usually borrowed a book. His sales go up every time he is pirated. \r\nYet I worry about the illegal poster\'s intention. It was to share a great book, for free, with all of their followers. The great book idea I like and this may lead to sales  The \"for free\" deprives me of an income. \r\nThis could all be easily resolved if only these people displayed just a proportion of the book e.g. 33%. They could still earn their brownie poitns for spotting a good read and we might make some extra sales.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2484,23,'Reacher','reacher@libertine.org','','24.128.50.10','2011-02-23 01:33:27','2011-02-23 01:33:27','I\'m going to give P22 Typewriter a try. BTW, P22 offers it for free if you sign up for their mailing list here: http://www.p22.com/ihof/typewriter.html',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.82 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(2532,7508,'Dina Santorelli','dina@dinasantorelli.com','http://makingbabygrand.com','173.52.232.118','2011-02-27 11:52:25','2011-02-27 11:52:25','Yikes! Scary stuff. Thank you for posting.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2533,7508,'Magnus N','magnus@billingska.se','http://www.billingska.se','83.183.213.138','2011-02-27 12:02:17','2011-02-27 12:02:17','Great post as always.\r\n\r\nAs a bookseller trying to cope in this rapidly changing world I couldn\'t agree more.\r\nWe have earned ourselves a reputation as a bookstore that not only sell paperbooks but also ebooks. Over the counter.\r\nBut it\'s not enough, so we\'ll have to expand our little webshop to accommodate the (automated) process of selling ebooks there as well.\r\n\r\nBut it\'s expensive. Very expensive.\r\n\r\nThe webshop needs customized programming to communicate with the e-book distributors (we\'re hoping to have both our swedish as well as an english supplier) and that\'s not cheap.\r\nAnd the licensing fees and the cost of the data feeds involved are huge.\r\n\r\nAnd so far the amount of sale of e-books in Sweden isn\'t that huge as in USA (or England for that matter) but it\'ll probably get there.\r\n\r\nThe reason for doing all this of course, is a way to manage the declining sales of paperbooks. \r\n\r\nSo when some pirates in Ukraine - or Sweden for that matter (PirateBay) steals all this stuff, pictures, movies, music and now books, it destroys on so many levels. \r\n\r\nI like your choice of words - I\'ve often used it, when talking to my customers - \"fencing\". Because that\'s exactly what it is.\r\nIf anyone stole something and tried to sell it, not that many people would dare buy it or even touch it. They\'d know it was wrong and illegal. Maybe even dangerous. But when it comes to a digital file, that line of thinking dissapears. A shame really.\r\n\r\nAnyway, take care and keep those books coming. Love Nic Costa!\r\n\r\nMagnus',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2529,7501,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','69.179.152.69','2011-02-26 21:59:32','2011-02-26 21:59:32','I don\'t know about that.  Sure they\'ve got collections implemented alot earlier than anticipated, but they can \'t even get basic things like background/font color adjustments in place.  That plus all the crashing and the lost writing horror stories on their forum make it hard to even test the thing seriously yet.\r\n\r\nThey\'ve got some work in front of them before its worthy of being called a release version, IMO, but I\'m still holding out hope they\'ll get it right soon.  Admittedly, Word 2010 is actually quite awesome, especially judged against the expectations that previous versions left us with (2003 nearly killed my entire department, some 130+ people across the Americas before we were able to tame its behavior), but it required that I create a custom template and set up a bunch of custom keyboard shortcuts to simulate the behavior of the outline mode in every other mode since the outline mode cuts alot of the basic functionality (such as the ability to change the background color to anything other than white).\r\n\r\nIts just still so \"manual\" that I\'m tripping over myself trying to manage the things that Scrivener should be handling in a much more \"automagic\" way.  My primary writing machine is a 12\" laptop (Core2Duo 1.2gig that I generally keep running on one core to increase battery life and decrease heat; anything past 4 hours constant running time, even idle is a gift when running dual core as it tends to overheat and lock), and even with 4-6 windows open, Word 2010 is plenty peppy.  So far Scrivener is not, and every time I try anything other than simply typing text (clicking a button or any function in the menus, for example), there seems to be a 50%-50% chance of a crash.\r\n\r\nIn the mean time, I\'m just trying to be as forcefully helpful as possible with the developer of WriteMonkey in hopes of getting a super light yet functional enough third option in play.\r\n\r\nI know, I\'m being long winded and I sound really grouchy, but the upshot of all this is that there is an unprecedented level of choice in writing tools.  Anyone claiming they don\'t have the tools as an excuse for not writing should be tossed out of the club.  When I was a kid, mom used to scavenge paper that had been printed on one side from work and free ballpoints with all sorts of logos on them so that we could write, especially during the really lean years (anyone remember that first oil crisis? talking from the US here; in a small midwestern town during that nonsense with one parent temping and the other hoping jobs and often finding himself in a union strike for a whole summer, we didn\'t do much but play outside, read what we could get from our tiny old library with the carved stone Carnegie plaque over the doors and WRITE).  I\'m writing this from one of our new, awesome, cleanly well lit libraries.  Sure, I have my own laptop, but I am looking into a room of 20 nice newish DELLs with decent flatscreens where anyone could go for a couple hours a day and write using Google Docs (I\'ve got a decent template for that even; doesn\'t help with organization, but you can use the Docs main page for that if you can figure out what you\'re doing) or Big Huge Labs\' Writer (no organization to speak of, but a nice, simple distraction free environment), or any of what I am sure are several doze other web based, free services.  Heck, they\'ve even changed the way the machines are set up here lately.  You could plug in a thumb drive (you could easily get an old one for free if you asked around, or the Library sells nice 2GB ones for like $8 if can\'t wait and have a few spare bucks to burn) and use Open Office that they\'ve installed on all the machines for you.\r\n\r\nOr you could still go old school ... scrap paper and golf pencils anyone?\r\n\r\nNow back to your regularly scheduled programming.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2540,7508,'eric the half a bee','parparp@hotmail.co.uk','','95.146.201.18','2011-02-27 17:05:04','2011-02-27 17:05:04','I do not condone ebook theft - most seem to be run by very dodgy characters. However, I find it strange that you support secondhand booksellers. They too sell your work without you (the author) receiving any payment. After a long campaign at least libraries nowadays pay something.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; HPNTDF; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2545,7508,'Ian robertson','ian@griffithsrobertson.co.uk','','109.157.9.18','2011-02-27 17:25:46','2011-02-27 17:25:46','It\'s appalling that there is a generation of people who think that they have a right to steal other peoples labour just because it\'s on line. Can\'t abide e books they lead to this type of thinking and undermine the sheer joy of opening a real book',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7E18','',0,0),(2542,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-27 17:06:50','2011-02-27 17:06:50','The domain appears to belong to a Ukrainian outfit though. The details are with my publishers now - if they can close it down in the Netherlands I\'m sure they will try to. But it will just reappear somewhere else of course.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2538,1),(2543,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-27 17:08:30','2011-02-27 17:08:30','Where did I say I \'supported\' second hand book stores? I just don\'t complain about them, because they\'re relatively small and have been around for years. Though Amazon and eBay, and the rise of Oxfam\'s rapacious stores, certainly impact book sales in a way that never happened before. One author I know estimates that 50% of the books he now signs at events haven\'t been bought new. But at least they\'re selling something that was once bought and did pay something back for the people who produced it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2540,1),(2544,7508,'Gordon','gordon@hudson.nu','http://www.ecalpemos.org','77.99.112.58','2011-02-27 17:12:17','2011-02-27 17:12:17','I think the difference is that with a paper book you are buying the ownership rights of that copy of the book. When you sell it on you cease to have access to a copy. With ebooks (and MP3\'s) you are only buying a licence to read the book and have it on your ebook reader. You can not remove the file and sell it second hand unlike a paper book.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2546,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-27 17:27:51','2011-02-27 17:27:51','I think there is a way of \'lending\' a digital book through Kindle. In principle this seems fair enough - after all people pass on a book to a friend after they\'ve read it and no one complains. But that\'s very different to uploading it to a torrent site with hundreds of thousands of users.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2544,1),(2547,7508,'Jeremy','jeremy@printisfree.com','','94.173.26.179','2011-02-27 18:12:24','2011-02-27 18:12:24','The sense of entitlement oozing from your every word is frankly sickening.\n\nThe free market value of any infinitely reproduceable object is zero; if you don\'t like working for free then do something else.\n\nIt isn\'t theft. It is illegal, but illegal is not the same as immoral.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-gb; Milestone Build/SHOLS_U2_02.36.0) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17','',0,0),(2548,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-27 18:23:40','2011-02-27 18:23:40','If by \'sense of entitlement\' you mean I feel I have some intellectual rights over a book that\'s my creation alone, produced in the course of my commercial work then... yes, you\'re right. But I don\'t \'work for free\', any more than a shopkeeper who\'s the victim of theft sells goods for free.\r\n\r\nFreetard drivel about \'infinitely reproduceable objects\'  doesn’t impress me much frankly. Why don\'t you just write \'if it\'s easy to steal and I know I won\'t get caught then I will steal it and screw any writer who hopes to earn an honest living along the way?\'',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2547,1),(2549,7508,'David','echodawn.dawn@gmail.com','','86.163.57.171','2011-02-27 18:29:38','2011-02-27 18:29:38','Thick person. Did someone turn the computer on for you? (Like your Mom.) You\'ve clearly never written or composed (or thought) anything original in your life. Keep on stealing and there\'ll be no content. Grow up, you child, Jewemy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2547,0),(2550,7508,'Jazz','buzon_correo@yahoo.co.uk','','86.135.70.101','2011-02-27 18:37:00','2011-02-27 18:37:00','Dear Jeremy\r\n\r\nAt first glance your response seems frankly ridiculous, but there is a certain amount of eloquence that leads me to believe that you are an educated man, and so perhaps you can clarify the following points:\r\n\r\nYou claim you are sickened by David\'s sense of entitlement. In what way is he not entitled?\r\n\r\nYou made an important point. Sad but true, illegal is not the same as immoral. Perhaps you can show us the moral value in taking something that someone has produced to be sold and illegally constructing a service of distributing it for free without permission, thereby negatively affecting the livelihood of those involved in production and that of their dependents, all for your own benefit/satisfaction. \r\n\r\nI can\'t help but feel you see something that we poor ignorant fools do not; I suppose we are too concerned with what the law says.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',2547,0),(2551,7508,'Nick','thamuhacha@gmail.com','http://thamuhacha.com','86.15.39.253','2011-02-27 18:41:58','2011-02-27 18:41:58','Just to clarify, I am not sure Neil Gaiman said that his sales go up every time he is is pirated.  I think he said that his sales go up when his publisher gives books away in a promotion.  Which is quite different.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2534,0),(2552,7508,'TeresaD','desertpetiri@aol.com','','65.40.172.8','2011-02-27 18:45:14','2011-02-27 18:45:14','Jeremy - my goodness, your sense of entitlement is amazing.  You expect your employer to give you your paycheck every single payday for the work that you do.  I think your he should take all the money you made from work, and keep it for himself, or maybe give it to the poor.  After all:\n\"The free market value of any infinitely reproducible object is zero; if you don’t like working for free then do something else.\"  And since no employee is irreplaceable, that means your job is infinitely reproducible, and therefore it would be wrong of you to want to use the money to feed yourself and your children.  \n\nBut don\'t worry, we\'ll all be happy to receive the money you earned since we too will be on welfare after everyone steals our books. \n\nWake up, Jeremy.  A lot has changed in the world.  Every book in the world is infinitely reproducible since the creation of copiers and printers.  That didn\'t make it legal, or morally right to do so.  So why is you think it\'s morally and legally right to steal someone\'s words?\n\nDon\'t forget - if no author is ever paid for their work, there won\'t be books to read.  We\'ll all write them, and save them on our computers.  We\'ll decide it\'s not worth the effort, since we don\'t get paid for our work.  No one will ever see them, and that\'s a huge loss for society.  So keep stealing them, and watch the work dwindle to nothingness.  We won\'t have to worry about people like you stealing our work, because there won\'t be any.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2553,7508,'Pete','PDomican@yahoo.com','','86.144.82.9','2011-02-27 18:48:37','2011-02-27 18:48:37','Sad that Jeremy learnt how to write eloquently yet to reason so feebly.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2554,7508,'Jazz','buzon_correo@yahoo.co.uk','','86.135.70.101','2011-02-27 18:50:15','2011-02-27 18:50:15','Oh, and while you impart your knowledge on us, Jeremy, in what way is it not theft?\r\n\r\nI am hoping that by trying to work through those questions something in your intellect will flag up that perhaps you were a little too hasty in posting a reply to David\'s post here. It hasn\'t shown the best of your intellect.\r\n\r\nOn the bright side, I don\'t think you\'re in much danger of anyone stealing your ideas and reproducing it, not even for free.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',2547,0),(2555,7508,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.167.6.90','2011-02-27 18:51:55','2011-02-27 18:51:55','It is a criminal offence.  So those involved in it are Criminals if not technically guilty of theft.  \r\n\r\nJust because illegal does not equate to immoral doesn\'t mean that all things illegal are ammoral or moral.  \r\n\r\nYou could just as easily argue that burglary or murder is illegal but that doesn\'t necessarily make it immoral and hope to convince people that the behavour would be acceptable.\r\n\r\nI want David Hewson to keep writing books.  That means that unless he personally wants to meet this wish for free (which I doubt) I have to be prepared to pay him for this privilige.  \r\n\r\nMary',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDC; .NET4.0C)','',2547,0),(2556,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.189.23.94','2011-02-27 19:02:57','2011-02-27 19:02:57','Makes sense - promotion does sell',0,'1','wp-android/1.3.9','',2551,1),(2557,7508,'Mike','mike@hurog.com','','67.158.225.15','2011-02-27 19:21:32','2011-02-27 19:21:32','Jeremy is neither particularly bright, nor endowed with an admirable sense of ethics.  Sadly, he is typical of a rapidly-growing segment of society who take without giving and believe themselves so special that the rest of society should feel privileged to serve them.  \n\nMy wife and I make our living from writing.  She\'s written several NYT bestselling novels.  Currently, we\'re predicting the collapse of paid publishing within five to ten years.  We\'ll continue to produce the best books possible while it remains profitable to write. After that, we\'ll continue to write, but not publish, waiting for a time when it makes financial sense to release those works. Bad dogs get no treats, and immoral thieves don\'t deserve our work.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1','',0,0),(2558,7508,'Alan','inksmithy@gmail.com','','92.26.103.150','2011-02-27 19:29:02','2011-02-27 19:29:02','My biggest problem with buying books is cost. I can go through 4 to 6 books in a week, publishers have pumped the price of new books to a level I can no longer afford. \nSo what\'s the answer? \nWhile any writer would be foolish to ban his or her books from a library, if only libraries bought your books, you would need a second job.\nThe answer is a modified version of \"if you can\'t beat them, join them\"\nInvestigate the business model of the Caen Free Press. Offer downloads of your books at a realistic price. You have mentioned book trading on the web, but if you leave the web and head deeper into the internet, Internet Relay Chat is a veritable paradise of o2p file sharing.\nThe problem you are faced with is making your product easier to pay for than it is to steal.\nABE books and amazon are fine, but are ultimately a pain to use and navigate around. Amazon in particular has outgrown its original remit to the point that a search for \"archer\" will return bows and arrows.\nThere is an answer, but it can\'t be fully detailed in a comment like this. You have my email address, feel free to use it - I\'m selling nothing, ideas and conversation is free.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Desire_A8181 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1','',0,0),(2559,7508,'Alan','inksmithy@gmail.com','','92.26.103.150','2011-02-27 19:38:29','2011-02-27 19:38:29','Pardon the correction, that should read \"Baen Free Library\"',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Desire_A8181 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1','',0,0),(2560,7508,'Howard Shrier','hshrier@rogers.com','http://howardshrier.com','174.119.227.109','2011-02-27 19:42:49','2011-02-27 19:42:49','I know a lot of people who have been downloading music and films and TV ahows for years. I myself never have because I\'m a book writer and I know what a double standard it would be to cry foul over book piracy yet indulge in music swapping or downloading films, I\'ve tried to discourage friends from downloading but it\'s a powerful tide to swim against. Now my challenge is to instill in my teenaged sons a sense of the unfairness of piracy. Wish me luck!',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; YPC 3.2.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)','',0,0),(2561,7508,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2011-02-27 20:08:23','2011-02-27 20:08:23','In what format are books being shared? .pdf? .mobi? .awz?\r\n\r\nThere\'s some kind of new site called something like \"Lendle\", where Kindle owners can share their books with other Kindle owners. I don\'t know if this gets around the requirement of the publisher\'s approval for a book to be lent, but I think it\'s a really worrying development. A whole, central site, presenting itself as cheerily legit, devoted to sharing Kindle files, could be devastating.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2562,7508,'Pauline','pauline@catfriendly.fsnet.co.uk','http://www.spainbeachapartment.eu','95.150.145.24','2011-02-27 20:36:33','2011-02-27 20:36:33','David, you\'re absolutely right and I can\'t believe the small-mindedness of some people.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 BTRS31753 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2563,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-27 21:14:27','2011-02-27 21:14:27','The site above offers my book as everything from epub to mobi to pdf even to rtf (so you could rewrite it and repost it if you wanted). Once these things are cracked converting to other formats isn\'t a big deal.\r\nLendle sounds horrendous. I trust Amazon would eviscerate such a thing.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2561,1),(2564,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-27 21:21:37','2011-02-27 21:21:37','Books are cheaper now than they\'ve ever been. In actual terms, not adjusted ones. \r\n\r\nhttp://davidhewson.com/2010/08/inflation-in-the-book-business/\r\n\r\nIf you can buy my new hardback for under £8 shopping around now, when it would have cost almost twice that just a few years ago, I don\'t think this business is in need of a new sales model to keep readers happy.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2558,1),(2566,7508,'Avi Greenbury','ialoneambest@gmail.com','','93.97.238.217','2011-02-28 00:43:11','2011-02-28 00:43:11','That is a pretty false comparison, and repeatedly trotting it out does weaken your very valid position somewhat.\nThat lipstick was bought by the shop, and to steal it is to effectively steal its cost price from the shop and, assuming limited stock, deprive the shop of the income from the sale. For an ebook (or any other digital medium) the cost to copy is essentially free, so the loss is that of a potential sale, not the removal of some already extant value.\nWere these \'thieves\' to not \'steal\' David\'s books, he would be no better off - they would need to be buying those books in addition to not \'stealing\' them.\nThis is not to say that they are somehow right to do what they are doing at all, it\'s just that it would be nice if we could all stop confusing a breach of copyright law with theft.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-gb; GT-I9000 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17','',2537,0),(2567,7508,'Avi','ialoneambest@gmail.com','','93.97.238.217','2011-02-28 00:49:05','2011-02-28 00:49:05','It is not theft because nothing was stolen - nothing was illegally removed from anywhere.\nIt is a breach of copyright law, which is utterly distinct from theft.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-gb; GT-I9000 Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17','',2555,0),(2568,7508,'Reacher','reacher@libertine.org','','24.128.50.10','2011-02-28 00:56:09','2011-02-28 00:56:09','Sorry about this. It has to feel lousy to see a piece of yourself being passed around freely like this. Unfortunately, I see this only increasing as tablets and e-readers continue to grow in popularity. There\'s also no way to prevent ebook piracy the same as it wasn\'t/isn\'t possible to prevent digital music piracy.\r\n\r\nSome hope lies in that fact that 1) a certain % will refuse to read a pirated ebook out of moral obligation, and 2) that another % will prefer to read on real paper. This is why I think the future isn\'t as grim as it was for the music industry. It will take quite a long time before materials tech is advanced enough to truly satisfy paper aficionados with a digital device.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.119 Safari/534.16','',0,0),(2582,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 06:41:22','2011-02-28 06:41:22','Don\'t you think you invited that response with your opening remark, \'The sense of entitlement oozing from your every word is frankly sickening\'?\r\n\r\nPerhaps you could post the link to some cracked versions of the software you work on so we can all download it for free. I\'m sure your boss  won’t mind. Oh and by the way - don\'t you think there\'s an \'up front cost\' in developing a book, having it edited by professionals, distributed, given a cover, marketed...? \r\n\r\nI find it incredible to be called \'egotistical\' for wanting to be paid for my work. Presumably you get paid too? Does that make you an egotist as well?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2579,1),(2570,7508,'Lara Patel','lwilliams@runner.co.za','','203.113.239.48','2011-02-28 01:27:17','2011-02-28 01:27:17','That is assuming that the publisher is not stupid and incompetent enough to put all the copyright pages, titles and other crap like that in the sample, so the actual useful part is only 167 words.\r\n\r\nYou have samples of your own books on your own website so that people without kindles or ibooks - say, in the Ukraine for example - can check them out?  If not, why are you all so lazy?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 AskTbUT2V5/3.9.1.14019 Firefox/3.6.13','',2535,0),(2572,7508,'Alan','inksmithy@gmail.com','','212.183.128.74','2011-02-28 01:35:53','2011-02-28 01:35:53','I looked at your entry regarding whether or not cost is a factor and I have to say, I disagree with you. Looking at the figures in real terms is somewhat disarming, since the economy of then and now is so different.\nRegardless of that though, I think its obvious that the publishing industry really does need to find a new model, or get used to the fact that piracy occurs.\nDon\'t get me wrong here, I sympathise with you on this issue, I simply believe that it is time to banish that coil of dread in your belly which appears when you know you are going to be stepping out of your comfort zone.\nThe facts are, the capacity exists for your work to be reproduced almost infinitely, for no more cost than the rearrangment of some electrons. Take advantage of that capacity or someone else will.\nApologies for the wall of text, I\'m writing this on my phone, formatting can be awkward.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Desire_A8181 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1','',0,0),(2573,7508,'FMonkey','firemonkey2000@msn.com','','72.188.121.115','2011-02-28 02:13:43','2011-02-28 02:13:43','I can wholly appreciate the frustration felt by the author who is being pirated, as this is a war which will likely never be won.  However, I do believe that a previous commenter was making a valid point regarding the marketing of eBooks.  \r\n\r\nLet me first agree that creative works absolutely have value, and are a genuine product.  I am simply offering this point for consideration in the discussion.  I am not advocating piracy, regardless of anyone\'s moral or legal compass.  \r\n\r\nNow, let\'s consider some of the marketing models taking shape in the ebook realm.  Publishers are often pricing the ebook versions of the work above the print editions, significantly more in some cases. This is despite that fact that there are absolutely no production nor delivery costs associated with the digital versions.  How do you think this pricing model impacts the <I>casual downloader</I>?  \r\n\r\nSites like the one detailed in the post above are, believe it or not, one of the more cumbersome ways to download material.  There are whole sections of the internet, that predate the WWW, where one can find virtually anything and have a copy of it within 5 minutes or less, with no uploading peer necessary.  Imagine that, 2-3 YEARS worth of anything ever uploaded, just sitting out there for anyone to peruse and download at their leisure.  I could have downloaded and been reading David\'s entire library of work in a fraction of the time it took to compose this post!\r\n\r\nSo when Johnny New-e-reader goes out to grab his favorite new book, and finds a $15-17 price tag, while the hardcover edition is selling for $12, there is going to be a moment of decision where the casual consumer decides to become a pirate, or <i>click here to buy</I>.  I believe that many justify piracy because they feel like they are being ripped off if they buy the product - and charging more for electronic versions certainly does little to refute the claim.  \r\n\r\nAs stated in a previous comment, the content producers that figure out how to make legitimate (paid) consumption more convenient - and that includes pain in the wallet - than downloading a  pirate copy will win the war.  The success of Netflix or RedBox, vs the demise of Blockbuster further illustrates this point.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2581,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 06:35:41','2011-02-28 06:35:41','Most ebooks are the same price or cheaper than the physical version. Yes there are different models emerging, but none of them stand much of a chance if the products are just going to get stolen in any case.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2573,1),(2580,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 06:34:30','2011-02-28 06:34:30','You didn\'t read the post. It said the site hosted links, not content. They\'re fences serving thieves.\n\nInstead of offering sanctimonious advice maybe you should spend time thinking about the morality of enjoying material that requires you to go to illicit web sites and cracked copyright files in order to get it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2576,1),(2576,7508,'Bob','b@b.com','','76.105.146.168','2011-02-28 04:51:51','2011-02-28 04:51:51','Your understanding of the \"file sharing\" world is rather incorrect.\r\n\r\nThe people who host the website are not originating the content -- people are, who do not \"profit\" as a fence would, they \"profit\" by having access to the things others share. The hosters of the website profit -- if they do at all, through advertising and donations by members -- and most of the time (though can\'t speak to this particular website) said \"profits\" are not profits at all, but are meant to share the burden of maintaining the infrastructure rather than anyone getting rich. This is not to say embezzling doesn\'t occur, which it does on occasion, but it\'s not the norm or intention.\r\n\r\nRegardless, the people doing the work and reaping the benefits are not thieves or fences. At the lack of another word, they are \"sharers\" (excepting those few who do indeed profit off the enterprise). I say this not to try and play down their transgressions but to try and point out that they are a beast without another definition and to try to pigeonhole them as something they aren\'t (for example, fences, someone who attempts to profit on stolen goods). It is the same thing as showing your friends a copy of your book -- except that your friends are infinite and everyone can have copies at once. It\'s super sharing. This isn\'t something different so much as it highlights the flawed logical conclusion that \"showing what you have to a friend is OK\". A friend that borrows a book from my shelf and reads it in lieu of buying his own copy in the store is a lost sale for you, no different than someone who searches google on the way to Barnes and Noble and downloads it instead of buying it -- the only differences are:\r\n1) We\'ve all borrowed books for so long that it\'s ridiculous to think otherwise\r\n2) First sale doctrine which makes this act explicitly legal (as in, it\'s not just \"not illegal\").\r\n3) Technology allows us to do this on an exponential scale compared to simply lending out our books.\r\n\r\nWhen someone paid for a book 20 years ago, they paid for the content of the book as well as for a service -- to have this book reproduced, packaged prettily, marketed so they\'d know about it, etc. We live in a world now where the service of the publisher has been usurped -- technology has made it so their job can be done by teenagers in their moms basement in Ukraine so fast, and so cheap, that they don\'t even bother expecting money in return. This is a threat to publishers, not to creators. It is a joy for the writing community at large, because now there is no impediment to making your work available to anyone who wants to see it. For you, it\'s a threat to your livelihood the way you make it now, but not to its existence. You may have to figure out how to make money differently. You may have to deal with making less. But there will always be a market for good fiction, and if good fiction is what you make, then all you have to do is find it. Maybe you should spend your time opening a dialogue with your fans and figuring out how you can create a mutually beneficial arrangement (they receive your work, you receive compensation) rather than clustering a bunch into a group and calling them names.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',0,0),(2579,7508,'Jerry','Jerry@freeprint.co.uk','','194.34.7.145','2011-02-28 06:05:08','2011-02-28 06:05:08','It\'s disheartening to see that the enlightened souls here aren\'t willng to engage in debate rather than immediately descend to personal attacks.\r\n\r\nMy work is not infinitely reproduceable; time is a finite resource and the work I do is ongoing. I could, however, be replaced with a computer and the only reason I have not been is that the up front cost of developing the software is a barrier. One day that will no longer be the case and my skills, such as they are, will no longer be marketable.\r\n\r\nDoing something does not entitle the doer to payment. I\'d love to make a wage writing about one or both of my biggest hobbies, but no-one is willing to pay for it.\r\n\r\nThe argument that if no-one pays for books no-one will write is belied by the fact that millions of people write and aren\'t paid, and don\'t seek payment.\r\n\r\nI\'m sure I don\'t really have to explain why copying something is not the same as denying the owner the original, which is why unauthorised copying is not the same as theft.\r\n\r\n\"I wrote this, I must be paid\" is a misplaced sense of entitlement at best, and at worst chronic egotism.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',0,0),(2583,7508,'Jerry','jerry@printisfree.co.uk','','82.132.211.105','2011-02-28 08:11:23','2011-02-28 08:11:23','I don\'t work on software, and I\'m not sure where you got the idea I do.\n\nThere is an upfront cost to producing a book, of course there is. However, once produced, there is effectively zero cost in reproduction. That makes the fruit of your labour economically worthless. If food, or energy, or anything else were infinitely reproduceable at zero cost, they would be economically worthless too.\n\nOnce the upfront cost of replacing me with software is low enough, I will no longer expect to be paid for doing the work I do; my skillset will have been supplanted by automation. Expecting to be paid for something there is no market value in is egotistical; you have a right to earn a living, but not for just anything.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-gb; Milestone Build/SHOLS_U2_02.36.0) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17','',0,0),(2584,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 08:14:41','2011-02-28 08:14:41','Oh I see now... you\'re actually an economist. Very impressive.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2583,1),(2585,7508,'U.L. Harper','ulharper1@gmail.com','http://ulharper.com','96.229.184.123','2011-02-28 08:19:31','2011-02-28 08:19:31','I don\'t believe I\'m reading all this. I don\'t see why if someone offers a service they don\'t have a right to be paid for it. If I write a novel, yes, my ego says I should get paid...as long as I put it on the market. On the other hand, if I never put it on the market then nobody should get paid for it but me. Why isn\'t it that simple? I\'m entitled. Ego and all. By the way, I\'m egotistical, capitalist and not always fair, but I\'m also simple in this sense. \r\n\r\nSure the market place for books has changed. What once cost $27 now might be actually worth $5. Hence all these book store closures. And ebooks might be a big part of that. With that said, I should get my cut of $5. And yes a person can steal something that isn\'t physical. There are the effects of the item that prove it is there. For instance, it has a title and somebody has to download it. They\'re not downloading nothing. They\'re downloading something...that has a price, unless it is stolen.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)','',0,0),(2586,7508,'Jerry','Jerry@freeprint.co.uk','','194.34.7.145','2011-02-28 08:27:23','2011-02-28 08:27:23','The logic that enjoying material found on illicit sites is wrong because the sites are illicit is heartstoppingly circular.\r\n\r\nIf the practice wasn\'t illegal, then the sites wouldn\'t be illicit. Being illegal does not mean that the act is immoral.\r\n\r\nAny P2P site hosts links and not content; that\'s the nature of P2P. Would your objection be lessened if the site you\'d found had been completely free?',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)','',2584,0),(2587,7508,'ShaolinTiger','shaolinbadboy@hotmail.com','http://www.shaolintiger.com','60.49.183.34','2011-02-28 09:27:12','2011-02-28 09:27:12','I guess none of you have ever lived in a country where it\'s virtually impossible and economically ridiculous to purchase books legally?\r\n\r\nIf someone has no way of getting hold of a physical book (no bookstores, or bookstores that don\'t stock decent books),  paying for an electronic copy (no credit card, no PayPal account or whatever methods you as an author accept for electronic copies of your books), or doesn\'t have the economic purchasing power to buy the book even if it is for sale; but they have a desire to read them - what exactly are they supposed to do?\r\n\r\nWhy don\'t you rant about the book pirates photocopying books in the back streets of India because those chaps can\'t even afford the computers to view the \'pirate\' books.\r\n\r\nPersonally I think everything is entitled to read and with the way the global education system is going and the MTV generations with attention spans in the seconds - I\'m personally glad people ARE reading at all. Even if they have to do so by infringing copyright and the intellectual property of an individual.\r\n\r\nAll my published work is under creative commons, all my projects are open source and I believe in sharing.\r\n\r\nI don\'t condone piracy, but I do understand why it happens. And yes, I live in a \'developing\' nation.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2588,7508,'Crimeficreader','crimeficreader@gmail.com','http://itsacrime.typepad.com','82.6.49.45','2011-02-28 09:31:36','2011-02-28 09:31:36','David, I spotted a Guardian article on Lendle yesterday.\r\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/16/new-sites-kindle-lendle\r\nIt appears that this is available in the US and that publishers were consulted with some controls over lending put in place.',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET4.0C)','',2563,0),(2589,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 09:33:40','2011-02-28 09:33:40','You live in Kuala Lumpur? My books are readily available there - I did a brief media tour there a couple of years ago. Lots of books on sale at the airport and a very good distributor for the whole of SE Asia in Pansing based in Singapore.\r\n\r\nThe argument about \'what about the poor people who want to read\' sounds very fine. But they would need to be poor people with a computer and an internet connection and the ability to speak English in order to go to these sites. Which makes me wonder how poor they really are (I don\'t think people struggling with poverty think much about ripping off books frankly). \r\n\r\nIf you want to give away your work that\'s your privilege. Just as it\'s the privilege of those of us who rely on writing for an income alone to choose not to.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2587,1),(2590,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 09:38:57','2011-02-28 09:38:57','Thanks for that.... if it\'s controlled I don\'t have a problem. Paper books get passed from friend to friend after all. I wouldn\'t want to stop people sharing books with people they know at all. This seems to be aimed at something a lot broader than that - lending to people you don\'t know. Bit different to bunging them on a torrent site I suppose.\r\n\r\nI do wonder if this whole business won\'t implode one day...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2588,1),(2591,7508,'byron','hatethisandi.llloveyou@hotmail.com','','163.1.28.148','2011-02-28 09:43:45','2011-02-28 09:43:45','Someone really misunderstood \'Free Culture\', huh?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.126 Safari/533.4','',2567,0),(2592,7508,'Crimeficreader','crimeficreader@gmail.com','http://itsacrime.typepad.com','82.6.49.45','2011-02-28 09:48:59','2011-02-28 09:48:59','Yep, it appears to be limited to once and for a two period only in which the purchaser cannot read the book.\r\nhttp://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_ecf_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&amp;cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&amp;cdThread=Tx1G2UIO9PJO50V\r\nA shred of hope that the spirit is maintained then...',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET4.0C)','',2590,0),(2593,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 09:54:30','2011-02-28 09:54:30','Will probably be very popular. Just like reading. Won\'t be surprised me if more books are consumed than ever before, and pay less than ever to authors and publishers behind them.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2592,1),(2594,7508,'ShaolinTiger','shaolinbadboy@hotmail.com','http://www.shaolintiger.com','60.49.183.34','2011-02-28 09:56:29','2011-02-28 09:56:29','Things have changed a lot here since I\'ve lived here (2004) and yes books are a lot more readily available now but they haven\'t been for the past 50 years which sadly here at least has destroyed the reading culture.\r\n\r\nI wasn\'t specifically talking about here or you books, more about about books in general and about countries like India, South America, Eastern Europe remote areas without access to physical book stores, countries which Amazon refuses to ship to, countries which credit card processors refuse (that\'s a problem I face a lot in Malaysia).\r\n\r\nAnyway your diatribe about piracy may have gained you another reader, I shall investigate your books.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',2589,0),(2595,7508,'Tony Lane','a.g.lane@anglia.ac.uk','http://iuchiatesoro.blog.com','194.66.160.11','2011-02-28 09:57:44','2011-02-28 09:57:44','unlike the music industry, publishers seem to have got the pricing just about right in my opinion. I can buy a good quality Kindle edition of a book for £3 in some cases. It would cost me more in lost time to find and download it illegally. Most people will not bother stealing something if they think it is a fair price (yes I know that is subjective).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2596,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 10:02:27','2011-02-28 10:02:27','Couldn\'t agree more. The industry is fixing price and distribution. We need to focus on persuading honest people not to go the piracy route, not hoping to reeducate pirates who\'d steal if a book cost 1p from Amazon. \nThe scale of what\'s going on though is quite shocking, and not much appreciated I suspect, and as I will write at some time, the spread of book theft runs far beyond young geeks.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2595,1),(2597,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 10:06:45','2011-02-28 10:06:45','There are issues to do with book availability in some markets. But I don\'t think piracy is going to answer them. Ebook distribution is still being built and there are rights issues to be settled before it can reach corners of the world like SE Asia. Technically this is mostly \'open market\' so my books can be sold there in UK and US editions, from different publishers for example. How that translates into a single ebook service I\'ve no idea... but a lot of people seem to be downloading Amazon Kindle now from Uk-based accounts which work anywhere in the world.\n\nBut rights are beyond me frankly.\n\nIncidentally India is one of the fastest-growing English language book markets in the world right now. I hope to tour there before long.\n\nSadly I only spent one day in KL, which was packed with interviews with some very knowledgeable book people, one of whom had read everything I\'d written (including a few titles I\'d forgotten about).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2594,1),(2598,7508,'N J Cooper','natasha.coopers@btinternet.com','http://www.njcooper.co.uk','82.45.211.87','2011-02-28 10:21:31','2011-02-28 10:21:31','Joining this debate rather late, I have to say that I think Jerry is completely missing the point.  The fact that there is no cost to the illegal copier of copyright material does not make that copying acceptable.  Nor does the fact that many writers write for nothing and are not commercially published.  This whole question is one of copyright, and the existence of electronic means of distribution have not changed or removed the laws of copyright.  Questions about the links between morality and law will always be debtable, but the law is the law, and copyright material belongs to the creator.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2599,7508,'N J Cooper','natasha.coopers@btinternet.com','http://www.njcooper.co.uk','82.45.211.87','2011-02-28 10:23:16','2011-02-28 10:23:16','Many apologies to all for hasty mistype in last comment.  I meant of course \'debatable\' not \'debtable\', though that\'s an interesting freudian slip, I think.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2600,7508,'ShaolinTiger','shaolinbadboy@hotmail.com','http://www.shaolintiger.com','60.49.183.34','2011-02-28 10:41:08','2011-02-28 10:41:08','Yah I agree, KL is a great place - you should stop by again some day. There\'s a lot more reading going on and well I honestly hope that Borders going bust in the US doesn\'t close down our Borders here too.\r\n\r\nMy more tech savvy friends do have Kindle\'s with US or UK accounts so they can get stuff legitimately. Some like myself pay through the nose for shipping from Amazon (if you buy one book it doubles the price) and some wait until they travel to buy books overseas (they are rather heavy though and destroy your luggage quota).\r\n\r\nSadly in many cases, it is easier and quicker for people to pirate it.\r\n\r\nAnyway just happened to read this article and found it quite pertinent:\r\n\r\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/and-the-award-for-the-most-dead-entertainment-medium-goes-to-the-web/',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',2597,0),(2601,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 10:58:27','2011-02-28 10:58:27','Would love another trip. That one lasted 26 hours and I hardly set foot outside the hotel. Book tours are not the holiday people think...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2600,1),(2602,7508,'Avi','ialoneambest@gmail.com','http://avi.co','80.87.128.54','2011-02-28 14:04:15','2011-02-28 14:04:15','Nope, I just mis-clicked and replied to your post rather than Jazz\'s somehow.\r\n\r\nI\'ve not read Free Culture; there\'s little scope for me to misunderstand it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12','',2591,0),(2603,7508,'Jerry','jerry@fake.co.uk','','94.173.26.179','2011-02-28 15:08:02','2011-02-28 15:08:02','I\'d contend that you\'ve missed my point rather than the other way around.\r\n\r\nI\'m not disputing that the act is illegal. I\'m disputing that the act is objectively wrong, and David\'s supposed understanding of how the people who share files (but whom he refuses to call file-sharers) do so, and to what end.\r\n\r\nEven setting aside all of the moral and ethical objections (which are an article of faith and not one of fact), the law CANNOT protect the self-declared right of a writer to be paid just because he wants to be. In purely practical terms, copyright is dead. The only way for publishing to survive is to make material available conveniently and cheaply enough that their target audience will pay for it rather than obtain it for free.\r\n\r\nNone of this changes the fact that David believes the world owes him a living.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/5.0.375.127 Chrome/5.0.375.127 Safari/533.4','',0,0),(2604,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 15:13:47','2011-02-28 15:13:47','You\'re really excelling yourself now. I don\'t think anything owes me a living. I\'d just like to be paid for what I produce when it gets consumed. Like anyone else. And as someone who grew up on a working class estate, surrounded by other kids who didn\'t have two pennies to rub together, I\'ve got an innate dislike for theft and thieves.\r\n\r\nBy the way will you kindly stop changing to a new fake email address every time you post a comment here. It\'s very boring having to approve a different one each time and I\'m not doing it any more. Shame you don\'t have the spine to put a real name or mail address to your opinions, but I guess that alone says something about what they\'re worth.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2603,1),(2607,7531,'Mark Polino','mpolino@gmail.com','http://dynamicsgpcookbook.blogspot.com/','97.104.105.84','2011-02-28 17:09:47','2011-02-28 17:09:47','I figured I would chime in. I\'m the author of a technology book on Microsoft Dynamics GP. Despite the relatively obscure nature of the book, it\'s been stolen and made available for download as well. Sending DMCA notices at least seems to have chased the theives behind signup and pay walls where hopefully downloaders will get what they deserve.\r\n\r\nMany of the arguments you debunk are even harder to sustain with my book. The book is expensive, yes. The software it support is so much more expensive that adding a book to the mix is a rounding error. Dynamics GP is targeted at English and Spanish speaking countries primarily. No need for Ukrainian site. \r\n\r\nEven worse, all of the material in the book originated from article on my blog. If you really don\'t have any money, do a little work with Google and you can still get answers you need. \r\n\r\nOkay, I\'m done ranting. Thanks for bringing this up. \r\n\r\nMark',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; Tablet PC 2.0; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM','',0,0),(2608,7531,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 17:29:15','2011-02-28 17:29:15','I do suspect that some of these people simply get a kick out of the act of stealing things and getting away with it. I tend to focus on low price commercial fiction, but more expensive academic and technical tomes... must be even more infuriating.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2607,1),(2609,7508,'FMonkey','firemonkey2000@msn.com','','72.188.121.115','2011-02-28 17:36:45','2011-02-28 17:36:45','After following this discussion, I am even more convinced that the publishers will need to make a significant change in course, or the problem will become much worse.\r\n\r\nI offer the following article as evidence:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_caps_loans_on_ebook.html.csp\r\n\r\nSo while Macmillan and Simon &amp; Schuster flat refuse to allow ebooks in public libraries, HarperCollins has decided that ebooks should only be allowed 26 checkouts per title.  Another blatant grab for MORE revenue than they had with paper copies.  So what is the life expectancy of a paper book, anyway?  I just saw a book from Isaac Newtons library on Pawn Stars...it has been making money in the secondary market for hundreds of years!\r\n\r\nAs long as publishers grasp at straws like this, there is going to be little sympathy for piracy.  Just ask the music industry...\r\n\r\nRecurring revenue is king.  The publishers need to quit trying to snatch as much as they can from the legitimate consumer on the initial sale, and bring more people into the fold.  Make it up with volume - Perhaps a subscription model?  \r\n\r\nI think the self-published authors are ahead of the curve here, since they do not have to operate under the burden of the machine.  I would be curious to see how an established author would fare financially if they directly marketed their material.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2610,7508,'Bob','b@b.com','','76.105.146.168','2011-02-28 17:44:18','2011-02-28 17:44:18','There\'s not a practical difference between hosting links and content. I\'m aware how Mobilism and other sites work.\r\n\r\nLooking at my journals, I enjoy about ~20 or so items of printed material a month without paying for it.\r\n\r\nI get it from the public library. Thanks for calling me names. The net effect on the authors of the books I enjoy is no different than if I downloaded them (except that the library books are denied another customer in the time I have them) -- but for some reason, one is bad, and one isn\'t. Strictly speaking, the library is way more convenient for me so I don\'t even have to make an ethical decision since one is just better.\r\n\r\nAs I said, calling the hosters of the site fences is not entirely accurate. Most of those sites do not aim to profit, but offset the cost of the servers. There are other, more efficient ways of obtaining illicit books on the dark damp Internet where no one exchanges a dime, because there is no additional infrastructure (a website, etc) required.\r\n\r\nI\'m not trying to offer sanctimonious advice or shift the moral blame onto you rather than others. I do find it so peculiar that as an artist you are so quick to rage on people who are interested in your work but do not have the inclination (whether through malice or circumstance) to pay for it. I\'m simply pointing out that you are not being replaced -- your publisher is -- and as long as you keep writing good stuff, I doubt you\'ll have any trouble keeping food on your plate.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2580,0),(2611,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 18:20:42','2011-02-28 18:20:42','This situation bothers me on two fronts. As I said elsewhere, I grew up in a working class community where people paid for what they used as a matter of pride. I have to earn money to buy what I want. I don\'t see why others should be able to buck out of that simple equation of social responsibility.\n\nThe other issue is that, while I\'m doing OK at the moment, largely thanks to being published in a range of different markets and media, I do know others tied to a single market and medium. And some of those are <strong>really</strong> hurting right now. Not because their work is unpopular, but because it\'s being distributed in forms which gives them not a penny in return for their hard work.\n\nThis is already driving people I know, good writers, out of this business. It will also serve to bar people from entering writing because they simply won\'t be able to afford to devote the time this business requires.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2610,1),(2612,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 18:26:51','2011-02-28 18:26:51','Libraries are a different issue. In most countries, though not the US, there\'s something called Public Lending Right, which gives authors directly a modest payment each year based on how popular their books are when it comes to library lending. Seems fair enough to me. I don\'t know what the situation is in the US but I can tell you - libraries buy books at deeply discounted rates. No one is getting rich selling to them.\r\n\r\nMost self publishers are selling tiny quantities of books, if they\'re selling at all, and will have to devote vast amounts of time and some money to marketing, begging people on forums and Twitter to buy their books, and other mindless crap if they want to sell a few more. \r\n\r\nWriters shouldn\'t be doing this. They should be writing. Could an established writer succeed through direct marketing? In my view only if they were a huge international brand name, which probably limits that to ten or twenty authors, mostly American, all of them English language. \r\n\r\nThis may change if the publishing infrastructure implodes, but even then the problem of book theft will remain. Unless you think book thieves are going to say, \'Hey - I\'ll pay for THIS one because it\'s been self-published!\'\r\n\r\nI don\'t.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2609,1),(2613,7508,'FMonkey','firemonkey2000@msn.com','','72.188.121.115','2011-02-28 19:23:06','2011-02-28 19:23:06','Nor do I.  \r\n\r\nLocks only keep honest people honest...DRM is even less effective.\r\n\r\nIt was the piracy discussion that originally piqued my interest here, but I have to admit that the synopsis of your book in the screen shot intrigued me.  I will be sure to check it out when its available on Kindle.  (Provided I can hold off on downloading the pirate copy for the next two months - KIDDING, of course!)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2614,7508,'Alison Runham','Alison2r@yahoo.co.uk','http://www.alison.runham.co.uk','2.96.104.5','2011-02-28 19:56:27','2011-02-28 19:56:27','Jerry said:\n\"time is a finite resource and the work I do is ongoing.\"\nEr...in what way is that not true for those of us who write? \n\nI have \'given away\' a story to 100 Stories for Queensland, an anthology being published  on 8th March with all profits going to the flood fund. I did so gladly and one day I might do it again, either for promotional purposes, another charity, a favour for a friend...who knows.\n\nBut like anyone else spending time using their talents, experience or qualifications in a time-consuming job, I would generally expect to get paid if the product or service I offer is wanted by someone. After all, I don\'t expect my plumber to work for free just because other plumbers have fixed the same problem before...',0,'1','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SU 3.23; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; GACID=; .NET4.0C; Tablet PC 2.0)','',0,0),(2615,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 21:13:34','2011-02-28 21:13:34','Thanks. It\'s out on Kindle in the Uk, of course, which is why it\'s being pirated already. But if you wait for the US edition it will be US spelling! And that\'s about it if I\'m honest.\r\n\r\nBut I can\'t wait for it to be out there, and for these many teething problems associated with the switch from paper to digital to work their way through the system. Will take years though...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2613,1),(2616,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 21:14:22','2011-02-28 21:14:22','I keep asking the plumber question too, Alison. Still waiting for an answer...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2614,1),(2617,7531,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','71.91.198.121','2011-02-28 21:27:53','2011-02-28 21:27:53','Yeah, I hear about that from time to time.  The mother of a good friend of mine is some sort of guru in special education (she\'s been getting invited to Cyprus every year lately to consult with their government\'s version of the Department of Education, among other things).\r\n\r\nShe has a fat text book that she updates (and sometimes completely rewrites) every 2-3 years, which is at least a $50 book and sells a very predictable but fairly low number (just not that many people getting specialized degrees in Special Education).\r\n\r\nWhen the last version went out in mid 2010, someone pointed out to her that there was a \"warez\" version of it readily available less than two weeks later.  Sales on the new version are nearly 20% off the expected numbers so far.\r\n\r\nWho knows what will happen to the sales of this version through the rest of its life cycle will be, but I\'d call that a very distinct and measurable impact from piracy of one specific volume.  Heck, it might even turn into a study in \"book piracy\'s impact on education,\" if she decides its not worth the time and effort to continue supporting her work.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',2608,0),(2618,7531,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','84.93.138.174','2011-02-28 21:32:24','2011-02-28 21:32:24','Shocking. And at some stage she\'ll say, \'Why bother?\' Because she won\'t be making much money  out of it at the moment.\r\n\r\nIn education for very small run publications there really is a very strong argument for proper copy protection in my view. Can\'t do that with general publishing, but with specialist high price books... yes.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.102 Safari/534.13','',2617,1),(2621,7558,'Alan','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','86.12.167.7','2011-03-01 10:36:06','2011-03-01 10:36:06','I\'m probably it the same group as the woman behind the bar but not only have I bought more I\'ve also read more!\n\nI still love my paper books though and the kindle won\'t ever completely replace them but I am looking forward to going away for my holiday next week and only packing the kindle (with Dantes Numbers incidentally), rather than what previously would have been 3 or 4 paperbacks.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8C148a','',0,0),(2620,7531,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','75.91.66.187','2011-03-01 04:57:04','2011-03-01 04:57:04','And last, but not least, my wife publishes poetry.  Some of her poetry is of a patriotic variety.  We drop by her Mom\'s, open the newspaper and see her poem turned into a major holiday advertisement for a Ford dealership. We later learn that two more newpapers carried the advertisement.  It was simple. Cut and paste. Delete her name and copyright. Job completed. Newpaper collects fees. Author collects zip. \r\n\r\nNot so fast. The author and her husband are brassy people. With newspaper in hand, we proceed to the office of the local publisher. We gain an audience with said publisher.\r\n\r\nI, in a meandering sort of way, discuss the possiblity of writing for his newspaper. During the course of the discussion, I share with the publisher that my wife now seated to his right had already written for his paper.\r\n\r\nHis blank look was a wonder to behold.  I hand him a copy of his newspaper folded to the advertisement. Then, I point out the material sans the author and copyright. \"Sir, I thought you might like to meet the author of the poem.\"  \r\n\r\nHis were the fixed eyes of a mouse pinned to the bottom of the trap. His white-knuckle grip indicated the possibility of impending danger. \r\n\r\nIt was fun. \r\n\r\nSomeone please let Jeremy know that if he has many friends with his philosophy, it\'s best they not do business with each other. I hear there is no honor among thieves.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2622,7558,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.142.222','2011-03-01 10:39:12','2011-03-01 10:39:12','Yes - that was said too. So easy to take everywhere and read on trains and places. And... \'Imagine being able to go on holiday without weighing down the case with books.\'\n\nMakes a lot of sense and I do find Kindle very pleasant to use, for books anyway, not newspapers. Thanks for buying the book - have a nice holiday!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13','',2621,1),(2623,7558,'Peter May','maypeter@mac.com','http://about.me/petermayinfo','90.60.146.100','2011-03-01 13:56:03','2011-03-01 13:56:03','You don\'t need to send a Word document to your iPad via Kindle.  Just email it to yourself, and there are any number of apps that will let you open and edit it.  I do almost everything on my iPad now, including proof reading my books.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2624,7558,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.142.222','2011-03-01 13:57:39','2011-03-01 13:57:39','True - but if you send the Word doc to your Kindle account it formats it and makes it look like any other Kindle book, not a manuscript. I find that very useful for reading drafts - and you can make notes too.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13','',2623,1),(2626,7508,'LynneB','lynnebat@googlemail.com','','139.133.7.11','2011-03-01 16:25:30','2011-03-01 16:25:30','Here\'s a problem I have, as a reader.\r\n\r\nAbout six years ago (yes, I know; a millenium in Internet Time) I dumped about £400 on ebooks.  Legally bought, legally downloaded, from respectable enough vendors -- Amazon was one of them, though I was downloading to my laptop, not a Kindle.  And they were Adobe DRM-protected .pdfs, much to my later regret.  But I jumped through all the hoops to validate them, and life was good.\r\n\r\nUntil my hard drive died.\r\n\r\nThat\'s ok, I thought, I have backups; this was the point at which I found out the hard way that Adobe DRM does not accept the concept of \"restore from backup.\"  I had to revalidate, except that it wouldn\'t let me; then I tried (after 45 minutes of expensive helpdesk calls to Adobe) the downloaded code which is supposed to reset validation, except that it didn\'t; then when I contacted Adobe again, they pretty much said \"too bad, contact the vendor to see if you can get them again.\"  Well, that\'s just great.\r\n\r\nI got all but one of them agin from the vendor; for that one, the vendor didn\'t allow re-dowloads and wanted another £45 for another copy of the book.  I can\'t buy books like that often, I don\'t have the money.  So, I have to take that loss -- an expensive text, lost to me.\r\n\r\nI got to go through that again when I got a new laptop.  Oh, I followed Adobe\'s instructions to the letter, and validated all my ebooks on the new laptop before I got rid of the old one; but about 5 months after I wiped the hard drive of the old laptop and sold it, an <i>Adobe software update</i> removed the validation of my ebooks, and Adobe\'s suggested answer was to revalidate the books using the original machine I had downloaded them onto!  Oh, and the downloadable code for revalidation didn\'t work again.\r\n\r\nSo back to download them again, only this time I couldn\'t get a third of the books, because the vendor had gone out of business.\r\n\r\nThen it all happened again, when a WINDOWS update convinced my ebooks that they were on a different computer.\r\n\r\nWhen I contacted Adobe by email saying \"I cannot be the only person in the world with this problem, there has to be a better answer to retaining access to products I\'ve legally bought\", I got a response in writing from Adobe\'s 2nd-line support:\r\n\r\n\"It is not our responsibility to ensure that you can use any particular product.\"\r\n\r\nWell thanks and a great big eff you to you too, guys.\r\n\r\nI swore, at that point, never ever to buy another ebook.  I haven\'t been able to keep that oath, unfortunately, since there are times that I need to get something I can take travelling with me, or that isn\'t going to take up a huge amount of my nonexistent shelf space.  I can say that Mobi have never screwed my access to something I have legally bought, and I can say that I am eternally grateful to O\'Reilly, who have a policy of allowing permanent access to an ebook you have bought from them on the basis of the account you hold, not the device you are using.  But an unfortunate four other times, I have found myself out of pocket and completely without access to something legally bought and downloaded.  In all, I have lost hundreds of pounds on things which I have been robbed of by the \"normal operation\" of the technology used to store and access it, and in several different software formats.\r\n\r\nBelieve me, I have absolutely no desire to hurt authors or publishers.  I have too many friends who make a living writing.  You absolutely deserve to be paid for access to your work, and I think the people who argue that \"digital reproduction is free\" are missing the point completely; giving away one\'s work for free is not morally reprehensible, but it should be a voluntary choice, not mandatory for everyone. At this point, however, if I want to retain the use of something I have <b>actually paid for</b>, I have absolutely no choice except to look for a pirated copy!\r\n\r\nIt\'s a system designed to punish the people who try to be honest.  I am imbued with a burning rage against the software providers who put me in this position.  But what exactly am I supposed to DO?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7','',0,0),(2627,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.142.222','2011-03-01 16:29:07','2011-03-01 16:29:07','Yes - that Adobe model of doing things is bad. Just the same with the old iTunes drmed music files - if you lose your iPod and don\'t have a backup you lose your music. \n\nKindle\'s model is the only way to go. When you buy through Kindle Amazon becomes your digital library, storing the books for you. Then you can read them on any Kindle device or through a Kindle app on a PC, Mac, phone, whatever. It even picks up where you left off on one device when you move to another. \n\nNo consolation I know for what you\'ve lost already. But a good reason for not doing business with anyone who doesn\'t back up your purchases for you. I don\'t think it\'s a reason to take it out on authors by stealing their work though.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13','',2626,1),(2631,7558,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','85.210.89.28','2011-03-01 19:14:06','2011-03-01 19:14:06','I too am like the woman behind the bar. I think the device is more conducive to impulse purchases. You don\'t feel like you\'re buying as big an item as you would if the book were physically solid, the purchase is quicker, there\'s less to show a significant other if you\'re prey to spending guilt, and there\'s nothing visible to haunt you if you never get round to reading it.\r\n\r\nSo maybe - just maybe - the e-world will be less unfriendly to authors than might be feared.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-gb) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2629,7508,'LynneB','lynnebat@googlemail.com','','139.133.7.237','2011-03-01 16:54:23','2011-03-01 16:54:23','I am suspicious of the Kindle model on two counts.  The first is simply because of their apparent basic model that essentially I am renting access to books that they still own; I know that they promised not to repeat the mass recall of bought books that they did in 2009, but it is only a matter of trust that they don\'t.  Nothing keeps them from removing content except for that promise.\r\n\r\nI\'m sorry, but I guess I am stodgy and old-fashioned, perhaps downright curmudgeonly in this respect:  I want to <i>own</i> what I have bought.\r\n\r\nThe second is actually their policy towards authors and publishers; I\'m referring, of course, to the battle which involved Amazon\'s weeklong shutdown of Macmillan titles last year.\r\n\r\nI don\'t disapprove of the idea of storing ebooks \"in the cloud\",and like I said, O\'Reilly have made a good go of ensuring access to ebooks they sell; but until and unless a book distributor comes along who I trust and trust to act ethically towards others, I\'m still in the same position.  This just isn\'t a good technology yet.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7','',2627,0),(2630,7558,'Geeky Mummy','liz@geekymummy.com','http://geekymummy.com','86.148.155.230','2011-03-01 18:21:31','2011-03-01 18:21:31','I love my kindle. I always thought I would prefer to feel paper, but in truth, I prefer reading on my kindle. It\'s a bit of a problem as e-books are usually more expensive so I borrow paperbacks when I can from the library but allow myself one e-book a month. I tend to only buy e-books that the library doesn\'t have and that are cheaper than the paperback version in principle.\n\nI also love that I can read a sample of a book before buying, it allows me to be more experimental in my reading choices. I do wish though then when you do buy the book you could automatically pick-up where the sample ended.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Desire_A8181 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1','',0,0),(2632,7558,'James Thorpe','thorpelyon@aol.com','','71.93.116.145','2011-03-01 19:43:37','2011-03-01 19:43:37','(everything except the iPad which doesn’t let me get the file for some reason, at least as far as I can see)\r\n\r\nWhat I\'ve discovered is that if I email a doc, or PDF, to my Kindle account, Amazon sends out a confirmation email.  If I click on the embedded AZW link in Safari (on the iPad), it will then attempt to download the file and I get a subsequent prompt to open it in my iPad Kindle app.  And once it\'s opened, it remains part of the \"library\" on my iPad.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(2633,7558,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.142.222','2011-03-01 20:28:37','2011-03-01 20:28:37','Ah - that\'s very clever! My problem is I want to make notes on an iPad Kindle doc which usually involves having access to a txt file in a folder on the device. Since you can\'t access the iPad file system that seemed impossible.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13','',2632,1),(2634,7508,'Bob','b@b.com','','76.105.146.168','2011-03-01 20:58:09','2011-03-01 20:58:09','I too agree that people should, as they are able (not to sound communist -- but lets be fair, some people were dealt a shitty hand and could use some leeway) pay for what they use. Taking this to its logical conclusion, it seems you are against libraries at all. Do you not like the idea of your information being available for free at the library? I would not think less of you if you did, of course, but I do think less of the opinion that using a library is 100% indisputably moral, right, and just, whereas downloading a book for free is 100% immoral and wrong, when the net effect to you is the same.\r\n\r\nYou speak of people you know who are being driven out of the business by the lack of financial reward. This is understandable, writing takes a lot of time and it\'s not easy to devote ones life to something if one must also have a career and support a family, etc. On the flip side, I wonder about people who never had a chance to show their work to anyone or make a cent, because they did not have the stomach to wade through agents and publishers but now can just as easily throw it up on the internet and share it with strangers easily. It\'s my estimate that this will help grow the writing community far more than the lack of potential future financial gain will stunt it.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2611,0),(2635,7508,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.142.222','2011-03-01 21:13:26','2011-03-01 21:13:26','Where do I say I\'m against libraries? I support libraries all the time with unpaid visits and talks. \r\n\r\nAs to the rest.. you\'ve lost me. Anyone who doesn\'t \'have the stomach to wade through agents and publishers\' isn\'t trying to get into this business because that\'s how it works. Not by uploading an unedited Word file to Kindle. \r\n\r\nAnd who is it who \'never had a chance to show their work to anyone\'? The rules are the same for everybody in this business. \r\n\r\nIt took me years to get published. I know best-selling authors who wrote 30 books before they got onto the shelves. That\'s what it often takes.\r\n\r\nA situation where something that should be paid for gets stolen right left and centre won\'t \'grow the writing community\'. It will just ensure that good writers will give up because they can\'t make a living.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13','',2634,1),(2636,7558,'James Thorpe','thorpelyon@aol.com','','71.93.116.145','2011-03-01 21:39:04','2011-03-01 21:39:04','Oh, I see.  The most useful app I\'ve found for file manipulation on the iPad is \"Filer\".  But that still may not be enough flexibility for your needs.\r\n\r\nBTW, the above trick also works on Kindle-formatted Gutenberg etexts... especially useful for any ebooks with illustrations or photos in them... so much easier to see on the larger iPad screen.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',2633,0),(2637,7558,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.142.222','2011-03-01 21:46:44','2011-03-01 21:46:44','No - none of the file apps on iPad will let you see the full file structure. So those text files stay out of reach. Very annoying - it\'s no problem with Android',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2636,1),(2638,7569,'Peter Labrow','peter@labrow.com','http://blog.peterlabrow.com/','86.8.49.110','2011-03-02 08:40:32','2011-03-02 08:40:32','David - it so happens you\'ve written about something that my day job involves (I run my own website design/marketing company). What I would say about Web fonts is go slowly, test thoroughly. If you are on a Mac, using a modern browser, some of the issues with Web font won\'t be apparent to you. Here\'s a blog, by myself, on the subject: http://www.webdesigndev.com/web-development/web-unsafe-fonts-–-common-issues-and-workarounds\r\n\r\nBest, Peter',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2639,7569,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.112.142.222','2011-03-02 08:52:20','2011-03-02 08:52:20','Good grief - I\'d quite forgotten that things look completely different under Windows. Just tried. None of these fonts show at all - even in Chrome and Firefox.... Back to the originals!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',0,1),(2640,7569,'Peter Labrow','peter@labrow.com','http://blog.peterlabrow.com/','86.8.49.110','2011-03-02 08:57:22','2011-03-02 08:57:22','I know! There are so many website designers who just don\'t test on different platforms, or only test on the latest - they simply have no idea. (You\'ll recall from our VMware conversations that I test on XP, Vista and Windows 7 alongside Linux and OS X.) Many developers don\'t bother. Worse, the pedlars of Web fonts seem to hide these dirty secrets. I uncovered most of this working on two current websites, one a newswire - and then went into pedantic testing mode, only to conclude that, for the most part (especially for body copy) the world is not ready for this technology. Sure, it\'s great and it will get there - but right now, it\'s a heck of a risk.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',2639,0),(2641,7569,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','91.125.198.78','2011-03-02 09:34:37','2011-03-02 09:34:37','I did know this - just forgot. A few years ago I bought a Wordpress theme that looked fantastic on a Mac. On Windows it was unreadable. Developer didn\'t know or care.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2640,1),(2643,7562,'Simon Whaley','simon@simonwhaley.co.uk','http://www.simonwhaley.co.uk','86.128.205.235','2011-03-02 11:41:25','2011-03-02 11:41:25','Ahh! Didn\'t know that worked with the Quick Reference panes too! \r\n\r\nFound Scrivener to be immensely helpful in getting to grips with the structure of my novel.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',0,0),(2644,7562,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','91.125.198.78','2011-03-02 12:02:32','2011-03-02 12:02:32','Glad to hear it - there are a lot of toys under the bonnet. Still many more to be discovered I suspect....',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2643,1),(2645,7562,'Nigel Blackwell','nigel.blackwell@sbcglobal.net','','76.221.86.39','2011-03-02 12:05:03','2011-03-02 12:05:03','Thanks, I hadn\'t found this. It\'s a great new feature. Better than just editing scrivenings were you could have disjoint sections, but in on single document view. Thanks.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B367','',0,0),(2647,7562,'Robert Heaney','rheaney@gmail.com','','69.132.57.153','2011-03-02 15:18:48','2011-03-02 15:18:48','I just discovered Scrivener for myself, and shortly after, this site. It\'s an absolute treasure of tips for the Scrivener rookie! Thank you, David.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2648,7562,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','91.125.198.78','2011-03-02 15:30:59','2011-03-02 15:30:59','You\'re welcome. Happy hunting - I only scratch the surface, and look for things that suit my own work.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2647,1),(2655,7578,'Peter May','maypeter@mac.com','http://about.me/petermayinfo','90.60.146.100','2011-03-03 14:50:56','2011-03-03 14:50:56','I use my iPad all the time, David.  I no longer travel with my laptop.  Music, email, web surfing, blogging...  I can write, edit, re-write and toss away anything I want.  But, tbh, I wouldn\'t want to write a book or edit it on an iPad or anything like it.  I love my MacBook Pro hooked up to a 24\" HD monitor for doing all my writing and research in two-screen heaven.  I won\'t be upgrading to iPad 2, though.  I have all the camera I need in my iPhone.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(2653,7562,'Laurel','ldecher@gmail.com','','71.241.129.100','2011-03-03 02:36:11','2011-03-03 02:36:11','Thanks for the tip! That makes it so easy to stay in full-screen and keep the details correct across scenes.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(2656,7578,'Barry Sampson','barry@barrysampson.com','http://barrysampson.com','93.97.163.178','2011-03-03 15:17:04','2011-03-03 15:17:04','Hi David, \r\n\r\nHave you tried Documents To Go? It is probably the most used app on my iPad. It allows you to access and edit Word documents from your DropBox (which is how I use it) or by using a desktop app to sync directly. It can also access Google Docs and various other services I think. \r\n\r\nIt\'s not as full featured as a desktop word processor, but it does allow you to edit in rich text.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2657,7578,'Barry Sampson','barry@barrysampson.com','http://barrysampson.com','93.97.163.178','2011-03-03 15:45:36','2011-03-03 15:45:36','PS. The tick box to choose to be notified of comments on your comment form is hidden beneath the Post Comment button in Chrome and Safari.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.107 Safari/534.13','',0,0),(2658,7578,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','91.125.198.78','2011-03-03 16:10:27','2011-03-03 16:10:27','I did try DTG and find it very useful on Android where you can see comments and track changes. It\'s SO cut down on the iPad though... found it very tedious to use really.\n\nSorry about the tick box - not sure how to fix that to be honest.... plugin clash with theme I guess.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2656,1),(2659,7578,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','91.125.198.78','2011-03-03 16:12:05','2011-03-03 16:12:05','I use it when I\'m travelling. At home it stays on the desk. I can write short bits and pieces on it. But I wanted to use it as an excuse not to print out hundreds and hundreds of pages. Nope...',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2655,1),(2660,7578,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','91.125.198.78','2011-03-03 16:14:54','2011-03-03 16:14:54','Actually am not convinced this subscribe to comments thing works terribly well at all. Will people scream if I remove it?',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12','',2657,1),(2663,7583,'Nilla','hi@westindesign.com','http://utanpunkt.blogspot.com/','','2011-03-05 18:08:00','2011-03-05 18:08:00','Does the documents come out copyright-\"safe\" (for a normal human, not the hackers, obviously)? I\'m asking because being a graphic designer myself, I was asked by a small publisher to put some of his titles on kindle format. But when researching, to get the file as steal-proof as possible, at least about a year ago, you needed to buy an Adobe publishing software for the staggering sum of £4000 or so. \nBy the way, I tried to download the free sample of your socks e-book, only to discover that the pages were unreadable. I guess that even a free sample becomes annoying when it comes out like that. Yes, I have talked to Amazon, and they replied with an ever so complicated instruction of how to re-do everything. I may one day. Not sure where the problem was though, in the actual file, or in Amazon\'s kindle reader for Mac.\nAlso, as a designer, I may add, if you don\'t mind, that I like the lightness of your cover, and the ferns are nice. However, I find it a little odd to have your (as in the author\'s) name in the same size AND colour as the name of your fictive character. First, I wondered if it was a play on names (is Judith your daughter/wife/sister, sharing the surname Hewson, perhaps?) It\'s kind of visually confusing, intriguing, yes, but perhaps of all the wrong reasons.\n\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):160959573','',0,0),(2664,7578,'Nilla','hi@westindesign.com','http://utanpunkt.blogspot.com/','','2011-03-05 18:16:00','2011-03-05 18:16:00','Yep, iPad is a TOY, not a TOOL. For people liking to PLAY they are musicians, film makers or photographers, not for people that actually do those things professionally (I can assure you that the Photoshop app is useless in every editingway, and you can\'t save what ever changes to the picture you do (by dragging your finger! So much for precision!). And want to throw a bad image into the bin? Not possible, you have to re-configure your entire iPad content via the itunes on your computer....takes about a couple of hours... Sigh. But it was nice to watch a film and play scrabbles on our xmas holiday... Very expensive toy though.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):160963068','',0,0),(2665,7578,'Nilla','hi@westindesign.com','http://utanpunkt.blogspot.com/','','2011-03-05 18:17:00','2011-03-05 18:17:00','And yes, we will scream, sometimes you want to see the thread without the trouble to go back to the actual blog and the actual posting. Sorry, but we are slack.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):160963782','',0,0),(2666,7583,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-05 18:23:00','2011-03-05 18:23:00','DRM is down to Amazon - you can set that option when you upload the file. Nothing to do with Scrivener. Don\'t understand your download problem I\'m afraid - it works fine for me. \nAs to the design... it\'s the design....',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):160967511','',2663,0),(2667,7578,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-05 18:25:00','2011-03-05 18:25:00','OK - that\'s why we\'ve moved to Disqus (after two days of trying to get Intense Debate to work). You should be able to subscribe to comments much more easily now.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):160968157','',2665,0),(2668,7583,'Self publishing- straight to kindle? | Barnsley Writers','','http://barnsleywriters.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/self-publishing-straight-to-kindle/','72.233.96.147','2011-03-05 18:39:22','2011-03-05 18:39:22','[...] http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/ [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library','pingback',0,0),(2669,7583,'Tj_lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-03-05 21:13:00','2011-03-05 21:13:00','That\'s totally slick.  Of course, now I can imagine Scrivener users (and probably everyone else) tossing every last word they\'ve written, unedited, out into the Kindle-verse, hopping to make a buck just by sheer, overwhelming volume.  At &lt;$2 a pop, you could get a significant number impulse, &quot;what the hey?&quot; purchases of almost any blamed thing, eh?\n\nIt looks like this feature will be among the first to be added post release for Scrivener for Windows.  However, folks, don&#039;t hold your breath.  They just got editor customizations in for Beta 1.9 yesterday (page and font colors for the area you actually write in), and that by itself has brought up a slew of new little issues.  Its getting there, folks, but not quickly.  You Mac people can sit there, enjoying your sense of superiority for a while longer ;-p',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161017047','',0,0),(2670,7583,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-05 21:16:00','2011-03-05 21:16:00','Don\'t forget Kindle\'s sample option. Anyone can download a chunk of these things before they part with a penny.... From what I hear most people do that first.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161017728','',2669,0),(2671,7688,'Bob Mayer','bob@bobmayer.org','','','2011-03-06 17:23:00','2011-03-06 17:23:00','At least prices on ISBNs have dropped.  Two years ago is was $500 us for 10 ISBN. Now you can get 100 for the same price.  We\'ve already used 50 at Who Dares Wins publishing though because of this requirement and it is a pain.  We sell very little through the iBookstore, but that might change if Steve Jobs bans the Kindle app from Apple.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161308244','',0,0),(2672,7688,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-06 18:39:00','2011-03-06 18:39:00','Interesting ibook sales are low,  Bob. Any opinion why that is? I just find\r\nKindle nicer to use. If Apple ban it that will be their loss',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161361454','',2671,0),(2673,7688,'Nate the great','','http://twitter.com/thDigitalReader','','2011-03-06 19:47:00','2011-03-06 19:47:00','iBook sales are low because everyone else has a reading app on iOS, and all the other ebookstores have a better selection. This means iBooks is the ebookstore of last resort.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161405567','',2672,0),(2674,7688,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-06 19:49:00','2011-03-06 19:49:00','Guess it\'s not worth buying those ISBNs then!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161406032','',2673,0),(2675,7688,'Lee Goldberg','lee@leegoldberg.com','http://www.leegoldberg.com','','2011-03-06 23:39:00','2011-03-06 23:39:00','I am not saying this to brag, David...but I am making $6000-a-month on ebook sales of my out-of-print backlist. And I am not the only one. Paul Levine, for example, is doing really well, too, with his old LASSITER books. So no, there\'s LOTS of money to be made on your out-0f-print books. You\'re leaving money on the table if you don\'t take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Kindle, the Nook, and the iPad.\n\nLee',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161520693','',0,0),(2676,7688,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-07 04:56:00','2011-03-07 04:56:00','Thanks Lee. I definitely want to do it when I have the time. Do you find\r\nit\'s worthwhile on anything but Kindle?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161627850','',2675,0),(2677,7688,'Lee Goldberg','lee@leegoldberg.com','http://www.leegoldberg.com','','2011-03-07 05:09:00','2011-03-07 05:09:00','I didn\'t buy ISBNs through Bowker...I bought the ones through Smashwords for $9.95. You don\'t need them for Amazon or B&amp;N.\n\nLee',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161630850','',2674,0),(2678,7688,'Lee Goldberg','lee@leegoldberg.com','http://www.leegoldberg.com','','2011-03-07 05:14:00','2011-03-07 05:14:00','Surprisingly, I am doing very well with the POD editions of my out-of-print books on CreateSpace.  I didn\'t expect that at all.  Close to $1000 in royalties last month. B&amp;N has been very slow, only a few hundred dollars a month. Smashwords\' royalty reporting on Apple, Sony, etc is erratic at best, so I have no clue how I am doing on their venues. I\'ll know better once I get my next quarterly statement. (I only use Smashwords for Apple, Sony, Kobo...I put my books on B&amp;N and Amazon myself).\n\nLee',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):161631859','',2676,0),(2683,6794,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-08 14:13:00','2011-03-08 14:13:00','Thanks Adrian - you\'ve no idea how nice it is to get kind comments like that from time to time. Writers are such dependent types. I\'ve no idea who will eventually play the crew if this mammoth project comes together. But I\'m in Rome on Thursday to discuss everything with the production company and will report back here when there is something concrete to say.\n\nWhoever plays them, though, I will be besieged by people telling me \'they don\'t look like that\' of course.... In books every readers creates his or her version of a character - which is how it should be.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):162346754','',2682,0),(2681,7583,'WiseMóna','monazwise@gmail.com','','','2011-03-08 10:41:00','2011-03-08 10:41:00','Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):162290655','',0,0),(2682,6794,'Adrian','atica3ame@westnet.com.au','','','2011-03-08 12:28:00','2011-03-08 12:28:00','I have read all of David\'s books and after my 4th visit to Rome am still wandering around in a \"Costa\" haze hoping to run into Teresa or Peroni, et al, at some ice cream or coffee shop!\nI have got the perfect cast in mind.  These characters have not altered one iota since I first read \"A Season for the Dead\".\n\nLooking forward to whatever may eventuate.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):162317516','',1758,0),(2684,6794,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-08 14:14:00','2011-03-08 14:14:00','Thanks Cari! You are reading so much more quickly than I can write, you know. Another year till the next one...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):162347074','',2394,0),(2685,7705,'Dina Santorelli','dina@dinasantorelli.com','http://makingbabygrand.com','','2011-03-08 15:28:00','2011-03-08 15:28:00','Terrific post. I actually find most of my ideas when I\'m NOT writing. Just daydreaming. Or watching TV. However, I must say that I must push myself to write a specific word count a day when I\'m ready to sit down and do it. But I have no qualms about skipping days and experiencing life, instead of writing about it. :)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):162392902','',0,0),(2686,7705,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-03-08 18:39:00','2011-03-08 18:39:00','I find that when I\'m writing to task, you know, seriously, deliberately, putting in daily hours and all that, I average about 400 good, fairly polished words an hour.\n\nWhen I\'m not intentionally writing, but I get bored and \"accidentally\" slip into writing, 400 words might take 10-15 minutes.  You can see how that might add up if I somehow don\'t come up for air for an hour or two.  I\'ve written in excess 0f 5000 words dozens of time and breached 6000 at least two times I can recall.\n\nWhen that happens though, I find the typeo to correct word ratio to have risen from 1:100 to more like 1:10 (multiplied by how many more words there are, you can see how this might get out of hand).\n\nI also find that somewhere between 1750 and 2500 words, I\'ll have probably exhausted whatever was in my brain at the moment, and at the breakneck pace I\'m drafting, the next words out of my fingers will venture out into something completely unplanned and even unconsidered, usually something just sprouting organically and spontaneously from conversation between characters.  This is often very interesting territory, at least from the POV of me discovering information about my story that I may not have put much thought into yet, but very rarely do these words inform actual scenes that will be present in the finished work.  Even more rarely do these forays into volume result in words that will see the light of day without being altered beyond recognition.\n\nAt least its not as bad as participating in the NaNoWriMo where I find I average about 2000 a day, but I basically work all day, hardly able to eek anything out during my normally allowable writing hours, then writing at the dining table all evening then staying up till midnight hacking away in the basement (where I generally get a third or fourth wind right about 11:54 and feel like I should stay up even longer to take advantage of it).\n\nI much prefer working at my usual pace with my deliberate methods with usual limits on my writing times and days.  I haven\'t done the math, but I\'ll bet I get more readable novels per year out of one-fourth to one-half of the daily word count as compared to the other methods of work I\'m prone to.  I do know that I feel much more sane that way, too.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):162493985','',0,0),(2687,5654,'Phil T Morris','phil.t.morris@gmail.com','','','2011-03-09 21:21:00','2011-03-09 21:21:00','I found the program interesting, knowing little about the subject except half-impressions fom that King Arthur film with Stellan Skarsgard as a Saxon baddie.  Simplifying is annoying sure, but I liked it. (Where should I go for more info?) \nAnd I rather fancied Miss Goth Mascara Black-Tight-Stilletto Witterpants . \nSo there.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):163167681','',1326,0),(2688,5654,'Nekropolitikman','nekropolitikman@yahoo.co.uk','','','2011-03-10 00:55:00','2011-03-10 00:55:00','The programme was ok. It was the most interesting choice of the programming available at that particular time-slot.  I felt afterwards that I had learned a few things about our history, and enjoyed seeing the ornate AngloSaxon jewellery. Ms Ramirez\'  black stockinged legs &amp; high-heeled boots were a bonus, as far as I\'m concerned.. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):163258313','',0,0),(2689,6794,'Jane Smith','hprw@tesco.net','http://howpublishingreallyworks.com','','2011-03-11 11:57:00','2011-03-11 11:57:00','Oh, David! I\'ve only just read this. Many congratulations, to you and Blake Friedmann, for this fabulous deal. Brilliant!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):164035512','',0,0),(2690,7728,'Jane Smith','hprw@tesco.net','http://howpublishingreallyworks.com','','2011-03-11 12:00:00','2011-03-11 12:00:00','Fascinating reading, David. I\'d assumed that most \"piracy\" (which I prefer to call by its real name, theft) was initiated by a bunch of nerdy computer-geeks. This makes it much more worrying, and much nastier, too. \n\nThe good thing? With this information it\'s a lot easier to present book-theft as the nasty thing it is.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):164036162','',0,0),(2691,7728,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-11 12:12:00','2011-03-11 12:12:00','And perhaps people will think twice before handing over their credit card to these smiley \'piracy\' sites too.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):164038121','',2690,0),(2692,7736,'Alan','','http://twitter.com/tontowilliams','','2011-03-11 13:47:00','2011-03-11 13:47:00','Well said David.  I don\'t think people connect or realise how widespread an issue this is, and the damage that it does not only to the existing market and authors, but also the future market and unpublished writers',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):164081544','',0,0),(2693,5654,'LizN','liz@lemonpromotions.com','','','2011-03-11 23:40:00','2011-03-11 23:40:00','Only just seen Treasures of The Anglo Saxons, repeated on BBC 4, and spotted your blog whilst looking for a place to \'arggghhh!\' about it..........this seems to be it!\nCouldn\'t agree more about the heels/Garrards/\'ooh, listen to me I can read Beowulf\'. BUT - the main problem with the programme was the way it misled viewers and made assumptions about pieces. She assumed all the 2009 hoard was \'war booty\' (probable, but who will ever know?), picked out things that backed her flimsy theories and ignored other areas that didn\'t and - from the first sentence showed her ignorance: \'I\'m the first person to look at this as an art historian, not a historian or archaeologist.\' Really? Then what was the degree course I did over 20 years ago? Celtic &amp; Saxon Art.........I think that pretty much covers her topic in this banal hour......\nTo investigate pieces from one era you have to look at influences on those pieces, and she managed to completely ignore (or step over in her spikes) all the incredible and influential art of the centuries before the Saxons, and even developments from the same period such as the wooden churches of Scandinavia. Rubbish. \nFor real learning and a deep understanding of Celtic and Saxon Art, look for work by Lloyd Laing or Ruth &amp; Vincent Megaw.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):164516978','',0,0),(2694,7583,'Dana','dana@reece.id.au','','','2011-03-13 01:32:00','2011-03-13 01:32:00','Is there any advantage of publishing on Amazon via a service like Smashwords?  Or is it better to go via Amazon KDP directly?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):164895541','',0,0),(2695,7583,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-13 04:04:00','2011-03-13 04:04:00','Kdp seems a lot faster and easier to me\r\n\r\nSent from my iPad',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):164927106','',2694,0),(2696,7531,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-13 19:50:00','2011-03-13 19:50:00','I\'m coming late to this debate, but I do think it\'s an important one. I think it\'s worth pointing a finger of blame here at governments in developed countries, most of which have failed miserably to modernise and enforce their copyright laws. And this is the reason why many otherwise law-abiding people seem to have a blind spot when it comes to digital theft.\n\nThe ebook debate is in its infancy, but it\'s instructive to study the music and video industries. Way back when the video cassette recorder was at the cutting edge of technology, people used to swap video tapes all the time. If you missed an episode of your favourite programme, you went into the office the next day and got a tape from someone who had recorded it.\n\nThis was unlawful (I\'m talking about UK law here). But everyone did it. No one was ever prosecuted. Why? Because no court in the land would ever find someone guilty of a crime, and the copyright holders knew it.\n\nFast-forward a few years, and people started making copies of their music CDs for personal use, as MP3s, or CD copies for the car, or whatever. Again entirely illegal. No prosecutions. Same reason. In fact, in the UK at least, the music companies have said that they will not prosecute people for copying their own CDs. Because they know it would be a waste of time.\n\nGoing back to video: if you miss a TV programme these days, instead of borrowing a tape from a friend, you might go to a dodgy web site to download a copy (presuming it\'s not available on legal web sites such as iPlayer). Unlawful? Yes, just like the VHS tape. But the web site offers infinite numbers of copies of many programmes, so the potential economic impact is far greater. Copyright holders have a right to object.\n\nThe real problem here is that, in the UK at least, the copyright law is so out of date. The only protection given to consumers as far as making copies of copyrighted works is concerned is the right to record TV programmes to watch later, for their own use only. That\'s it. And that law is more than 20 years old. And because the government has failed to produce modern laws based on principles of fair use, people are making it up for themselves as they go along. That blurs the debate. Modernise the law, then go after the digital thieves with all guns blazing.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165178135','',0,0),(2697,7531,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-13 19:56:00','2011-03-13 19:56:00','It\'s an interesting idea but the trouble is copyright laws can really only be applied on a geographical basis. So they could be used to pursue individual purchasers of illegal files. But I can\'t see the police bothering to do that - or that they should really. It\'s just like peddling dope -- we should be aiming at the suppliers, not the users. And in the case of IP theft they are all beyond the law, in countries that don\'t much care about digital theft. \r\n\r\nI suspect we\'re beyond the point where the law can deal with this. We need to explain the situation clearly and honestly to the book buying public and hope they\'ll see it\'s in their interests to buy what they consume. The real thieves already have their noses into the trough of stolen books, music, videos, games and software. They\'re not going to change.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165179726','',2696,0),(2698,7531,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-13 23:12:00','2011-03-13 23:12:00','The trouble is, books need help far more urgently than films and music. Despite all that has been said about impending disaster, both the film and music industries have relatively easy routes to long-term survival. \n\nMusic will go back to its roots -- live performance. In fact it already has. It\'s no bad thing. And a night out at the movies will remain a favourite activity for 16-24 year olds for as long as we can foresee. The cinema box office is healthier than ever.\n\nIt\'s books I worry about. I can\'t see a way forward. We are relying entirely on the hope that sufficient people feel a moral imperative to pay. But I know few people under the age of 40 who pay for their recorded music... (I am well over 40, which is probably why I worry about these things).\n\nMy suggestion: all industries that sell digital entertainment seem to be heading inexorably towards an all-you-can-eat model. Why should books be any different? So we need commercially-driven libraries -- a literary Spotify.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165232586','',2697,0),(2699,7736,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-14 01:06:00','2011-03-14 01:06:00','As I pointed out in another thread, I am worried about digital theft, and would never for one moment defend the thieves. But I do think the book industry is in danger of following the well-worn path of the music and film industries by hanging on to well-worn business models for too long. You may not agree, but I think you said it all when you pointed out that, for your books, \"the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out\". In other words, the perceived value of an ebook is purely a function of the current printed edition. That\'s patently nonsense (to the ebook buyer) and reveals that the industry has not even begun to change.\n\nAlso, I become uneasy when people justify the price of ebooks by using the (perfectly valid) facts about cost (printing/distribution is only 15 percent of the cost of a printed book, ebooks attract VAT etc). As we all know, the price of any product is not a function of the cost of production, it\'s what the market will bear. Likewise, a customer\'s perception of value is not related to production cost but to a wealth of other factors. Authors say, with some validity, that buyers pay for the content, not the form. But anecdotal evidence, and plenty of conversations with printed book buyers, suggests that, to many ebook buyers, the fact that you receive no physical product, cannot easily share ebooks, and the fact that the ebook is subject to digital rights management (DRM), reduce the ebook\'s perceived value. Ultimately the price of ebooks will have to reflect this.\n\nWhich brings me to my final point. I have a Kindle, and love it. But I don\'t buy ebooks. I just use the Kindle to carry personal documents. I just won\'t buy digital products subject to DRM. DRM punishes the lawful and makes no difference to the thief. Likewise I own more than 1,000 CDs and almost as many DVDs but will not buy e-music or download films that are subject to DRM. I know countless people feel the same way. It\'s another bullet the publishers will have to bite before the mass audience will buy the e-product.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165258464','',0,0),(2740,7805,'Gerald Hornsby','geraldswriting@gmail.com','','','2011-03-17 09:27:00','2011-03-17 09:27:00','But ... but ... but ...\n\nThat\'s the perspective of the publisher, coming from the traditional publishing background. What about the perspective of the buyer, and the perception that something *should* cost less?  Many traditionally-published authors are self-publishing now (aren\'t they, David? ;) ), and finding that the costs are not so huge. And in addition, they can make the selling price more attractive, and keep more of the revenue themselves.\n\nMichael is trying hard to justify a publisher\'s high prices. Oh, the cost of uploading to several places - it must be huge. I suspect that the majority of the work is subcontracted out, much as some self-pubbed authors are doing.\n\nOne image that sticks in my mind was a video of a meeting at a publisher, to discuss different cover artworks. There were something like a dozen people in this huge meeting room, with a posh conference desk, etc etc etc etc. That is where the high costs come in - overheads. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167063728','',0,0),(2703,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-14 08:18:00','2011-03-14 08:18:00','I doubt most Kindle users even know there\'s DRM there. It\'s not like iTunes DRM where you lost your music if you lost your iPod or computer. With Kindle you can read the same book on the Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Android, PC or Mac, and recover the book from Amazon if you lose all of them. There is some sharing scheme in place in the US I believe but it\'s already being abused by sites trying to allow people to share with complete strangers to avoid buying books. The lengths people will go to...Judging by current ebook sales I don\'t think many people share your perception of value either. They\'re hardly high ticket items. And a book is a book, an ebook an ebook. If you want something to pass around to friends, give away, sell on eBay... buy a book. If you want something quickly delivered and convenient get the ebook instead. Expecting one to perform all the functions of the other is a bit like expecting a CD to play in a tape drive. As to the brief period a book attracts a hardback price before being cut to the paperback one... that\'s been custom and practice for decades. Some people like hardback books, libraries mostly insist on them. Readers pay a premium, not much of a one these days, for getting the book the moment it appears and in a more durable format that collectors like. If they don\'t want to pay that, then just wait six months or so. As I said here, ebooks are generally slightly cheaper in price than their print equivalent. Seems very fair to me.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165463700','',2699,0),(2832,8010,'','stainles@mac.com','','','2011-04-13 17:41:00','2011-04-13 17:41:00','\"Arthur C. Clarke invented GPS.\"\n\nI\'m not an expert on the field of SF history, but my recollection is that Clarke proposed the idea of orbiting geostationary communications satellites, which to me is slightly different from inventing GPS.\n\nAlso, to the best of my recollection, Clarke did not patent the idea, and never made a dime of revenue off of it; Doctorow, as I read that Twitter comment, is citing this as a revenue stream for Clarke.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183865895','',0,0),(2705,7736,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-14 12:38:00','2011-03-14 12:38:00','&gt; I doubt most Kindle users even know there\'s DRM there. \n\nYou under-estimate your audience.\n\n&gt; As to the brief period a book attracts a hardback price\n&gt; before being cut to the paperback one...\n&gt; that\'s been custom and practice for decades.\n\nI was not criticising the printed book price model. That\'s perfectly reasonable. I was criticising the ebook pricing model. Linking it to the price of the current print edition is \'old model\' thinking, and exactly the error the music industry made before it started to build business models for the digital economy, and companies such as Spotify appeared.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165508983','',2703,0),(2706,7736,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-14 12:38:00','2011-03-14 12:38:00','&gt; I doubt most Kindle users even know there\'s DRM there. \n\nYou under-estimate your audience.\n\n&gt; As to the brief period a book attracts a hardback price\n&gt; before being cut to the paperback one...\n&gt; that\'s been custom and practice for decades.\n\nI was not criticising the printed book price model. That\'s perfectly reasonable. I was criticising the ebook pricing model. Linking it to the price of the current print edition is \'old model\' thinking, and exactly the error the music industry made before it started to build business models for the digital economy, and companies such as Spotify appeared.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165508983','',2703,0),(2707,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-14 14:58:00','2011-03-14 14:58:00','&gt;You under-estimate your audience.\nNo I don\'t. Have talked to lots of people who bought, got Kindles at Xmas. The issue never came up and why would it? They can read their books when they like on what they like, and still keep them even if they lose the device. One of the joys of the Kindle is you never need to mess around transferring files from computer to device as you do with some other systems. Most people wouldn\'t want to do that. \n\nAs to business models.... I\'m afraid I never cease to be amazed how many people outside publishing think they know how it ought to be run as a business. I don\'t know what your business is John but I don\'t think I\'d be well placed to tell you how to run it. \n\nThe book world isn\'t as simple and straightforward as it may appear. There are issues such as territorial rights to be taken into consideration for one thing and the sustenance of the important existing print business, which no \'make ebooks dead cheap everywhere\' fan seems to think about, though it\'s a substantial business and will remain so for years. You seem to want to pay the less than paperback price for a hardback book instead of the less than hardback price. I can\'t see why any publisher would wish to cannibalise their own sales this way for the brief period in which hardback prices are in force. Nor does it \'punish\' the reader. They\'re still getting the book for less than the print price if they want it early. \n\nWhat you\'re really arguing against is the hardback-paperback process. Maybe we will all move to one paperback edition one day, and some books, like my recent reissues come out as trade paperbacks from the start. I don\'t think it would make much difference to sales overall. People who don\'t want to pay hardback prices wait for the paperback and will do the same in ebook. \n\nIf books were $40 a time maybe they would be a \'ripoff\' argument. But they\'re not and I suspect they\'ll get cheaper still.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165550768','',2705,0),(2708,7583,'Iberianlynx06','iberianlynx06@yahoo.com','','','2011-03-14 15:52:00','2011-03-14 15:52:00','Hello\n\nThis might be a silly question, but are the screenshots with \"compile\" part of the scrivener software? Did make the compilation with scrivener?\n\nBest Regards\n\nA. Ferreira',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165569993','',0,0),(2709,7583,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-14 16:02:00','2011-03-14 16:02:00','Very much part of Scrivener. But that is Scrivener 2 on the Mac. Not sure how much is in the Windows version.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165573697','',2708,0),(2710,7736,'Rupert','rupheath@hotmail.com','','','2011-03-14 16:34:00','2011-03-14 16:34:00','I\'ve been fascinated by your posts about digital theft, David. There\'s no doubt you\'ve identified a serious problem.\n\nI remember seeing this as a doomsday scenario when I first started as an agent in 2001. Once published books started getting the mp3 treatment, we\'d be in big trouble. Why? Two main reasons, I reckon.\n\n1. Attitude. I think people genuinely do view file-sharing (theft, yes, but FS is more than a euphemism when you examine the process by which much music, and now literature, is disseminated digitally) as no worse than home-taping. One can of course be sniffy about home taping to make a moral point, but the fact is that back in the day home taping was condoned like billy-o. Everyone did it, no one objected. (Except the record companies, but no one cared about them. Especially as they were making record profits during home-taping\'s heyday, the late 70\'s to the early 90\'s.)\n\n2. Technology. One of the reason home-taping was pretty much ok for everyone was because its capacity to diminish sales of original material was limited. Networks of tapers could only go just so far, if for no other reason then because the quality suffered with each re-record. Not so with digital, where every copy tends to be perfect. Add to that the means to disseminate one legitimate copy of a song or a book among literally billions of people at the click of a button. \n\nThere\'s no question in my mind that, if ebooks become the lingua franca of the reading public, the current publishing model *is* broken. I agree with you that \'pirates\' would sooner get their goodies for free than pay even a nominal sum like 99p. But I disagree when you say the majority are \'decent\' people, who wouldn\'t traffick in free copies of books. It\'s just like home-taping. The only difference is that \'home-taping\' this time around has potential t0 do the publishing industry irreparable harm. And I suspect consumers view that (if they consider it at all) squarely as our problem, not theirs. I don\'t really think we can effectively educate them out of that mindset, especially in the midst of the plethora of \'free\' with which the net regales us.\n\nThe question is - if not that, what can we do?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165586181','',0,0),(2711,7736,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-14 16:50:00','2011-03-14 16:50:00','&gt; As to business models.... I\'m afraid I never cease to be amazed\n&gt; how many people outside publishing think they know\n&gt; how it ought to be run as a business. \n\nMy business, until recently, was writing and editing (newspaper journalism, for the best part of 20 years), so I fully understand an industry struggling to build an alternative business model for a digital marketplace.\n\n&gt; You seem to want to pay the less than paperback price \n&gt; for a hardback book instead of the less than hardback price.\n\nI\'ve no idea where you got that impression. I have no view on what the price of books should be. The market will decide. My comments (a bit academic, perhaps) were about relative perceived value. You don\'t need to be quite so combative, or dismissive. I support your broad arguments and aims - I was merely trying to make a civil contribution to an important debate. As I said above, and you ignored, I have no problem with the printed book (hardback/paperback) business model. Indeed I support it, and I think it still has legs.\n\nMy former industry (regional newspapers) has, to all intents and purposes, died because it failed to find a digital model that worked. Local papers still exist, but are fewer in number and a shadow of their former selves. So it goes. Books face no such danger, of course, but the business model must change quickly, or the industry, and authors, will suffer greatly in the short-to-medium term. Just my opinion.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165592763','',2707,0),(2713,2614,'Tilmon Hocutt','tilmonhocutt@gmail.com','','','2011-03-14 17:02:00','2011-03-14 17:02:00','There is some potential for you being right.\n\nThere is also a lot of potential for you being dead wrong.\n\nBaen Books has already tested this theory. They have authors that give away 1 or more e-books WITHOUT drm. End result. their paper sales INCREASE. In many cases the sales of ALL their paper books increase, not just the one they gave away as an e-book. \n\nThere is a reason people have given away free samples for 1000\'s of years, it increases future sales. The main difference in this case is the free samples you are screaming about are NOT paid for by you or your publisher. Be happy if you are getting free advertising. Its like that advertising all smart authors pray for, word-of-mouth advertising. Its free and its the most effective.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165597814','',0,0),(2714,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-14 17:16:00','2011-03-14 17:16:00','I was in newspapers for two decades too and I can tell you - newspapers are nothing like book publishing at all on so many fronts. Newspapers are looking to make a profit out of every edition for one thing while book publishers are taking long-term gambles on authors, most of whom will never pay back. And then there\'s advertising.\r\n\r\nI got the impression you were making this recurrent point about price because you said....',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165603028','',2711,0),(2715,2614,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-14 17:19:00','2011-03-14 17:19:00','Er.... you can get a considerable free SAMPLE of any ebook on Kindle or iBooks. And I have no objection to marketing campaigns that involve free copies. I\'ve had them myself and will doubtless do more.\r\n\r\nBut you need to recognise - there is a difference between a publisher and author deciding to hand out free promotional copies and having them simply taken illegally. First time I\'ve heard of stealing being called advertising by the way, or that I should be grateful for getting ripped off.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165604578','',2713,0),(2716,7736,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-14 17:40:00','2011-03-14 17:40:00','No need to apologise, let\'s leave it at that. But one footnote. I just asked my wife (still Kindle-less, but tempted) how she would feel about a \'Spotify for books\' - ten pounds a month, read what you like. Her eyes lit up. She\'d join today. There are digital alternatives worth considering...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165615236','',2714,0),(2717,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-14 17:47:00','2011-03-14 17:47:00','If books go that route authors are screwed. Take a look at this\r\nhttp://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165617971','',2716,0),(2718,2614,'Inksmithy','inksmithy@gmail.com','','','2011-03-14 18:06:00','2011-03-14 18:06:00','I think there is still a misconception here that one free download equals one lost sale. It doesn\'t. \nThat doesn\'t excuse copyright infringement, but the concept must be clear. The person who downloads your book would not necessarily have bought it in other circumstances. That\'s point one.\nPoint two is, when someone said above that books have no publishing costs, they were clearly wrong. However, they were just as clearly pointing out that in comparison to a hardcover book, the publishing overheads of an book are vastly less than those of a hardcopy book, unless you have some magical deals with printers, typesetting, paper suppliers,bookbinding, transport, warehousing and distribution. Come on, don\'t cheapen yourself with petty hairsplitting and deliberate failures to contextually interpret people who bother to comment.\nThird point, the idea of contacting advertisers is a good one, but don\'t bother contacting the people selling the advertised products. Unsteady, get in touch with the Google awards team as well as people like commission junction and the suppliers of advertising.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165624708','',0,0),(2719,7583,'A. Ferreira','iberianlynx06@yahoo.com','','','2011-03-14 18:46:00','2011-03-14 18:46:00','Thank you very much for your reply. I have written a novel - in portuguese - that I would like to self publish to kindle but the project has stopped because I can\'t creat a toc that can be recognized by the kindle software. I can however create a toc in word. I\'m aware that there is a windows beta version of scrivener and I\'m willing to try it but their site appears to be down. I will try to download the beta version and see if I can solve the problem. If not perhaps I\'ll buy a mac.\n\n                                                       Best Regards\n\n                                               A. Ferreira',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165642100','',2709,0),(2720,7583,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-14 19:00:00','2011-03-14 19:00:00','Best thing to do is ask on the fantastic Scrivener forums',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165647409','',2719,0),(2721,7736,'Martyn','timetravellingtoad@gmail.com','','','2011-03-15 05:49:00','2011-03-15 05:49:00','Firstly let me concur; piracy is theft no matter how you dress it up but unfortunately it is also a monster of your own creation. It isn\'t piracy that does the damage it is greed; both Publisher and Consumer.  \n\nPeople are generally honest but lazy, pitch a product at the right price and they will pay. I would wager they will gladly spend a couple of pounds for an ebook rather than wade through endless, virus filled, sites to download a \'free\' copy. \n\nDon\'t treat consumers like fools; it ruins the legitimacy of your argument.  One download does not equal one sale.  The cost of manufacture and distribution of a physical copy does not equate to 5% more than an electronic copy. \'My current paperback, The Blue Demon, lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98.\' You see nothing wrong with this quote (besides the mistype)?  You think because you put the price a few pence either side of £4 we would not notice? Insulting.\n\nI find it incredibly depressing that I am able to travel to my local super market and pick up a hard back copy of a book cheaper than I can legitimately download a version I don\'t own and is, essentially, disposable.\n\nI\'m not suggesting you should give your books away nor resort to blatant product placement. Quite the opposite, I believe you should be rewarded for your hard work.  But the answer is not to sit on the moral high ground preaching the same old messages. Maybe it is time to look at the retail model you are desperately clinging to.\n\nI stumbled across this debate and leave it with a heavy heart.  It seems to me that no lessons have been learned from the experience of the music and gaming industry and an intelligent author will be sounding the ‘Last Post’ instead of ‘Reveille’.\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165980775','',0,0),(2722,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-15 07:01:00','2011-03-15 07:01:00','Yes the prices were the wrong way round in that quote and have been corrected. As to the rest... Frankly you baffle me. Very few hardbacks sell for less than the ebook. Only special supermarket promotions of a handful of titles.  I don\'t see what\'s \'insulting\' about pointing out that ebooks are already cheaper than physical ones and that book prices generally are a fraction of what they were. Authors don\'t set book prices by the way. Retailers do mostly these days. \r\n\r\nNor do I think there\'s any evidence this very cheap pricing system is broken. If it were how come Amazon are selling more ebooks than printed ones? People are paying in their millions which according to your logic (and I agree) must mean the price is right. People steal books because it\'s easy not because of price. Those 99p ebook specials are on the torrents too. \r\n\r\nSent from my iPad',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):165996831','',2721,0),(2847,8090,'Robert Heaney','rheaney@gmail.com','','','2011-04-14 15:27:00','2011-04-14 15:27:00','Hi David,\n\nI definitely agree on the dog, and would like to share my idea on why the mower works so well. It\'s a right-brained activity. You\'re \"painting\" away those large swaths of foot high grass, which is very visual, allowing your left-brain to wander about it\'s linear thought processes. It\'s also a great way to allow the tired left-brain to shut down and have a nap. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184406380','',0,0),(2723,7736,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-15 14:27:00','2011-03-15 14:27:00','@Martyn:\n\nThe fact is that printing and distribution is a small proportion of printed book costs. About 10-15 per cent on average. And ebooks attract VAT (UK sales tax, at 20 percent). Printed books are VAT-free. So there\'s no reason, if you base your argument on production costs and tax, why ebooks should be cheaper in the UK than printed books.\n\nSources:\n(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17rich.html -- says that combined printing and distribution costs of print books account for 12.5 per cent of the average hardcover retail price.\n(2) Sunday Times (London), 6/2/11: They quote a member of research firm Enders Analysis: \'The cost to manufacture a paperback is less than £1 including transportation. The real costs are the advances to authors, the editors, and the marketing budgets.\'\n(3) http://theharperstudio.com/2009/02/why-e-books-cost-money-to-publish/',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166109716','',2721,0),(2724,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-15 14:35:00','2011-03-15 14:35:00','Exactly right. I came across some interesting information about ebook publishing costs. Will be live in a minute or two. The standard industry estimate for print and distribution cost is 12% of retail price. So by absorbing the 20% VAT and making the retail price cheaper ebooks are for publishers lower margin than print at present prices.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166112573','',2723,0),(2725,7736,'Martyn','timetravellingtoad@gmail.com','','','2011-03-15 15:47:00','2011-03-15 15:47:00','Thank you for your answers.  My post, believe it or not, was somewhat edited thus some points not clear or completely missing.\n\nFirstly let me say that it was not a personal attack on you, the author.  To some extent I feel your position is unenviable; caught in the crossfire between Consumer and Publisher and it is these ends of the balance my ‘greed’ comment was levelled at.  Neither do I think you are blameless; it has become necessary for you to pick a side and shape the industry’s future which you have clearly done.\n\nI worked in the music industry for 20 years (before the ‘change’) and have seen all your arguments before.  The ‘Myth’ of print and distribution is quite correct in the context you use it.  However that is a smoke screen.  Even if we take your figures as gospel, 12% is still over double 5% quoted in your example.  This ‘myth’, however, was one perpetrated by your own industry when it attempted to insult people’s intelligence over the pricing of CDs.  The problem is, it is now back to haunt them.\n\nI feel your ‘Amazon selling millions of ebooks, therefore the price is right’, logic is flawed. That backs up ‘people are basically honest and lazy’ and that the pricing is ALMOST right.  Otherwise we would not be having this discussion. \n\nYour opinion of the consumer seems more jaded than mine; I don’t believe people steal ebooks because it is easy.  Firstly the term ‘easy’ is somewhat subjective and, more importantly, I have to believe we don’t live in a world populated by thieves. \n\nRemember we are arguing over a product you purchase but don’t own. An almost intangible item that can not be coveted or treasured. That is, more often than not, lost or deleted after reading and that you will have to pay for again should you desire a re-read a few years hence.  It’s an almost alien concept to me that requires a whole new mindset.  Trying to apply ‘old school’ marketing just isn’t going to work.\n\nFurthermore and finally, dare I suggest you stop harking back to the glory days of retail?  You mention it twice in this reply and many times throughout your posts.  I could counter your argument by saying that books were overpriced a few years ago but that would not be valid either. Your creativity should, undoubtedly, be rewarded; you bring enjoyment to millions and long may that last.  But maybe it’s time to recognise the reward is not as lucrative as it once was and the fault lies with the industry taking more of your share than it should, not that the consumer refuses pay it’s due.\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166150817','',2722,0),(2726,7736,'Rupert','rupheath@hotmail.com','','','2011-03-15 16:05:00','2011-03-15 16:05:00','I would just add the point  that there are significant costs involved in the publishing of paper books, which don\'t exist for ebooks. These are not the costs of manufacture/distribution which everyone focuses on, they are the costs of production. As David will be well aware, Macmillan and all the major publishers run production departments, staffed by individuals who interface between the editors and the printers. A lot of time and resources go into that process, though I\'d hate to hazard how much this would cost the publisher per title. With ebooks, that cost (and an entire, tedious, time-consuming process) can be eliminated. The book can be sent to Amazon (or whoever) directly from the designer\'s desk.\n\nThis may be my nasty suspicious mind, but I do think publishers see ebook as a way to make a cheaper product than paper books, but sell it for only a little less, *and* persuade authors to accept worse terms (by agreeing to royalties based on price received, not list price). They may have a reasonable argument that the basic costs of ebooks are not significantly less than paper books - but the reality is that once established, they *will* cost publishers significantly less to publish, given the various hidden economies they\'ll be able to implement.\n\nAnother financial advantage would be that publishers could, in theory, publish as many books as they like. On the basis that one in five books makes money for a publisher, the greater the number of books published, the greater the number of bestsellers. In fact, this is precisely what Macmillan are planning to do, as an extension of their Macmillan New Writing imprint.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166157657','',2724,0),(2727,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-15 16:20:00','2011-03-15 16:20:00','I\'ve never noticed huge resources going into print liaison frankly. Most of the people design with print are just performing the same function in digital. It really isn\'t as simple as approving an author word file and uploading it. Cover design, proofing... They\'re still there and with digital there are extra jobs too. \r\n\r\nI really suggest you read the Michael Holt piece referenced in the latest post. Extract...\r\n\r\nDigital preparation. Granted, most new books start out as a digital file. If they aren’t already digitized, then they have to be scanned or manually keyed in. But that’s only the beginning. Publishers must then format the books, so that they work on all the various eReaders.\r\nCurrently, there are about six major formats. Some are similar, but each has its own nuances and quirks. In addition, publishers must collect and add all the relevantmetadata, so that customers can actually find the books when they search for them.\r\n\r\nQuality assurance. Once the publisher gets the eBook formatted for a particular eReader, he then as to take it through a quality assurance process (often referred to as “QAing” the book) to make sure that each of the major eReaders renders the pages correctly. This is a time-consuming and laborious process.\r\nThis is fairly easy with books that are straight text. But few are this simple. When you add epigraphs, pull quotes, tables, charts, graphs, illustrations, footnotes, etc., it quickly becomes complicated. In this sense book publishing has become much like software development. At Thomas Nelson, we have seven full-time people managing this process, and we’re currently looking for three more.\r\n\r\nDigital distribution. Once publishers have finished the QA process, then they have to distribute the files to the various eRetailers. You might think Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Apple, and Sony are the only ones out there. They’re not. We are currently distributing our eBooks to more than twenty separate accounts.\r\nEach of these has a different upload protocol and digital asset management system. When something changes in an eBook (e.g., simple corrections or a new edition), publishers must re-distribute the new file and ensure that each eRetailer has the current version. Publishers must also collect payments from these accounts, ensuring that they are getting paid for each download, so they can, in turn, pay their authors.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166163274','',2726,0),(2728,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-15 16:21:00','2011-03-15 16:21:00','The glory days of retail??? Sorry lost me there',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166163705','',2725,0),(2729,7736,'Rupert','rupheath@hotmail.com','','','2011-03-15 16:34:00','2011-03-15 16:34:00','It seems to me that most of that extra work takes a long time to describe, but very little to accomplish. A lot of it overlaps with what either designers, or the sales team, are doing already. However, I can see we could argue that point indefinitely - it\'s hard to express it in monetary terms.\n\nBut do you not think running production depts costs serious money? There might be about five or more full-time salaries to cover, an office to maintain (equipment, rent, utilities etc). Then there is the amount of time editors have to spend having meetings with the production dept - in my days as an editor at Macmillan we used to have a production meeting every week, which involved all the editors, and which lasted most of the afternoon. That\'s very labour intensive. From talking to editors today, I don\'t think things have changed there much.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166171440','',2727,0),(2730,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-15 16:36:00','2011-03-15 16:36:00','My suggestion is we explain the situation to people openly and frankly. We\'re in a very odd situation where consumption of books and ebooks is very popular. The problem is getting people to pay for it. They\'re obviously going to pay less but as long as a good proportion do pay there\'s the basis of an industry. The hardened thieves will never change their ways but I do think most people accept they\'ll pay a modest sum for what they consume. \n\nActually a lot of the pirated copies are far from perfect. I downloaded one pirate version of my latest hardback yesterday out of interest. It had been converted into lots of different formats, pdf among them, and was clearly done in a very cack-handed manner (apart from the version which is the original of course).  ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166172138','',2710,0),(2731,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-15 16:58:00','2011-03-15 16:58:00','Absolutely - they do cost money. But the point is - you still need them for digital. If you read the Holt piece you can see he\'s actually taking on extra staff. I thought his comment about how production was turning into software development was very interesting. A lot of books now aren\'t just Kindle files they\'re apps too -- and app development is incredibly expensive. \r\n\r\nThen there\'s the work involved in maintaining very extensive web sites and dealing with the occasionally very thorny issue of metadata. And any way you look at it print will be around for years to come so you couldn\'t get rid of those people. Unless you abandoned print altogether of course, which some small publishers have done in the US. \r\n\r\nBut I can\'t see any major company going that way, can you?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166180061','',2729,0),(2732,7736,'Rupert','rupheath@hotmail.com','','','2011-03-15 22:53:00','2011-03-15 22:53:00','Not yet, certainly. And I would definitely agree that, in the short term, publishers will be taking on more staff and meeting new expenses on top of the old ones as they tackle digital. But I believe that publishers are long-term thinkers, and wish to establish a new business model which will (or could be) ultimately more profitable to them.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166328787','',2731,0),(2733,7736,'Rupert','rupheath@hotmail.com','','','2011-03-16 00:23:00','2011-03-16 00:23:00','I like the idea of what you\'re proposing in a Utopian sense. And I think on a one-to-one basis, few readers would fail to appreciate the logic and moral force of what you\'re saying.\n\nBut because we are not addressing readers on a one-to-one basis, I think we lack a plausible argument. As I said, I think the public\'s attitude is: it\'s our problem (publishers\' and authors\' problem), and it\'s up to us to solve it, either by making something they want but can\'t steal, or find some other way to finance our literary activities (cue dreary and impractical suggestions about going on tour and selling t-shirts). They honestly don\'t care how we solve our problem; they just don\'t have a stake in the outcome. \n\n(I know there\'s an argument that they *do* have a stake, that through selfish and illegal actions they will be starving themselves and the world of future literary output by depriving authors of income; but in a world where only a tiny fraction of books make any commercial impact anyway, I don\'t think the public feel there\'s a danger of a shortage of new books, and if they think about it at all they might consider it not a bad idea if the number of books currently being pumped out was winnowed down quite considerably. Instead, as per my reference elsewhere to Macmillan New Writing, there will probably be more books released by the major publishers than ever before, given how cheap and easy it is to e-publish. I am sticking to my guns on the cheapness of ebook production, but I acknowledge in advance you don\'t agree with that!)\n\nWhen I read the phrase \'people who love books don\'t steal books\' I am forcibly reminded, again, of the home-taping issue and in particular the slogan \'home taping is killing music. And it\'s illegal.\' The slogan, and the message behind it, I think it\'s safe to assert, were ignored at best by the decent and indecent alike, and at worst roundly mocked and parodied. Why should we think we have more of a talking point than the music industry had in the eighties? Is our public an innately more considerate and civilized one than Duran Duran\'s? I wouldn\'t like to depend on it, especially after reading the publisher-directed bile on many a blog and comments page over the past couple of years.\n\nI take your point about inferior digital copies. I think that will change as time goes on, and the technology is refined, especially as ebooks tend towards one dominant format.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166358402','',2730,0),(2734,7805,'Inksmithy','inksmithy@gmail.com','','','2011-03-16 01:22:00','2011-03-16 01:22:00','Personally, I tend to think he is glowing over some aspects and being a little creative with others.\nThe three \"additional\" costs he mentioned are complete whitewashes. I don\'t think there is a publisher out there who would accept a non-digital manuscript, except in very very special circumstances, so digitising the file is ridiculous. \nWhat makes that argument funnier is that a lot of pirated books are hardcopy books which have been scanned and OCRed by someone.\nMentioning the \"quirks\" of each reader, again, this is a blind alley. While it is true each of the readers has different quirks, the file format used is generally a subset of HTML, encapsulated in some sort of archive, usually .zip. it may have a different file extension, but that\'s how they roll.  \nAlso, formatting should br ad simple SD running a script on the digital file the publisher demanded from the author.\nIncidentally, could you ask your publisher to accept a paper manuscript? Reaction would be interesting.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166378050','',0,0),(2735,7805,'Inksmithy','inksmithy@gmail.com','','','2011-03-16 01:24:00','2011-03-16 01:24:00','Pardon the typo -  glowing should be read as glossing. One day I will white a reply on my computer instead of my phone.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166378588','',2734,0),(2736,7805,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-16 02:08:00','2011-03-16 02:08:00','My last book effectively was delivered on paper.  It was a reissue of my first book from 1996 for which no digital file existed. So it had to be scanned and ocred at great expense. Happens all the time. All publishers now have growing digital departments that never existed five or siyearsx ago. They don\'t come for free. \r\n\r\nThose figures don\'t surprise me at all.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166399990','',2735,0),(2737,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-16 02:12:00','2011-03-16 02:12:00','Wouldn\'t expect publishers to do otherwise. They\'re businesses. I\'m sure they can try new things on the back end such as no advance higher royalty. Not sure what they can do on the front except enter a death spiral of lower prices. If they move to ebook only publishing surely a lot of authors wick surely say, \'Hang on. I can do that myself and keep a bigger piece of the cake.\'\r\n\r\nSent from my iPad',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166403705','',2732,0),(2738,7736,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-16 02:17:00','2011-03-16 02:17:00','Don\'t remember the taping slogan. But wasn\'t that about copying something you\'ve already bought? I do think if we make it easy and cheap to buy digitally people will do it if only to save themselves the hassle of surfing the torrents. Not everyone obviously. \r\n\r\nSent from my iPad',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):166407092','',2733,0),(2739,7736,'Are Books Under Threat? | doug woods | doug woods','','http://dougwoods.co.uk/blog/are-books-under-threat/','69.175.20.250','2011-03-16 13:37:52','2011-03-16 13:37:52','[...] Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know&#8230; (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.1','pingback',0,0),(2741,7805,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-17 09:34:00','2011-03-17 09:34:00','You can\'t really compare a self published ebook with a commercial book that appears in print, large print and ebook forms, through negotiated contracts based on per sale royalties. I\'m happy to put up my back list myself and the odd short story because frankly there\'s no great market for them in commercial publishing. But the idea many people can make a living out of self publishing to ebook form is a pipe dream frankly. If I tried that I\'d lose all my print sales (which are bigger than ebooks), library sales, PLR income, and probably sufficient presence in the marketplace to generate audio and TV sales. Nor would the public be well served either.\r\n\r\nIt\'s ridiculous focusing on price frankly. I don\'t know why people keep going on about \'high prices\'. As I\'ve proved repeatedly here books are at a historical low (I know, as does every author, because our income per sale has fallen 30-40% in recent years as those retails prices have come down). A commercial paperback now costs less than a pint of beer in the West End of London if you shop around. Five years ago it would have cost you £6.99, for which you could probably have got three beers. How cheap are books supposed to be? My mainstream new books take a year to write and involve a month of research in Italy. If they sold for 99p I couldn\'t possibly be viable as a writer.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167064894','',2740,0),(2742,7809,'B.C. Young','','http://the-time-capsule.com/','','2011-03-17 16:14:00','2011-03-17 16:14:00','So true. I\'ve found more success posting my actual thoughts on my site, Facebook, and Twitter, than just trying to push my ebooks. Give the reader substance, and they will follow. Although, I\'m not sure about insulting them...LOL.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167189411','',0,0),(2743,7809,'Alan','','http://twitter.com/tontowilliams','','2011-03-17 16:46:00','2011-03-17 16:46:00','Well I guess as I am a \"Would-Be Writer\", I can only comment from a readers perspective, but I do follow a number of writers on twitter, the author of this blog amongst them.  Whilst some of those authors I follow because I have read their books, and want to keep up with what they\'re doing, how their next book is coming along etc. I also follow writers who\'s books I\'ve never read.  I am however more likely to buy one of their books if I think they are a human behind their tweets.  For example it is actually them tweeting and not someone paid to do it on their behalf, and they are tweeting about not just what they are writing about, and that they interact with their followers (David is a very good example of an author who has this spot on, IMO).  I have bought books as a result of this approach, and discovered many wonderful authors as a result - this tends then to lead to following other authors etc etc.\n\nOne final point from the \"would-be\" perspetive, I also follow for hints and tips.  Not because I want to push my \"as yet unpublished masterpiece\", but because one day I do want to get published, and any hints/tips/advice I can find along the way from those who are already having some sucess is great.  There is however a major caveat to this final point, never ever push, apart from being downright rude there is (or at least it seems there is to me), an etiquette to follow, and that means treat people as you would like to be treated yourself.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167203754','',0,0),(2744,7809,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-17 16:52:00','2011-03-17 16:52:00','All those things are fine, Alan. What Sarah is talking about (and you mainly see on FB) is something else entirely and quite gobsmacking. Example: a friend mine mentioned her drains were blocked. Someone comes on and says, \'A character in my new ebook has drains that were blocked - I think you\'d love it!\' There\'s simple oodles of that stuff. It was one reason I deleted my FB account and, when I went back on, only accepted people I actually knew or had some contact with as \'friends\'. Before that I got inundated with this stuff.\r\n\r\nA bit of promotion isn\'t a problem. I\'ll always announce publication dates and major reviews. But it\'s the personal approaches and the repeat tweets (there used to be someone on Twitter who whacked out the same one twice a day, seven days a week, pushing a book). Enough!\r\n\r\nAnd frankly - I don\'t think it works either. The whole social media thing is greatly overplayed. Most of us are really only \'interacting\' with a very small community of people.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167206526','',2743,0),(2745,7809,'Alan','','http://twitter.com/tontowilliams','','2011-03-17 17:02:00','2011-03-17 17:02:00','I see, sorry I\'ve gotten the slightly wrong end of the stick there I think.  I avoid facebook so haven\'t come across that problem, but agree that\'s way too much.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167211561','',2744,0),(2746,7809,'','rca.harris@gmail.com','','','2011-03-17 18:31:00','2011-03-17 18:31:00','Thank you, David &amp; thank you, Sarah.  I am making my backlist e-available sans Twitter, FB or even a blog.  \nI have an idea for a blog but I wonder how much I -- or anyone -- really has to say that\'s all that fascinating.  I\'m so glad there are others who feel as I do.  I have the feeling that all this \"networking\" might be a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167249711','',0,0),(2747,7805,'Tomfitz636','tomfitz636@gmail.com','','','2011-03-18 05:08:00','2011-03-18 05:08:00','If scanning and ocring is a \"great expense\" just ask a college student.  I know that everyone wants to make their share.  Obviously, the author deserves it, but with new distribution channels, publishers and traditional booksellers will see a decline, not an increase in margins.  Just as the TV switched from a few  major networks to hundreds of channels and then the internet, cell phones etc, the publishing business will also change.  There will be consolidations and bankruptcy, but I don\'t think consumers will buy the \"this is a break even situation for us\" line.  It just doesn\'t make sense.  We know that paper, ink, shipping and warehousing cost real money and employee real people.  If publishers can\'t adapt to the new environment they probably should just go away.   Yes you may have to hire new people to distribute an ebook or to edit different versions, but we need to start looking at offering extras to add value to the ebook.  Why not offer your notes and links from your publishing software?  Why not offer book club notes and ideas?  My wife has her book clubs and she does decorations and food to go with it.  Why not recipe links and decorating ideas?  Why not offer bundles with the audiobook?  I\'m just saying, if you don\'t want people to complain about the pricing, increase the value.  We have a fairly new technology here, let\'s make the most of it.  BTW, Mr. Hyatt keeps talking about the average price of $8.81, but let\'s face it, you get a new ebook reader and you don\'t mind buying a few of the classics for 99 cents.  I\'m sure that brings down the average a little.  I\'m also not sure about benefits to the author unless you can take advantage of the marketing available with ebooks.  For example, if you liked this you may also like this.  I\'m sure that Netflix has gotten me to view many movies that few people would have picked up off the shelf at Blockbuster.  I could go on forever, but one more thing, the editing of different versions  and ocring  etc could be done from remote locations (scan it in New York, OCR in Nebraska) like a college campus.  I\'m sure college students work for less.  The technology is changing.  Change the process to adapt.     ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167488062','',2736,0),(2748,7805,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-18 06:54:00','2011-03-18 06:54:00','Business aren\'t college students. Scanning an entire 500 page books and proof reading it then setting it for print is no small cost. Out of print books aren\'t current, commercially produced ones that pay royalties. Most readers don\'t complain about price which as I\'ve pointed out repeatedly here, is at at an alltime low in the UK and US. Books have never been better value.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167509657','',2747,0),(2749,7805,'Tomfitz636','tomfitz636@gmail.com','','','2011-03-18 14:37:00','2011-03-18 14:37:00','I have done similar jobs.  Including scanning ocring and proofreading of large technical manuals.  I know it isn\'t simple, but it\'s not brain surgery.  It could also be done independently by several individuals at the same time to make sure they found the same mistakes.  Books are a good value, but my relative pay has been decreasing for years.  Although the value of the written word is priceless, the value of books is relative.  I have read many of your books and listened to them on my mp3 player.  I have checked them out from the library or downloaded them from netlibrary.  Starbucks does use college students to make a cup of coffee.  I won\'t pay $4 for a cup of coffee, but I know some people will.  Starbuck\'s does add value.  The convenience, the environment, the whole experience is not something you get when you order a coffee from McDonald\'s.  Books need to start adding value.  Just doing the same thing on an electronic device doesn\'t change the experience very much.  In fact I think the whole point of eink was to make the electronic version as close to paper as possible.  To get the same item on a device that is much easier for the publisher to distribute, makes it seem like it should cost less unless some value is added.  So far value is being removed.  You can\'t touch, smell, feel ebooks.  You can\'t give them to your child when they go off to college.  You can\'t get a signed first edition as a gift for a friend.  You can\'t see that spot where you spilled McDonald\'s coffee on page 143 when you were laughing  (not a library book).  These are just my opinions.  I know many people will disagree with me, but sometimes I just want a cheap cup of coffee.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167630505','',2748,0),(2750,7805,'','me@neildixon.com','','','2011-03-18 14:42:00','2011-03-18 14:42:00','If the college student would, after scanning and OCRing a book, go through the resulting file in meticulous detail and correct all the textual errors (as would be done by a professional production house, and quite rightly), I\'m sure the cost of his effort would rise considerably. Have you read a poorly OCR\'d book? Most I have seen are close to unreadable.\n\nThe misconception I hear too often is that online marketing, because it only takes a computer and broadband connection, is straightforward, automatic, and continues to wallow in the \"if you build it they will come\" school of thought. That philosophy stopped working around 1997.\n\nOnline marketing and promotion is a vast expenditure in time and therefore money. It is not cheap, it is not free, and most importantly, it keeps the author away from what they should be doing: writing more great books. The cost of a book, physical or otherwise, is not the book/file itself, it is a reflection of what took place before, during and long after its creation. Surely that\'s where the value can be found, not in the paper on which it was printed.\n\nThe conventional publishing distribution chain may involve a whole string of people and resources, but due to centralisation and volume, these are a small fraction of the total cost of creating and distributing a book. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167635947','',2747,0),(2751,7805,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-18 14:46:00','2011-03-18 14:46:00','Very well put Neil!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167637575','',2750,0),(2752,7805,'','me@neildixon.com','','','2011-03-18 15:47:00','2011-03-18 15:47:00','At home, my current (and growing), physical book collection consumes the equivalent of four Ikea Billy bookcases, total cost for storage: ~£200 (excluding fuel for the 5 hour round trip to the nearest Ikea).\n\nA £111 Kindle can store up to 3,500 books. To store that many on shelves I\'d need just over 21 book cases, totalling just over £1,000 (excluding the cost of a larger home to accommodate them).\n\nHow about another...\nI can go on vacation with my entire book library electronically. I do not have to concern myself with selecting (and potentially regretting) the one or two physical books I decide to take away for a week. \n\nI see these as genuine, distinct, added-value benefits of ebooks over printed books.\n\nThere\'s no doubt that ebooks do not offer the same set of values that physical books do - memories, experiences, tactile qualities, etc. - but, just like every other aspect of the digital world, they offer a whole new selection of values, many not previously conceived by even the creators until they are out in the wild, evolving in their own spaces. \n\nWhat I believe we must strive to do is to stop comparing ebooks with physical books and treat them as an alternative in themselves, not a replacement.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167666875','',2749,0),(2753,7805,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-18 15:53:00','2011-03-18 15:53:00','Exactly - if you want something to pass on and scribble on buy a print book. If you want convenience, get the ebook (which is cheaper). These are separate choices, not competing ones. I like ebooks for fiction. I find them less usable for works of reference with graphics (such as some heavy tomes on Florence which I\'m currently consuming). The fact I can choose the right format for the right sort of book is in itself a form of \'added value\' (though lord I am starting to abhor that largely meaningless phrase).',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167669318','',2752,0),(2756,7688,'AuthorKJB','authorkjb@gmail.com','','','2011-03-19 04:56:00','2011-03-19 04:56:00','...and now Create Space is offering ISBNs on your own imprint for $10 each. That way you can do them one at a time as you publish each book.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):168076316','',2677,0),(2755,5654,'Imhavingabadday','imhavingabadday@hotmail.com','','','2011-03-18 21:50:00','2011-03-18 21:50:00','I\'ve no idea to whom I am addressing this post as I cannot find your name on this page. However, may I just point out what a hypocrit you are! You scold another for referring to Balding as a \"dyke on a bike\", arguing that it is her journalistic skills which are of importance and that appearance and sexuality have no place there. Yet all you seem to be able to focus on with Dr Ramirez was the fact that she wore heels and make up! Granted even I would not have worn heels in a field but what difference does that make to the imformation with which she is providing you? What you seem to be implying is that she does not fit the traditional BBC historian mould because she doesn\'t wear flat shoes and a tweed jacket! You may in fact be interested to learn that, having had Dr Ramirez as a lecturer during my degree a couple of years ago, that how she appears on television is in fact how she dresses on a daily basis and I do not believe that she ought to change her appearance just so some viewers feel that they are getting the full academic understanding. \n\nAnd with reference to her subject knowledge, I am at liberty to inform you that she absolutely does \"know her stuff\" having had lecturers from her on this very subject. Not only is she incredably knowledgable, but she has an amazing ability to encorporate her passion for the subject and give lively, interesting and engaging lectures and she is in fact one of the main reasons that I myself am pursuing a career in post cumpolsary education.\n\nSo before you next time begin to chastise somebody for \"dumbing down\" a subject for the wider audience by \"wearing stilettos\" and going into a London jewellers, remember that she probably has little control over how the programme is produced and edited and that quite frankly, her footwear and appearance should have absolutely no bearing on the fact that she is a superb historian with a wealth of knowledge and that if she were a young man wearing jeans and a shirt with rolled up sleeves, this would not even be an issue. I suspect nobody would ask you to change the way you dress to fit a mould.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):167936249','',0,0),(2757,6291,'Macauley','','http://www.zephanos.com/','','2011-03-20 00:56:00','2011-03-20 00:56:00','Why do you use OneNote instead of, say, Evernote (platform-independent) or DevonThink on the Mac? What does it offer that the other two programs don\'t?\nThan you.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):168391139','',0,0),(2758,6291,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-20 07:19:00','2011-03-20 07:19:00','Evernote is pretty good but rudimentary for me. Devonthink too complicated. OneNote sits between the two.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):168484225','',2757,0),(2759,7805,'John Killeen','jdk5093@gmail.com','','','2011-03-21 15:26:00','2011-03-21 15:26:00','There have been so many posts in various threads here in recent weeks complaining about ebook prices that it made me curious. I don\'t (yet) buy ebooks, but I have assumed that if I were to buy ebooks, they would at least be the same price, or perhaps slightly cheaper, than printed versions.\n\nSo in a completely unscientific study I looked at the first ten books on my Amazon wishlist. Six are unavailable as ebooks. The other four are all more expensive as ebooks. For the record:\n\nThe End of the Party, Andrew Rawnsley (£7.40 printed/£8.99 ebook)\nThe Empty Family, Colm Toibin (£9.71/£11.99)\nToo Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin (£7.12/£8.99)\nThe Big Short, Michael Lewis (£6.37/£7.49)\n\nJust a fairly meaningless snapshot, but my snapshot, and it doesn\'t look as if I\'ll be tempted into ebooks any time soon. Those prices suggest publishers actually want to steer me away from ebooks.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169028377','',0,0),(2760,7805,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-21 16:58:00','2011-03-21 16:58:00','Every one of those books is from the same publisher... Penguin. I think if you look at different publishers you will see a different trend.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169066279','',2759,0),(2761,7847,'Neil Dixon','me@neildixon.com','http://neildixon.com','','2011-03-21 17:20:00','2011-03-21 17:20:00','The advantage UK self-pubs have is with only a little basic Americanizing, they can to tap into much of that huge US market. Some online outlets are pose a challenge as they need a US bank account to receive payments, but that\'s not entirely impossible to solve.\n\nWhere UK self-pubs are more likely to come unstuck, I think, is in publishing to non English speaking countries as the translations costs are going to be prohibitively high in most cases.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169076711','',0,0),(2762,7847,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-21 18:02:00','2011-03-21 18:02:00','I don\'t think you need to Americanise UK English for the US. Most people don\'t mind and some actually like UK English (which is why imports are popular). A much bigger issue is how on earth you make yourself known amidst all that noise.... Everyone seems to be publishing to Kindle right now.\r\n\r\nI can’t imagine paying for translations of my own work and putting them into \'print\'. Leaving the costs aside, how would you know if it was a decent translation?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169105641','',2761,0),(2763,7847,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-21 18:28:00','2011-03-21 18:28:00','Yes - will be interesting to know what he thinks in a couple of years. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169117085','',0,0),(2764,7847,'Neil Dixon','me@neildixon.com','http://neildixon.com','','2011-03-21 19:07:00','2011-03-21 19:07:00','Agreed. Americans are tolerant, word usage is the main pitfall . I work with Americans (and am married to one), and we\'ve had, and continue to have, a number of entertaining exchanges on that front.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169134196','',2762,0),(2765,7847,'Alan','','http://twitter.com/tontowilliams','','2011-03-21 20:01:00','2011-03-21 20:01:00','Interesting to read your thoughts as always David.\n\nFor me self-publishing is part of a longer game plan.  I would, one day, like to make a modest living from writing.  I often joke about that bestseller that\'s going to make my fortune, but I know that\'s probably unlikely.\n\nFor me self-publishing is an opportunity to test the water if you like.  Put my writing and ideas out there simply and cheaply, whilst at the same time doing the day job that pays the mortgage and the other bills.\n\nNow I know that I could do that simply on a blog, and I do post some of my work on my blog, but for \"books\" this really has to be a little bit more conventional.  E-publishing is but one method, but there are opportunities out there for conventional paper based self-publishing as well.  For the latter this also entails having an ISBN if you really want to \"publish\" your work, but one of my current projects will really only work in a \"conventional\" format.  It just won\'t work on a kindle.\n\nI said that this is part of a longer game plan, and in that sense what I hope to gain by self-publishing are a few things.  Firstly a reputation, and an ability to demonstrate a demand for what I have written.  Secondly, a sense of satisfaction.  I think that\'s fairly self-explanatory.  Thirdly, confidence.  Knowing that when I approach an agent it is with something to back up those first few chapters, and that then might open up more doors in terms of translation opportunities, oh and of course that bestseller that makes my fortune ;)\n\nAnyway, just my take.  Slightly naive I suspect, but I write because I enjoy it and at least for the time being something else pays those bills, and I won\'t have to pull a Lee Child anytime soon.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169161030','',0,0),(2766,7847,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-21 20:58:00','2011-03-21 20:58:00','I think that\'s a very sensible way to approach it. The business will be very different in five years anyway. I had a lot of early success, including a movie. But I didn\'t give up the day job until ten years after I started writing. Being cautious and having reasonable expectations is the way to go....',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169196833','',2765,0),(2767,7847,'Mike Jecks','mail@michaeljecks.co.uk','','','2011-03-22 11:13:00','2011-03-22 11:13:00','Very interesting. The attraction for so many writers is the additional money. Take my example, I\'ve had a publisher discount my exports to the US by 85%. That means since I\'m paid royalties on net receipts, I get pennies per book. Although my sales have risen, my income has plummeted. And no, I wasn\'t consulted when they arranged this deal.\n\nThe idea of 25% or more royalties per sale on books priced sensibly is very appealing in comparison. But I know that I would have to write even more than my present two books a year, which is daunting. Or rather, unlikely to be achievable.\n\nHowever, the biggest killer for me is not just the money and marketing - it\'s the fact that I depend on editors and copyeditors. I write fast and moderately well, but I am very bad at editing. If I could afford to work for a half day at a time, I would be happy, but I cannot afford that on my income. I have to work too many hours a week as it is. \n\nIf I was to self-publish, the editing time would necessarily increase, I\'d have to market and publicise even more than I already do, and I don\'t see that I\'d be able to command the sales and visibility necessary. \n\nSo I\'ll carry on trying to scrape a living as a mid-lister with the hope that one day someone will make a film of one of my books and I\'ll be able to invest in a pension. I can dream.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169500556','',0,0),(2768,7847,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-22 11:17:00','2011-03-22 11:17:00','Sounds very realistic to me Mike. Lots of us in a similar position. Like you my royalty per book has been steadily falling along with book prices generally for the past ten years or so. A bigger per sale royalty through self publishing sounds attractive. But not if books are supposed to be priced at 99p a pop. And there are those extra costs. I don\'t think anyone can edit themselves so you will have to find someone to do it for you - and good ones won\'t be cheap.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169501815','',2767,0),(2769,7847,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','','2011-03-22 15:49:00','2011-03-22 15:49:00','Excellent post, David! Also: \"it behoves someone to pour a touch of cold water on things. Oh go on then. Let it be me.\" - classic Hewson!\n\nBarry and Joe Konrath are in atypical positions as proselytizers for their position, Konrath because he\'s been banging the drum so long and so loudly on this that he\'s become the figurehead of the movement, Barry because he\'s an established bestseller who can enter the epublishing market with a solid fanbase and easy access to publicity. While Stephen King really should plunge whole-heartedly into self-publishing, I think midlist or unpublished authors would be wise to be more circumspect.\n\nBut really, I don\'t know - I have no clue what the future will look five years  from now. The biggest issue, I think, will be competition: as self-publishers flood the market, supply will soar, flooding demand. Prices will (have already) take a hit, as established writers compete with beginners offering their work for free. But hardest of all will be establishing your own brand in a sea of hundreds of thousands of other writers. I genuinely believe that marketing/branding will be the biggest challenge here, and it\'ll be increasingly different not only because of the competition, but because of the dilution of traditional publicity options - fewer newsprint pages with book reviews, a huge proliferation of book bloggers etc.\n\nStill, while self-publishing/epublishing represent a problematic future, the approaches of the various legacy publishers to epublishing seems just as problematic. They really seem to be tightening the screws on authors in terms of rights and royalties. And as revenues from traditional publishing has withered, their promotional services for authors, always pretty weak, have become almost risible.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169630441','',0,0),(2770,7847,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-22 15:55:00','2011-03-22 15:55:00','I think you may be right Jonathan. What will set us apart won\'t be our books but our ability to schmooze and beg and bleat our way across the bloody social media landscape trying to scrape up some interest in our work. Not only am I no good at that stuff I have absolutely no interest in it. If that\'s a prerequisite of being a published author I may well go and write something else.\n\nThe most worrying thing of all is the perception this is being put in the public\'s mind that the going rate for a novel (new or otherwise) is 99p or 99 cents. At that level no one can make any money out of this business unless they slavishly pile out pulp every month or so.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169633729','',2769,0),(2771,7847,'Selene Coulter','','http://twitter.com/SeleneCoulter','','2011-03-22 16:31:00','2011-03-22 16:31:00','David, \n\nGood post, and I don\'t think it does any harm (I suspect the opposite) to pour some cold water on proceedings.\n\nI am in the same boat as Alan, so won\'t rehash his comments.\n\nMy biggest concern (as someone who has take the self-publishing plunge) is that I believe a lot of writers don\'t fully grasp the danger of the free market and the race to the bottom. I really don\'t think they understand just how many future careers they are probably extinguishing (including their own). Some know, and simply don\'t care. But those can\'t be educated.\n\nI don\'t worry about the day all books become 99c. I worry about the day that the worth of those books will amount to exactly that.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169654776','',0,0),(2772,7847,'S. V. Rowle','','http://twitter.com/SVRowle','','2011-03-23 01:56:00','2011-03-23 01:56:00','Uh... as far as I know, at least four writers that I can name off the top of my head have GAINED agents as a result of self-publishing: Kait Nolan, H. P. Mallory, Karen McQuestion, and of course Amanda Hocking, though there are a few who were on Konrath\'s blog who actually went traditional after self-pubbing who also got agents.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169907404','',0,0),(2773,7847,'S. V. Rowle','','http://twitter.com/SVRowle','','2011-03-23 02:01:00','2011-03-23 02:01:00','I think your point about international markets being different than the U.S. market is solid. I haven\'t tried to list any fiction books on the UK Amazon site, so I don\'t know what the market\'s like there. I did hear that Steven Leather was doing pretty well at self-publishing, though he is traditionally published, so he\'s an outlier/exception/etc.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):169908985','',0,0),(2774,7847,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-23 09:47:00','2011-03-23 09:47:00','Four? Am I meant to be impressed? And haven\'t you noticed... those four will be seeking traditional publishing deals. Not staying self-pubbed in ebooks. If you see self-pubbing as a route into conventional publishing fine. But the buzz right now is \'conventional publishing is dead\'. So which is it?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):170022633','',2772,0),(2775,7847,'The self-publishing frenzy : a view from this side of the pond | Occasionally Useful','','http://pixorme.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/4041761201/','76.74.248.207','2011-03-23 10:01:06','2011-03-23 10:01:06','[...] Link: The self-publishing frenzy : a view from this side of the pond [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library','pingback',0,0),(2776,7847,'Book Printing','books@ppsprint.co.uk','http://www.shortrunbooks.org.uk','','2011-03-23 11:12:00','2011-03-23 11:12:00','David, I agree with your conclusion. This is a burgeoning market, and a fast moving one at that. What\'s particularly encouraging about the self publishing trend in the US, is the amount of help and advice that is already available for free online. While it\'s not a 1:1 substitute for professional assistance, there\'s enough to take the sting out of the self publishing for beginners. \n\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):170038660','',0,0),(2778,7847,'Boot up: Google Books ripped up, AOL culls content farm, tablet computers take &#8230; | Worldkipedia','','http://gurubootcamp.com/boot-up-google-books-ripped-up-aol-culls-content-farm-tablet-computers-take','69.56.174.18','2011-03-23 11:45:31','2011-03-23 11:45:31','[...] The self-publishing frenzy : a perspective from this side of a pool David Hewson [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.1','pingback',0,0),(2782,7917,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-24 09:02:00','2011-03-24 09:02:00','That sounds very sensible. I never procrastinate and as I said usually I only have the one thing to worry about.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):170783942','',2781,0),(2783,7917,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-03-24 18:59:00','2011-03-24 18:59:00','Multitasking is something akin to an urban legend.  Reality is all about serious, focused single-tasking, and you seem to be the man for that job already, so let me be brief (I\'ll really try this time; the first draft of this post had ballooned to nearly 800 words and I wasn\'t done yet, sorry ;-p ).\n\nFirst off, you do need a list (though if you\'d like, I could give you more tips on using 2 or, anecdotally, 3).  The list will physically or digitally maintain the things you need to do so your brain doesn\'t have to.  It\'s something like a safety net to your trapeze act of project juggling, so let it do its job while you do yours.\n\nIt can also be used as a picking tool.   Close your eyes and drop a fingertip/pen nib/stylus point onto the list and voila, choice made.   Alternatively, just take the next one down the list from the last one you worked on.\n\nIts also a tool for excommunicating a task/project from your current sensoria.  If something sits on your list for awhile without you\'re touching it, you\'ll see what I mean.  You\'re not working on it because you\'re not interested and no one is calling for it.  Likely it doesn\'t need to be done, or at the very least, not any time in the next couple weeks, so take a moment to officially banish it from your list (this is were the 2nd/3rd lists come into play; ask, if you dare).\n\nSecond (and Last, scout\'s honor) off, you may want to look at \"serial single-tasking\".  You\'re excited to work on more than one project, or they have deadlines really close together, you could split your time up during a day in some fashion.  Figure out what works best for you so you can manage your personal resources for greatest productivity and least strain.\n\nThe simplest method, is to simply notice when your focus on your current task starts to fade.  Once you do, don\'t push.  Just wrap up what you\'re doing (if you feel the need) and then get up, literally.  Get your body out of chair shape, get your blood pumping a bit, pick your next task, take a moment get yourself set up to work on it, then go to town.  Lather, rinse, repeat until its time to call it a day.\n\nAlot of folk lately have been talking using timers to signal work/break intervals. I haven\'t tried it myself (probably just because I don\'t have a good timer handy), but seems a likely alternative.  Mostly folk are just talking about keeping themselves sharp for putting in whole days\' work in on the same project, but it should work just as well for signaling hops between projects.\n\nSorry for writing a blog post in response to yours, but at least I managed to cut this down (and trust me, the stuff I cut wasn\'t anywhere clever enough to be worth reading, so no worries).\n\nGood luck,\nKensai\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):171184461','',0,0),(2781,7917,'Alan','','http://twitter.com/tontowilliams','','2011-03-24 08:55:00','2011-03-24 08:55:00','I use the order of:\n1.  important &amp; urgent things\n2.  urgent things\n3.  important things\n4. other stuff\nOverruled if there are strategic things that can have an influence on any/all of 1 - 4, and then of course there\'s always the stuff that is none of the above, but is just fun to do!\n\nI am far better at procrastinating than prioritising ;)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):170782742','',0,0),(2784,7917,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.41.235.175','2011-03-24 19:36:44','2011-03-24 19:36:44','Fascinating advice. Thanks! I do keep lists though. Very keen on them.',0,'1','wp-android/1.3.9','',2783,1),(2786,7917,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-24 21:14:00','2011-03-24 21:14:00','Had to look that one up... having done so I suspect it\'s what I actually do!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):171265264','',0,0),(2801,7958,'KB','kb-tech-support@literatureandlatte.com','','','2011-04-06 08:07:00','2011-04-06 08:07:00','Just hit the Escape key - that will take you back to your text.\n\nThanks for covering Scriv on your blog again David!\n\nBest,\nKeith\n(Scrivener developer)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):178960222','',2800,0),(2800,7958,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-06 06:53:00','2011-04-06 06:53:00','Me neither - but if you ask on the Scrivener forums someone might know.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):178945730','',2799,0),(2798,7958,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','','','2011-04-05 11:02:00','2011-04-05 11:02:00','Thanks for this, David - and for the lavishly illustrated introduction to Scrivener comments post you link to. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):178440231','',0,0),(2799,7958,'Charles','charles.arthur@gmail.com','','','2011-04-06 06:06:00','2011-04-06 06:06:00','I love comments - I use them for items that need later fact checking while I\'m in full flow.\nOnly thing I wish there was is a keyboard shortcut to go out of comments and back to the main text. Haven\'t found it. If you know of one...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):178935611','',0,0),(2797,7958,'Ivan Pope','','http://www.facebook.com/ivanpope','','2011-04-05 08:13:00','2011-04-05 08:13:00','Oh, hooray. I even asked Scrivener if they could put notes in because it just seems so so so obvious. Hadn\'t noticed they were in though.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):178409996','',0,0),(2920,8226,'','kezontour@mac.com','','','2011-04-27 18:12:00','2011-04-27 18:12:00','Meh. I always used to wibble about the cost of newly released e-books being the same price as the hardbacks, but then I figured - hey, I want this book RIGHT NOW. I could use petrol and go to a bookshop and buy it, or I can order it on Amazon and wait for it to arrive. Or I could just see the newly-released-higher-price-ebook as a laziness tax, and pay it just for the instant gratification. I no longer understand all the foot-stamping about the higher prices. Don\'t like the price on immediate release? Then don\'t buy it straight away! I hate that people presume there\'s no cost involved in ebook production. Sure there\'s no physical cost, but the time put in to writing has to be worth something. It takes me seconds to spend a small percentage of a weekly wage to get a product a writer has spent months or years on. Who am I to complain about pricing? ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):192831492','',0,0),(2792,6196,'Marci','bravemeer@gmail.com','','','2011-03-31 00:48:00','2011-03-31 00:48:00','Hi, sorry I know this is an old post, but have you found any ios word processor that allows italics? This drives me nuts as well, I have to use <i> text </i>, and then go in with a computer application later and put the italics in.\n\nThanks.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):175250730','',0,0),(2793,6196,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-31 01:18:00','2011-03-31 01:18:00','No - haven\'t found anything. Shame really',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):175261271','',2792,0),(2794,6196,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-03-31 16:23:00','2011-03-31 16:23:00','Ever thought of just using whatever app you like best and simply using Markdown or something to put the italics in?  I use WriteMonkey mostly on windows and it doesn\'t support any formatting, either, but it does support various forms of markup (like Markdown or Textile).  With it you just input a word that needs to be italicized like _this_ , and it can be output to Word or whatever through a filter that formats anything that\'s marked up like that.  I don\'t know Mac stuff, but lots of Mac guys (like http://www.practicallyefficient.com/ for example) are always using things like that and would probably make a good resource to setting something like that up for yourself.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):175602968','',2793,0),(2795,6196,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-03-31 16:27:00','2011-03-31 16:27:00','I have thought about that but it would seem a bit odd to me. Like going back\r\nto Wordstar',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):175604836','',2794,0),(2796,6196,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-03-31 17:33:00','2011-03-31 17:33:00','Ah, Wordstar ... yeah, I was a little young at the time, and I totally grew up out in the middle of nowhere (if you know where St. Louis is, just head north an hour-and-a-half until you\'re basically an hour-and-a-half away from any place worth going, then you\'ll have an idea), but my mother somehow got in with the only place for 80-90 miles doing DTP with early Macs.  They had loads of hardware and mom was always working late so alot of my middle school papers were written in Wordstar and printed out, tractor-feed style ;-p\n\nGood times ...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):175653935','',2795,0),(2802,7958,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-06 10:27:00','2011-04-06 10:27:00','Should have guessed...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):178990417','',2801,0),(2803,7965,'Michaelh Snelgrove','michaelhsnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','','2011-04-06 18:41:00','2011-04-06 18:41:00','My head hurts...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):179256609','',0,0),(2804,7965,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-06 18:42:00','2011-04-06 18:42:00','I simplified it a bit actually',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):179258080','',2803,0),(2805,7976,'Nick Robinson','','http://twitter.com/thamuhacha','','2011-04-07 13:46:00','2011-04-07 13:46:00','This might be something of an extreme example:  I\'ve just come back to an idea I did a lot of research and prep on about 4 years ago.   It never got going because I couldn\'t actually find a story amidst all of the mess I had made.  When I came back to it I found a completely new direction within a few hours.  ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):179827569','',0,0),(2806,7976,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-07 13:48:00','2011-04-07 13:48:00','Sounds like a very good example to me -- and a great reason why one should never ever throw things away.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):179828117','',2805,0),(2807,7976,'','rca.harris@gmail.com','','','2011-04-08 14:23:00','2011-04-08 14:23:00','Very helpful post for writers.  It\'s never fails to amaze me how sticky thickets in the course of a ms so often have perfectly simple resolutions!  Those duh! moments keep you humble for sure. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):180894580','',0,0),(2808,7965,'Michaelh Snelgrove','michaelhsnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','','2011-04-09 07:57:00','2011-04-09 07:57:00','Aaaaaarrggh! The pain! The pain!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):181363333','',2804,0),(2809,7965,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-09 07:58:00','2011-04-09 07:58:00','You should try the pain of losing stuff... that really isn\'t good...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):181363476','',2808,0),(2810,7989,'Alan','tontowilliams@gmail.com','','','2011-04-11 21:17:00','2011-04-11 21:17:00','Even as someone who writes in their \"spare time\" I get the same feeling. I sat down on Saturday afternoon to write, started on project 1 but it wasn\'t happening. Switched to project 2 and wrote a scene that I was reasonably happy with as a draft, but it was a struggle to discipline myself not to surf the web and check twitter. \n\nIf I ever do this full time, it\'ll be a nightmare!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):182736063','',0,0),(2811,7989,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-12 06:15:00','2011-04-12 06:15:00','I suspect you just can\'t predict things sometimes. Which makes life more interesting@',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183033554','',2810,0),(2812,7997,'ej','ej@ejmckenna.com','','','2011-04-12 08:49:00','2011-04-12 08:49:00','This makes me insanely mad. There is a legitimate way to get books for \'free\'.  It\'s called visiting a library.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183073821','',0,0),(2813,7997,'Neil Dixon','me@neildixon.com','http://neildixon.com','','2011-04-12 09:47:00','2011-04-12 09:47:00','It\'s not much, but I flagged each of those twitter accounts in your first screen-grab as spammers. The more spam flags twitter gets, the more chance they will shut the accounts down. It\'s temporary as they can always create a new twitter account, but it\'s better than nothing.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183084440','',0,0),(2814,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-12 09:49:00','2011-04-12 09:49:00','Thanks. I did spam them myself too actually. I do wonder though - will Twitter regard them as spam? They\'re just tweeting, not aiming at anyone.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183084700','',2813,0),(2815,7997,'Neil Dixon','me@neildixon.com','http://neildixon.com','','2011-04-12 10:41:00','2011-04-12 10:41:00','Those that clearly post automated, identically formatted tweets are more likely to be removed. I\'ve no idea as to twitter\'s policy on blatant links to illegitimate content, so it will be interesting to keep an eye on the accounts.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183097879','',2814,0),(2816,7997,'Apathtolunch','apathtolunch@gmail.com','','','2011-04-12 13:10:00','2011-04-12 13:10:00','Get resigned, the future is darker than you can imagine. I used to make a good living selling rights to stock photographs. Poof, no industry left. Think buggy whips.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183140632','',0,0),(2817,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-12 13:15:00','2011-04-12 13:15:00','To be honest I don\'t worry so much on my part. I\'ve got other deals - foreign rights, audio, TV -- that spread the risk and I\'ve been around long enough to have something of a portfolio. But for new writers coming into this business and trying to make it.... piracy could cripple them.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183142302','',2816,0),(2818,7997,'Eric Woning','','http://twitter.com/koningwoning','','2011-04-12 14:35:00','2011-04-12 14:35:00','David Hewson - I personally ascribe to the view that piracy is not your problem... obscurity is the problem.\nHow many people can actually read a PDF well - like a book? if it is 0,5% it is a LOT. The fact that these SPAMBots are using your work for it is more like a form of advertising (I had not hear of you to be honest)\n\nI\'ve downloaded (legally) a number of books... among them \'Free\' by Chris Anderson - I also downloaded (Free) the audiobook and then bought the actual copy... and next time he comes to speak somewhere in NL I\'m probably going to fork over E 100 or so to see him speak.  \nThe problem becomes when your actual product does not give anything more than the actual words.... try reading C@ntent by Cory Doctorw (@doctorow) and you\'ll get what I mean.\n\nI think SPAM - any form... but especially on personal media such as a Phone or something like Twitter (which you admit to have done yourself !) is a far worse symptom. It is clogging up our ability to use a system (the internet) well.... so get as mad at yourself for doing just that! \nCall it Karma that you now are getting worked up over this!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183178254','',0,0),(2819,7997,'Eric Woning','','http://twitter.com/koningwoning','','2011-04-12 14:38:00','2011-04-12 14:38:00','New writers should embrace the medium instead of work against it.... use it to spread your work! \nThe real reason you might be so worked up is that aparantly no real person is writing anything about you anymore on twitter instead of the SPAMBots use your name',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183179612','',2817,0),(2820,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-12 14:39:00','2011-04-12 14:39:00','Oh yes - the \'we\'re advertising your work so others can steal it\' fantasy. \r\n\r\nOne question amidst all this fantasy... where exactly do I \'admit to spam\' myself?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183179878','',2818,0),(2821,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-12 14:43:00','2011-04-12 14:43:00','That\'s it - insult people. Adds verisimilitude to your \'argument\'. Who said no one writes about me on Twitter any more??? Do you even look before writing this drivel? Are you aware that there are books out there that aren\'t aimed at male geeks?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183181850','',2819,0),(2822,7997,'three pipe problem','','http://twitter.com/3pipenet','','2011-04-12 14:47:00','2011-04-12 14:47:00','This is an increasingly common dilemma faced by authors. I think the key is to not worry about it, because their is really not much you can do to stop it. It is also wrong to assume that these individuals are lost sales - there are no solid metrics supporting that.  \n\nWhat you can conentrate on is creating a loyal fanbase that will gladly pay for your book because they enjoy your work and your pleasant disposition. Becoming the \'guy who rants about book thefts\' will only make you a greater target. Just look at what happenned to Metallica after they went after napster. \n\nKind Regards\nH',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183185004','',0,0),(2823,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-12 15:01:00','2011-04-12 15:01:00','But there is something you can do about it. You can explain to honest book buyers why book theft is a bad idea. Keeping silent while thieves destroy the economic basis of publishing - and stop new writers entering the scene - isn\'t a great idea in my view.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183191248','',2822,0),(2824,7997,'Neil Dixon','me@neildixon.com','http://neildixon.com','','2011-04-12 15:24:00','2011-04-12 15:24:00','Eric, what this comes down to is intent. People like Doctorow and Anderson choose to make their work freely available. That is their chosen method of promotion and distribution. Other authors choose not to make their work freely available, and that choice should be respected.\n\nChris Anderson\'s Free is not a book from which he intends to earn paycheck. It is nothing more than a promotional tool to drive attention and build a platform in order to increase his fee for speaking gigs (and that is perfectly valid). Speaking is his paycheck, not writing. This can be done with non-fiction, particularly non-fiction that appeals to the internet business/commerce/media space.\n\nThe fiction writer who cannot directly and deliberately market to geeks (I use that term in a non-derogatory sense), has far fewer speaking opportunities - virtually none, I\'d say. \n\nWith no disrespect to Mr Hewson, I doubt he would have a bustling army of people ready to hand over the kind of cash Chris Anderson demands, so they can hear him speak (would you pay that much to see your favoured fiction author?). HIs fans want his books, his words, his ideas, his stories, not advice the future of media. \n\nSteal a fiction author\'s words and you destroy their living. Destroy their living and they stop writing. \n\n\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183201071','',2818,0),(2825,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-12 15:35:00','2011-04-12 15:35:00','Spot on Neil. I don\'t know what Cory Doctorow\'s speechmaking income is but for those of us writing fiction we have thing to pay the bills - book sales, and any audio and TV or movie we can get on the side. Comparing novelists to rich businessmen like Anderson or a professional speaker like Doctorow is ridiculous. We\'re lucky if we get expenses to go and talk at events, not fat appearance fees. That\'s the reality for everyone, like it or not.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183207402','',2824,0),(2826,7997,'Tj_lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-04-13 04:02:00','2011-04-13 04:02:00','And as Dave had enlightened me about, in many countries (but not here in the US, strangely enough), borrowing a book from the library can put some tiny bit of money in the author\'s pocket as well as being free to the reader (except for the taxes they pay that go into the library system ;-p ), not to mention being an honest, paper copy that actually makes it feel like I\'m reading a book, not just some fanfiction.\n\nAs for the US, I recommend to everyone, if they like a book or an author, even if they\'ve bought a copy for themselves, should look into their library to see if they have copies.  If they don\'t, a lot of libraries will take requests, often online, for books the district should purchase.  I know around where I live, and I think its standard procedure for libraries in the US, to purchase copies at full price, so royalties are full, the publisher makes full margin, and everyone involved can be a little happier.\n\nI mean I just recently read Antiphon, the latest from Ken Scholes, and I\'m totally digging the series, so I thought to go check my library district\'s online catalog, and they\'ve got the first two volumes, but not Antiphon, which is not all that new of a release by this point, so if they were going to get it on their own recognizance, they would have already.  So I filled out the online request form, and about a week later, they had bought 4 copies for the district\'s collection.  Now, I know that doesn\'t sound like much, but think, how many county library districts are there in the US.  Wikipedia suggests the number is 3,143, and if you have a small, loyal fanbase who could cause the libraries here purchase an \"average\" of 1 per county, that could do alot of good for a new writer\'s career.  If its a hardback release, that would come very close to earning out a fairly average advance for a first novel.  It would also be a big chunk helping to sell out the fairly standard first print run of 10k, and that seems to be a big hurdle for alot of new authors in the traditional publishing pipeline.\n\nI know I digress, but ej was entirely correct in reminding people of the libraries.  Sure we\'re paying for it, but we would whether we used the libraries or not, and there is conveniently no payment at the point of consumption.  If used properly, readers can turn the library systems into a bit of a safety net for their favorite authors with no real cost in time or money.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183562468','',2812,0),(2827,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-13 05:48:00','2011-04-13 05:48:00','Libraries are important for so many reasons which is why most authors go out of their way to support them. And asking for books is a really good idea as you suggest. They will respond to reader requests.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183588826','',2826,0),(2828,8022,'sarah','sarah@firsthand.net','','','2011-04-13 08:30:00','2011-04-13 08:30:00','Harlan Ellison is now my hero!  It\'ll be interesting to see how the lawsuit works out.  I don\'t think they stand a chance of getting back pay, but if the 9,000 bloggers truly made up 1/3 of HuffPo\'s value, then surely AOL will be paying them in the future.  (I won\'t be holding my breath.)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183622578','',0,0),(2829,8022,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-13 08:40:00','2011-04-13 08:40:00','That is a great rant from him, isn\'t it? No - I don\'t hold out much hope for the HuffPo bloggers - on either count.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183624866','',2828,0),(2830,8010,'Can you afford a monoculture career? — Chocolate and Vodka','','http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/','195.216.197.51','2011-04-13 13:38:29','2011-04-13 12:38:29','[...] discussion was prompted by a blog post of David Hewson&#8217;s, Why I don’t take career advice from Cory Doctorow, in which he basically says &#8220;A publishing model that works for Cory Doctorow will never work [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/2.8.6','pingback',0,0),(2831,8022,'B.C. Young','','http://the-time-capsule.com/','','2011-04-13 13:21:00','2011-04-13 13:21:00','If you give free than you should receive free, I say.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183720749','',0,0),(2833,8010,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-13 18:01:00','2011-04-13 18:01:00','Yes that\'s exactly how I remember it. I think it was before he wrote much\r\nfiction too. Not sure I got the point there',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183876108','',2832,0),(2834,7997,'Can you afford a monoculture career? — Chocolate and Vodka','','http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/','195.216.197.51','2011-04-13 19:14:14','2011-04-13 18:14:14','[...] me&#8221;. This was in response to comments on a previous post of Hewson&#8217;s in which he got understandably cross about people digitising is work and then selling it despite not being licensed to. Some commenters pointed at Cory&#8217;s model as one to adopt as it [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/2.8.6','pingback',0,0),(2835,8022,'Irene Vernardis','jacqvern@gmail.com','http://profiles.google.com/jacqvern','','2011-04-13 18:56:00','2011-04-13 18:56:00','Sorry, but who made them do it? Did anyone hold them at gun point and force them to write?\n\nIf she didn\'t sell it, would they have continued to write for free?  I think it\'s a safe bet.\n\nIt\'s like I give free books for promotion and afterwards I ask the readers who received the free book to pay for it...\n\nThank you for the post :)\n\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183906184','',0,0),(2836,8040,'Clare Davies','','http://twitter.com/MonacoMad','','2011-04-13 19:39:00','2011-04-13 19:39:00','Loving the new covers, shame i have already got all the books apart from your new one...xx',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183928824','',0,0),(2837,8040,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-13 19:49:00','2011-04-13 19:49:00','They are the same books so no need to buy new ones. But it\'s nice to have a second life for them... and they will be trade paperbacks so should stand out too.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):183933395','',2836,0),(2838,8058,'Can you afford a monoculture career? — Chocolate and Vodka','','http://chocolateandvodka.com/2011/04/13/can-you-afford-a-monoculture-career/','195.216.197.51','2011-04-13 22:24:15','2011-04-13 21:24:15','[...] UPDATE 2: David Hewson has written another blog post to more fully explore his thoughts on the matter: Don’t give up the day job (until the time is right). [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/2.8.6','pingback',0,0),(2839,7847,'e-Books International | Cora Buhlert','','http://corabuhlert.com/2011/04/14/e-books-international/','208.43.76.6','2011-04-14 04:33:50','2011-04-14 03:33:50','[...] British crime fiction writer David Hewson has not so enthusiastic view on e-books and indie publishi... [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.1.1','pingback',0,0),(2840,8010,'Lloyd','lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk','','','2011-04-13 21:24:00','2011-04-13 21:24:00','Clarke proposing navigation using geostationary satellites as beacons in an idle thought (which is more analogous to EGNOS) is not the same as inventing GPS, and is not the same as building a revenue stream from it.\nDetails in http://dvice.com/archives/2010/07/arthur-c-clarke.php\nSteven Johnson\'s TED talk has an entertaining and slightly more accurate take on how GPS was invented.\nhttp://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html\n\nDoctorow has never let mere facts get in the way of his rhetoric. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184010846','',0,0),(2841,8010,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-14 05:06:00','2011-04-14 05:06:00','Quite a big fact too',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184215649','',2840,0),(2842,8058,'Neil Dixon','me@neildixon.com','http://neildixon.com','','2011-04-14 07:42:00','2011-04-14 07:42:00','As someone just starting out in this game, I find it wholly disheartening to consider a long term future where the writing itself remains the part-time, sidelined activity. I write because I want to tell stories, and I cannot hope to explore even the current teetering stack of ideas while barely stealing 2-3 hours of writing time late in the evening after a full day\'s work. \n\nThe notion that it is acceptable to allow literature de-evolve into little more than promotional tools for more profitable enterprises demonstrates anything but a respect for the medium. If this attitude is permitted to propagate, literature is bound to suffer. But what does it really matter: it\'s not as if literature has ever made any real difference historically, right? ;)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184254953','',0,0),(2843,8037,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','','2011-04-14 07:51:00','2011-04-14 07:51:00','Nisus Writer Pro is overdue a significant upgrade.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184256899','',0,0),(2844,8037,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-14 07:56:00','2011-04-14 07:56:00','Long, long overdue... I bought the Pro version but gave up on the lack of outlining and similar things.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184257894','',2843,0),(2845,8058,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-14 07:59:00','2011-04-14 07:59:00','The pen is mightier than the sword always seemed to me the most idiotic of mantras. But more seriously... I think it makes sense not to leap until you feel happy about it. But some of us - perhaps most in the end - have to leap to see what we can really achieve. And in spite of what Doctorow keeps on repeating an awful lot of people do make modest to decent livings out of full-time writing. It\'s not easy and it takes time. I do cringe at some of the celeb culture stuff now going on to be frank. Crude self publicity isn\'t pretty.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184258470','',2842,0),(2846,8090,'Alan','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','','2011-04-14 14:39:00','2011-04-14 14:39:00','Well I can\'t speak to the mower, but I certainly think about what I\'m working on when walking the dogs. There have been many a walk where ideas have started from. Some of them develop, some don\'t but when they don\'t there\'s always another there on the next walk. No shortage of them, just short of time to write them into stories. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184375333','',0,0),(2848,8090,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-14 15:51:00','2011-04-14 15:51:00','I think you\'re absolutely correct there, Robert. Makes eminent sense. Dealing with the grass has always worked for me though I\'m slightly amazed I haven\'t driven the tractor off the lawn at times when a good idea strikes.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184429618','',2847,0),(2849,8081,'Tracey Luke','','http://twitter.com/TraceyLuke','','2011-04-14 17:01:00','2011-04-14 17:01:00','Awesome! Thanks. I\'m still new to Scrivener and the more I use it the more things I find. I\'m not sure I\'ll ever use all the features but I\'m enjoying learning about them.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184495548','',0,0),(2850,8081,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-14 17:56:00','2011-04-14 17:56:00','There\'s a lot in there... even for old hands',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184522923','',2849,0),(2851,8081,'Brenna Braaten','','http://twitter.com/brennabraaten','','2011-04-14 19:00:00','2011-04-14 19:00:00','That\'s. . . awesome. I will consider that from now on. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184570287','',0,0),(2852,8090,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-14 20:11:00','2011-04-14 20:11:00','It never ceases to amaze me how many writing types are also into dogs. I can\'t believe it\'s coincidence.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184628982','',2846,0),(2853,8090,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-04-14 20:23:00','2011-04-14 20:23:00','I think part of it is also the change of pace.\n\nI mean, I often get some good thinking in while driving about on autopilot, chauffeuring the kids about, but a few weeks ago, my car was in the shop for a few days so I was driving the wife\'s and trying to make sure everyone still got where they needed to be and got picked up in a timely fashion.  It wasn\'t my car, and for some reason, I felt obliged not to switch my wife\'s music for something more my taste, and mostly that was just bugging me.\n\nThen one evening, as I was carting kids to a session at one of the more distant libraries in our district so we\'d all be out of the wife\'s hair while she taught piano lessons at the house, and some combo of the odd car, the odd music and the odd drive gave me a sudden and overwhelming epiphany.  I almost couldn\'t get to the library quick enough.  Buckled the kids into their favorite activities, planted myself at a table guarding the entrance to the kids area and whipped out my trusty old AS3K.\n\nI wrote nearly 3k words worth of notes, mainly as regarding said epiphany which looks to cover most of the dreaded middle of my WIP, but once the floodgates were opened, I got notes on a couple of other projects that have been on/off over the past couple years and even a brand new thought on an old concept that as far as I can tell, had never existed anywhere but in my head for nearly two decades.\n\nAll that in 40 minutes ... powerful stuff.  Sure its wonderful when it all comes together like that, but I don\'t think I could survive if every day of writing was like that ;-p',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184637746','',0,0),(2854,8010,'Lloyd','lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk','','','2011-04-15 00:10:00','2011-04-15 00:10:00','Clarke\'s second revenue stream was running a scuba diving school in Sri Lanka. Asimov\'s was writing factual science books. Doctorow\'s is talking about Cory Doctorow.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184761845','',2832,0),(2855,8081,'Irene Vernardis','jacqvern@gmail.com','http://profiles.google.com/jacqvern','','2011-04-15 08:29:00','2011-04-15 08:29:00','Thank you :D I\'m using it for 2 weeks and still learning.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184926642','',0,0),(2856,8120,'sasha barr','sashabarin@gmail.com','http://profiles.google.com/sashabarin','','2011-04-15 10:39:00','2011-04-15 10:39:00','There are millions (or maybe billions) of scam sites on the net. Not all of them claim to sell \"stolen\" e-books. Some of them claim things that are completely legit. There are also plenty sharing sites that require absolutely nothing out of the user and as I understand, these sites are the ones with heaviest traffic. The example you are showing in your post has nothing to do with shared. It has to do with common human greed, and attempt to find criminal ways to take advantage of the unstable situation. Sort of like war on drugs. You criminalize drugs, and give way to a wave of new crime, related to you criminalizing drugs. Of course this isn\'t easy to solve - both outcomes being evil: either letting go of ideals and principles, or continuing to spend to fight a war that you cannot possibly win.\nWhat Cory Doctorow keeps repeating: one of the great reasons why his e-books are free, is because it makes the whole thing mute. If the e-books are already free, and available on all well-known sites, there is no reason to go after them to the fishy sites. Of course Internet scammers will find way to scam others with or without Doctorow\'s e-books. \nLastly, you will never find out where the scammers are sitting, not by information you will find on the web. They often use bots/zombie computers to avoid being tracked down. It takes entire teams of \"counter hackers\" to track them down. As I think Wiki claims, most Internet scammers are located in China, Eastern Europe and parts of Africa.\n\nSasha Barin',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184953300','',0,0),(2857,8120,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-15 11:24:00','2011-04-15 11:24:00','What Doctorow keeps repeating is about Doctorow and Doctorow alone. Other writers don\'t have fat speaking fees and blog site ad revenues to live off. I know the Cult of Doctorow  - Doctorowroids? - find this hard to believe but one lone individual\'s experience does not apply to everyone else in the writing business. \n\nGo find someone else earning a living like that  - or try to doing it yourself. You\'ll soon discover how illusory all those infantile dreams are - and frankly damaging to the rest of the industry in that they clearly encourage book theft.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):184974474','',2856,0),(2858,8104,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-04-15 16:46:00','2011-04-15 16:46:00','Everyone watching their own rear ends, keeping secure by decentralization and community support seems the most secure route short of WordPress shoring up their staff and/or IP to beef up their security offerings',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185184837','',0,0),(2859,8104,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-15 16:57:00','2011-04-15 16:57:00','Still waiting for a response for my cancellation request -- you can\'t do it through your account page. Guess they will be busy though. Shame - I do think Wordpress is fabulous. But I don\'t want the hassle of changing all those C Panel passwords again.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185190756','',2858,0),(2860,8104,'Todd Lucas','tj_lucas@netzero.net','','','2011-04-15 18:07:00','2011-04-15 18:07:00','I totally agree that WordPress is great.  Unfortunately, most people think its great primarily because they get all they need from it for free.  There\'s money there, to be sure, but not enough to call down a Microsoft level of update and security patching.\n\nI didn\'t know about Vaultpress, but given the way you\'re saying its setup, and the amount of trouble it seems to cause to allow for a non-complete solution level, it would seem as if that should be a free version of the service and that the monthly fee should get you a version that gives you a streamlined interface and plugs the holes that we\'ve just witnessed in how it operates.\n\nLike you said, its a shame, but you typically can\'t keep a good app down for long (for example, revisit your thoughts on Word 2010; I thought they\'d broken it with 2003 and rendered it unusable with 2007, but now look who\'s back and better than ever).  Remember when spam had been such a crippling problem for so many WP users?  Well, here\'s hoping WP is gearing up for a similar scenario to secure against stuff like this.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185228310','',2859,0),(2861,8151,'Peter Labrow','','http://twitter.com/labrow','','2011-04-16 12:49:00','2011-04-16 12:49:00','A great post David; thanks for taking this debate from Twitter onto your blog. As always, you make some excellent points. There are some I disagree with.\n\nAs you know, I’m self-published. By choice. This isn’t because I reject the ‘old publishing model’ – far from it: I have no issue at all working with a publisher, agent or both. For me, self-publish allows me to find my feet; test the waters. It’s an interesting route to market – one which enables me to build an audience without first finding a publisher.\n\nSo, the points I don’t agree with. “What happens when the materials runs out.” Why would this happen? New writers start writing every day. New writers are born every day. I can’t see a valid reason for indie authors to evaporate – in the same way I can’t see a reason for traditionally published authors to evaporate. I wrote The Well from scratch. I’m working on my next novel from scratch along with a collection of short stories. I agree that the market does contain people revisiting rejected stuff, but so what? How many times was Harry Potter rejected? Rejected does not have to mean it’s rubbish: it just means it’s rejected. \n\nYou make an excellent point about having the energy to continue if the money is just a trickle. My fiction-writing does not provide my income, no doubt about it. Sales are ‘OK’ but reviews are excellent – 4/5 stars. I’m building an audience, slowly. Yes, I’d prefer it with a publisher – but I prefer doing it on my own to not doing it at all. My answer is that I will continue to write – around my day job, of course. If reviews were terrible across the board, that would be a better reason to throw in the towel.\n\nI agree, Amanda Hockling is atypical.  It’s a good press story. But having a traditional publishing deal doesn’t mean you’re selling millions. Many, many authors fail to sell their initial runs. I don’t believe I’m fated to be a Hockling-like success, but that’s OK. If I can get my income, or part of it, from writing, I’m cool with that. But again, I don’t see that indie/traditional is a determining factor in success, though I’d say that the chips fall down in the side of traditional because of publishers’ marketing power, review contacts, expertise, experience and many more things. Being serious about writing and being indie is damned hard – I know it, I had to pay for my own editor, proofreader, illustrator, you name it. I’m now directing the (rather ambitious) trailer for The Well. \n\nAnd too true, why shouldn’t Hockling take a traditional publishing deal? It means that she can concentrate on writing (mainly) and not the million other things that an agent or publisher would handle for you. As I said: I self-published for pragmatic reasons not ideological ones. I’d work with a publisher who believed in me, no problem.\n\nI’m not sure I agree on saturation, though I think inevitably that there is a flood of unrestricted material hitting the virtual shelves. Since it’s actually pretty hard to write a novel, or more than one, I can’t see people keep throwing themselves at writing if they don’t get anywhere. I think that the market will decide who’s good and not – and those who don’t sell will give up. But perhaps for every 100 (or 1000) people who publish something turgid, a writer who is a real gem will be found – someone who perhaps will have pounded the streets for years being turned down by publishers.\n\nStandards is an issue. I agree: it’s Kindle’s day. As an indie, it’s frighteningly hard to prepare manuscripts for different channels. That’s why I’ve stuck with Amazon, Lulu and the iBookstore. I’m pragmatic. And short on time.\n\nVisibility. Spot on. It’s hard for self-publishers to access the same forums as traditional authors since there’s no value in it to anyone else involved.\n\nWhat concerns me is that some people still judge the self-published as a mass, without considering the work of individual authors – as if my writing is less real or valid simply by virtue of not having the affirmation of a publisher. No publisher has rejected my work – because I’ve not approached one.  My first novel is getting 4/5-star ratings and excellent reviews from the people that matter. (And these don’t mainly comprise, as Nicola Morgan said, other unpublished writers.) I just love the prejudice in that terminology: unpublished. I’m not unpublished: I’m self-published.\n\nIt also concerns me that there is some really unhelpful polarisation in this debate. Self-publishing is just a route to market. Nothing more.  Being traditionally published is not, in itself, any assurance of quality; being self-published is not, in itself, any proof that the work is of less quality or worth.\n\nThe bottom line – your bottom line – is that you need a damn good publisher. Need is a strong word. But actually, I agree – so you can concentrate on your craft and maximise the time writing. I suspect I can only go so far as an indie. \n\nSo, if I publisher snaps me up tomorrow, is The Well suddenly a ‘real’ book? \n\nWonderful post David – and I mean that. You’re a great, sharing writer, I love your blog.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185656003','',0,0),(2862,8151,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-16 13:31:00','2011-04-16 13:31:00','&gt;So, if I publisher snaps me up tomorrow, is The Well suddenly a ‘real’ book? \n\nThat\'s not for me to say. What is a \'real\' book? I suspect most readers buying ebooks have no idea whether they\'re buying self pubbed or not. If it\'s well done why should they? You\'re very wise in paying for editor, proofreader, illustrator and the rest by the way -- and I suspect something of an exception. \n\nI honestly don\'t know the answer to the question I set above. It\'s going to be fascinating to find out. The prizes will, in the end, go to those who stay the course and do things well, and realising you need that extra assistance is one way of getting to both those points. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185666022','',2861,0),(2863,8151,'Jenni Holbrook-Talty','','http://twitter.com/JenniHolbrook','','2011-04-16 13:43:00','2011-04-16 13:43:00','This is something Bob Mayer and I constantly discuss. We started out with his backlist and a couple of my backlist books. We recently just published his epic Novel Duty Honor Country, A Novel of West Point to the Civil War. We did it partly because the day we released it was the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War. NY would not have been able to get the book out on the date considering when it was finish.\n\nI\'m a business person by training. My degree is Business with a concentration in Marketing and Sales. Going into this business with Bob we knew exactly what we were getting into. We\'ve always said it\'s just as hard as traditional publishing, and it is. Yes, the books get published, but they have to find their audience. We are doing all the same things promotion wise that we would have done with NY.\n\nEveryone talks about Amanda, because she hit what a lot people would consider pay dirt. We talk of Konrath,  Bob Mayer, LJ Sellers, Barry Eisler and Connie Brockway because they all were successful in traditional publishing and then went their own way. Konrath and Bob have been having great success with their efforts. It can be argued its because they already had a strong readership and long history with publishing. \n\nAnyone who goes into self-publishing needs to educate themselves on how to market their books. Anyone who gets a NY contract needs to the same thing. The newly NY published author has just as a big of an up hill climb as the author that chooses alternative methods. Most first novels fail partly because of the business model we work in. The distribution channels are changing. Consumers are buying more and more eBooks. Yes, there is a saturation level, that is true in any business, however, it is much harder today to get that good publisher that will put their publishing power behind a new author, so why not give self-publishing a shot? The opportunities are there for authors with good solidly written books. Amanda came out of self-publishing and I bet there will be others.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185669234','',0,0),(2864,8151,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-16 13:45:00','2011-04-16 13:45:00','Good points Jenni. You\'re in the US - which is probably 100 times the size of the UK market and the rest of the world combined. It\'s even tougher for people from outside where the potential audience is a fraction of the size and people don\'t have your canny knowledge of what\'s going on.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185670603','',2863,0),(2865,8151,'Jenni Holbrook-Talty','','http://twitter.com/JenniHolbrook','','2011-04-16 14:07:00','2011-04-16 14:07:00','Argh, wordpress eat my comment. You hit a good point -- Knowledge. Combine Bob\'s 20+ years in traditional publishing with my epublishing and technology background, we might have had a head start, but it\'s still just as hard to \"make it\" big. Takes time, energy and work. But I love being a writer, so I wouldn\'t have it any other way. Hope to see you at TFest!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185676188','',0,0),(2866,8151,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.41.235.83','2011-04-16 16:47:46','2011-04-16 15:47:46','I\'m going to be in the bar most of the time do I doubt we\'ll meet',0,'1','wp-android/1.3.9','',2865,1),(2867,8151,'Peter Labrow','','http://twitter.com/labrow','','2011-04-16 16:53:00','2011-04-16 16:53:00','Most people are astonished when I tell them about editing, proofing and so on. More astonished when I tell them I revised my manuscript ten times. (In fairness, when you\'re writing on top of doing a day job, the work just can\'t be as sharp, so I reckon that\'s probably three or four of the revisions.) Like you, I don\'t have the answer - these are interesting times. I don\'t buy into the way the press like to portray this as a new battleground, with publishing losing out to indies - that\'s just nonsense. But I do think the changes are a challenge for publishers. At the end of the day, publisher want authors who can sell books - perhaps the savvy publishers will add popular independent authors to their watch lists. Who knows? It\'s going to be an interesting few years.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185740301','',2862,0),(2868,8163,'Peter Labrow','','http://twitter.com/labrow','','2011-04-16 16:55:00','2011-04-16 16:55:00','I use mind-mapping to take notes in business meetings, but I don\'t think I could ever use it to structure a creative piece. It soon becomes unwieldy to me. This is possibly a failing of mine, too!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185741318','',0,0),(2869,8163,'Scott Perkins','','http://twitter.com/Pages2Type','','2011-04-17 02:04:00','2011-04-17 02:04:00','Where the marketers of these things fall short is in thinking that their strategies are universally applicable. It depends upon your learning style or perhaps how organized your thinking is to begin with. Some people have more trouble than others spotting logical adjacency between two ideas.  Like you, I find them pretty much useless.  However, I spend a lot of time with students who have learning disabilities who find these programs invaluable to organize their thoughts into a cogent paper.  In some cases, it seems to be the only thing that can.\n\nIf they work for you, they\'re great.  If you don\'t need them, they\'re just a waste of time and money. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):185923847','',0,0),(2870,8010,'','spooky@mailinator.com','','','2011-04-17 04:21:00','2011-04-17 04:21:00','Cory\'s simply explaining that you CAN\'T stop piracy, so you HAVE TO find a way to make a living in a bits economy. It\'s that simple.  I\'m unique among geek/maker/hacker types in that few of us can say we\'ve never pirated anything, though I have not.  I have read exclusively from electronic format in the 21st century, and if I can\'t get you on ebook I simply won\'t read you.  There are plenty of great books I can get, I don\'t need the authors who insist on living in the last millenium.  I won\'t buy anything published by Harper Collins if they insist on a 26 checkouts for ebooks for libraries policy.  Our public library can show you copies of books checked out 500 or more times and still usable--that 26 is the average number of checkouts before a paper book needs replacing is simply absurd.  Authors who claim that every pirate copy is a lost sale are kidding themselves.  Few people who pirated your book consider it worth paying for.  Pirates pay for what they actually like.  Music pirates demonstrably spend more than twice as much money on non-pirated music as non-pirates.  \n\nCory doesn\'t seem to be having any difficulty supporting his family while using his own method of marketing, so I suppose it must work.  And he doesn\'t mention it, but the vast majority of Cory\'s speaking engagements are not paid; for SF conventions and most other organizations he accepts expenses only.  His income IS NOT speaking fees.\n\nBTW, your books were recommended to me just last week by a friend who also reads crime novels.  Since stumbling upon this online I know I won\'t be reading them.  How many great ideas could come from a mind that can\'t even see what\'s in front of his face?\n\nYou don\'t have to like it, but you DO have to join us here in the 21st century.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):186028905','',0,0),(2871,8010,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-17 06:45:00','2011-04-17 06:45:00','Oh dear. My opinions have prevented you stealing my book. I am truly concerned. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):186072792','',2870,0),(2872,8163,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-17 08:53:00','2011-04-17 08:53:00','They have to work for some people or there wouldn\'t be so many of them I guess. I just can\'t get to grips with them in any way. I mean - here\'s a mind map for War and Peace. Look at it at your own peril!\n\nhttp://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/war-and-peace-6e562dc2561b41d59691d25322ed1db7',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):186100215','',2869,0),(2873,8010,'mkay','thegimleteye@yahoo.com','','','2011-04-17 18:35:00','2011-04-17 18:35:00','Isn\'t interesting how 20% of the market thinks it wags the dog? I\'ve taken to pointing out to people that a decade after the advent of iTunes, the music industry, which is often used as a (false) analogy to ebooks, makes only 30% of its revenues from digital. The future of ebooks is not inevitable. Nothing is.\n\nI also find it amusing and ironic that this poster castigates you, but loves Doctorow---who bragged in the Twitter stream that his made a mid-six figure advance from the same dinosaur industry this guy loathes.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):186311733','',2871,0),(2874,8110,'Roy Judd','','http://twitter.com/RoyJudd','','2011-04-17 21:07:00','2011-04-17 21:07:00','Hi David\n\nTry an OO level 2 indent – that will translate as a Scrivener synopsis, while an OO item note becomes the Scrivener body text. Easy Peasy.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):186357132','',0,0),(2875,8110,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-18 06:58:00','2011-04-18 06:58:00','Aha - thanks. I was using the Omnioutliner Sherlock file which is obviously not formatted that way.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):186798882','',2874,0),(2876,8168,'Reacher','reacher@libertine.org','','','2011-04-18 21:55:00','2011-04-18 21:55:00','So the voyage of discovery stage is the most enjoyable for you? I\'d think that would be the most stressful since it is steeped in the unknown.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):187136201','',0,0),(2877,8168,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-19 07:02:00','2011-04-19 07:02:00','Discovery\'s fun. I don\'t find any stage of writing stressful. If it isn\'t working I just walk away and come back later.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):187441072','',2876,0),(2878,8168,'','jaze@echonyc.com','','','2011-04-19 11:47:00','2011-04-19 11:47:00','I think that \"putting it away and letting it lie fallow for a month before beginning the edit\" is one of the absolutely BEST things you can do to a novel. For various reasons, there was a delay of about 18 months between the time my second novel was published in the UK and before it came out in the US. About a year after I\'d handed it in, I re-edited the book, with the result that the US edition is MUCH stronger than the UK. To the point I feel a little embarrassed by the first book. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):187502100','',0,0),(2879,8168,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-19 11:48:00','2011-04-19 11:48:00','Don\'t feel too bad... you\'re not the only one with that experience. Happened with my third book too...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):187502381','',2878,0),(2880,7997,'Bookmarks for April 13th through April 19th &laquo; Daniel Nisbet','','http://www.iamniz.co.uk/wordpress/2011/04/bookmarks-for-april-13th-through-april-19th/','130.88.204.28','2011-04-19 16:09:52','2011-04-19 15:09:52','[...] The book thieves hit Twitter &ndash; big time &#8211;     Tweet This Post  Delicious  Facebook Filed under: links No Comments [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.1.1','pingback',0,0),(2881,8163,'Rebecca from NZ','rebecca@erlewein.net','http://www.japanese-acupuncture.co.nz','','2011-04-19 22:54:00','2011-04-19 22:54:00','I can see your point, David, and I mostly agree! \nOn the computer, I\'ve used a MM program to outline nonfiction (text books, assignments, etc), but I used a program that - like Scrivener - became \"invisible\" as you used it, most notably didn\'t insist on my using the mouse. So on the computer, I really just use it like an outlining program, as I find it very useful to be able to see more on one page instead of having to scroll down heaps. But since discovering Scriverner a few years back, I haven\'t updated my MM software and can\'t justify the expense either.\nHowever, I am a big fan of MM on paper for a quick \"minddump\", or a deep thinking session about a complex issue. With a pencil. And no, I never use different colours in a first draft of a MM - I find switching pens too interruptive. If I my issue is so complex that I want to revise and make a second or third or fourth MM of the same subject, I may add colour. But again, on paper. Big, large sheets of paper.\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):187936384','',0,0),(2882,7997,'Another Use for Twitter - Stealing Ebooks | The Passive Voice','','http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2011/another-use-for-twitter-stealing-ebooks/','74.220.215.249','2011-04-20 15:22:09','2011-04-20 14:22:09','[...] Link to the rest of David Hewson&#8217;s story at davidhewson.com [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.1.1','pingback',0,0),(2883,8151,'Is the self pub ebook boom sustainable? | The Passive Voice','','http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2011/is-the-self-pub-ebook-boom-sustainable/','74.220.215.249','2011-04-20 16:15:07','2011-04-20 15:15:07','[...] to the rest at davidhewson.com Tweet/Email/Share This Post  Related Posts:No Related [...]',0,'trash','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.1.1','pingback',0,0),(2884,8151,'','claude.forthomme@gmail.com','','','2011-04-20 18:24:00','2011-04-20 18:24:00','Yes, it\'s going to be an interesting few years and I\'ve enjoyed your post, David, as much as your comments, Peter.\n\nI\'m an avid blogger because it  helps me think about our world around us and lets me vent off steam. Twitter is fun too insofar as there\'s the challenge of trying to make a \"striking\" comment in 140 characters...Perhaps one day all this activitiy will help me market an eventual book but...But, where I agree with you David, what is much more fun than building one\'s \"presence on line\" is to get on with the \"real work\" of writing (whether fiction or non-fiction, it\'s the same: writing is much more fun than tweeting!). \n\nSince Amanda Hocking\'s success, the \"bad\" reputation that used to be attached to self-publishing - including such derogatory terms as \"vanity press\" - has somehow dissolved. It\'s become ok, even smart, to consider self-publishing in the e-book market. But...there are many buts and I agree with just about everything you said. The biggest \"but\" is the amount of self-marketing that is required to stand out in this rapidly swelling tsunami of digital publications.\n\nWill the better writers somehow stand out in the end? The e-book market has a \"long tail\": e-books are on virtual shelves \"forever\" while printed books disappear in a matter of months (which is why publishers pull out all the guns at launching time!). But will the best e-books float up and surface? I doubt it. There are over 700,000 titles on Kindle - how do I find those I would enjoy reading? Even as a reader it\'s tough work - imagine as a writer having to self-promote! \n\nCompared to the mp3.com disaster, perhaps our only consolation is that there many more people who think they are musicians and can make some sort of (musical) noise than there are writers who can (actually) write.\n\nBottomline, publishers and editors and agents all have a role to play as \"gatekeepers\" - which is why Amanda Hocking accepted that multi-million contract from St Martin\'s Press. She\'s no fool, she knows on which side her bread is buttered! ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188344219','',2867,0),(2885,8151,'Jason Chatraw','','http://twitter.com/JasonChatrawDCJ','','2011-04-20 21:17:00','2011-04-20 21:17:00','David,\n\nI really like the conversation here and some of your points. However, I think a better question is this: \"Is the traditional publishing model sustainable?\" I started a small non-fiction Christian publishing house seven years ago and was amazed at the broken model the publishing world has fallen into, mostly through the fault of its own starting with the open return policies. I can\'t see it holding up as authors are discovering that there are new markets and new ways to making a living as a writer without the help of a large publisher.\n\nI\'m not sure how well self-publishing with eBooks as it currently exists will be sustainable, but from where I sit, I see publishers needing to adapt to the new market environments by being more nimble, less top heavy, and focusing what authors need most: great editing and sharp marketing. If they can do that, then the conversation will be a moot one. I talk to so many authors each week who have been taken advantage of by publishers and have profited very little. They\'re the ones giving up writing in today\'s environment--and that\'s sad.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188464360','',0,0),(2886,8151,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-21 05:58:00','2011-04-21 05:58:00','Absolutely agree publishers need to change - and authors too. I think that publishers are very aware of this actually. Things are changing though perhaps it\'s not so obvious yet.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188709709','',2885,0),(2887,8151,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-21 07:43:00','2011-04-21 07:43:00','I don\'t really think people self-pubbing should worry to much about \'reputation\'. Really and truly I don\'t think others are going around whispering behind their hands, \'Oh, that\'s a self-pubber.\' We\'re all too busy.\n\nTwo things I recommend of anyone trying to build a career in writing. Develop reasonable expectations and a thick skin. You need the first so you don\'t get a big shock when you don\'t turn into an international bestseller overnight. You need the second because this is a business where someone is always bitching about you wherever you sit in the spectrum. If you\'re popular the literary people whine you\'re low grade. If you\'re literary the popular people moan you don\'t sell but still get reviews. Really -- if you can\'t cut out all that low level noise at some stage you\'ll go mad trying to overhear the next whispered comment.\n\nIt\'s not all like that but it\'s a bit I\'m afraid. And we all get it one way or another. Example: someone has taken what I said above -- all of which is speculative, I\'m not saying any of it will happen -- and blogged that I\'m an arrogant, condescending author no one\'s ever heard of doing down the self-pub movement. Really? I was just trying to offer up some interesting opinions. But people will tend to read into things what they want to read into them.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188738086','',2884,0),(2888,8151,'','claude.forthomme@gmail.com','','','2011-04-21 08:57:00','2011-04-21 08:57:00','Thank you for the helpful comments. You\'re quite right, one needs to (1) have realistic expectations and (2) develop a thick skin. Gossip - because that\'s what all these comments are - should be ignored. I certainly appreciated your post and don\'t think for one moment that you are arrogant, on the contrary!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188754934','',2887,0),(2889,7997,'Tron','divbayon@yahoo.co.uk','','','2011-04-21 09:42:00','2011-04-21 09:42:00','The point you\'ve missed here is that those are spammers, therefore they\'re extremely unlikely to have many human followers. If people aren\'t following them those links won\'t even be seen. Don\'t jump to the usual media conclusion that anything on twitter is seen by everyone...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188763477','',2814,0),(2890,7997,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-21 09:54:00','2011-04-21 09:54:00','I didn\'t miss that point at all actually. Twitter isn\'t the main medium book thieves use. It\'s just one they\'re trying, and seemingly abandoning judging by the way those mentions have tailed off - it clearly doesn\'t work for them for obvious reasons. It\'s a lot easier for them to be picked up through simple Google searches on the files those tweets refer to. Plenty of people are finding their stolen books the obvious way - a simple search. Try that and you\'ll see people having conversations about the books they\'re nicking.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188766045','',2889,0),(2891,8192,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','','2011-04-21 12:47:00','2011-04-21 12:47:00','Dwarsligger. That is neat.  \n\n A funny thing seems to be happening on the way to the Kindle.  The price of digital books are  increasing.  \nA paper back I would buy is $12.23. The Kindle version is $9.89.   \n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188809149','',0,0),(2892,8213,'Mike Jecks','mail@michaeljecks.co.uk','','','2011-04-21 14:50:00','2011-04-21 14:50:00','excellent piece, as usual, David!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):188860048','',0,0),(2893,8226,'Gill James','gill.james@btiniterent.com','http://www.gilljames.co.uk','','2011-04-22 08:00:00','2011-04-22 08:00:00','And when will Joe Public begin to realise that as in any other walk of life most of cost is people\'s salaries. Print cost is acutally low, warehouseing admittedly higher, but then we have to pay for digital warehousing as well not to mention all the expertise that has gone into Kndle\'s ability to be in the first place.      \nWith digital publishing there is less risk. You don\'t have to worry about how many books to print / stock. Apart from set up costs - an hello, there are set-up costs if not for author / publisher for the pwopwl who provide theplatform -  there is no outlay. Once a book sells you have profit on that unit. Then, POD works the same way. Strikes me an e-book at half to two thirds of cost of POD paperback is fair all round - even Smashwords and Amazon need our consideration - after all, human beings work for them.     \nAnd it doesn\'t alter the fact that piracy is illegal and immoral. It is theft and enslavement.  ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189903285','',0,0),(2894,8226,'Peter Labrow','','http://twitter.com/labrow','','2011-04-22 08:17:00','2011-04-22 08:17:00','Have you contacted Amazon to ask them to remove the reviews, David?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189906018','',0,0),(2895,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 08:23:00','2011-04-22 08:23:00','I have. But on past experience this only exacerbates the situation - they tell their mates and come back and do it even more. Last time they invented ten or so new identities just so they could post abuse on a book they clearly hadn\'t read. You give up in the end. Amazon really should make purchase a prerequisite of commenting.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189906994','',2894,0),(2896,8226,'Rosanne Dingli','rosanne.dingli@gmail.com','http://profiles.google.com/rosanne.dingli','','2011-04-22 08:26:00','2011-04-22 08:26:00','This kind of reaction is going to get worse before the chaos settles. We live in interesting publishing times, and no one\'s experience has prepared them for this. Coupled with the developments in epublishing is the economy crisis, the rise (yes, the rise) of universal literacy, and the new markets such as China and India coming to the party. There\'s a lot to digest, and waves of uncertainty among publishers adds to the mix - a mix that makes retailers-cum-publishers Amazon a winner on all counts. It will all level out in the end, but I can\'t predict on what level, or how. \nAuthors have to contend with all this, AND the inundation of neo-\'authors\' providing competition of dubious value. The over-supply of reading material and the presence of more authors than readers on the market will eventually dwindle, according to the laws of market forces and survival of the readable.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189907551','',0,0),(2897,8226,'Jenna','s.chilman@yahoo.com','','','2011-04-22 08:28:00','2011-04-22 08:28:00','I\'m so sorry this has escalated for you. The reason I\'m staying anonymous in my own version of this - an aggressive, completely unfair 1* review I\'ve just received on one of my ebooks. If I openly challenged this guy he sounds like the nasty sort of character who\'d up his campaign and start leaving his poison on all my other books. Amazon has got to pay more attention to the content and the systems of these people. \'Read All My Reviews\' reveals he\'d given similar quick put-downs (all written ON THE SAME DAY) to several other books in the same genre. The only other reviews were 2 5 star raves for his own books! It\'s the kind of  spamming of the competition that TripAdvisor has taken action on. Amazon has to do the same.   ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189907816','',0,0),(2898,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 08:28:00','2011-04-22 08:28:00','I agree - the present frenzy is unsustainable - http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/is-the-self-pub-ebook-book-sustainable/',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189907875','',2896,0),(2899,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 08:28:00','2011-04-22 08:28:00','I agree - the present frenzy is unsustainable - http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/is-the-self-pub-ebook-book-sustainable/',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189907875','',2896,0),(2900,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 08:32:00','2011-04-22 08:32:00','Please don\'t feel sorry for me. I know what I\'m inviting if I stand up and say what I think. For ten years I was a columnist on the Sunday Times, writing about tech when the web was starting off. One charmer from the US said he was going to get on the next plane and \'carve out my eyes with spoons\' over something I wrote about a program he liked. A teenage idiot sent me a bomb threat because he felt I\'d been rude to his iPod. They\'re a tiny but vociferous bunch of anonymous cowards. If you let them shut you up they\'ve won. \r\n\r\nI agree - Amazon needs to clean up the comment system. It\'s a joke.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189908576','',2897,0),(2901,8226,'Peter Labrow','','http://twitter.com/labrow','','2011-04-22 08:44:00','2011-04-22 08:44:00','Totally agree. My to-do list for today already has a \'10 things Amazon needs to fix with Kindle\' blog on it, which I\'ll be posting later - that\'s one of my points. The only way to ensure fair reviews is to enable just verified purchasers to review and add a better red flag system to AuthorCentral - at the moment authors can only respond with another comment, which can only make things worse. There\'s no reason that their systems shouldn\'t automatically flags reviews where the content is 95% the same, either.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189910274','',2895,0),(2902,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 08:47:00','2011-04-22 08:47:00','To be honest I suspect most of us who\'ve been around for a while stopped taking Amazon reviews seriously a while back. They\'re distracting, unrepresentative and often, let\'s be honest, somewhat partial to put it politely.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189910695','',2901,0),(2903,8226,'Jenna','s.chilman@yahoo.com','','','2011-04-22 09:07:00','2011-04-22 09:07:00','Thanks for standing up to these creeps on our behalf. I\'m a thin-skinned fiction author and, like most fiction authors, take bad reviews to heart, even from nutters with an agenda. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189913573','',2900,0),(2904,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 09:10:00','2011-04-22 09:10:00','You need to work on that thin skin.... thick ones are needed in this business all round. Especially when it comes to nutters with an agenda. If you let them get to you they really have won.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189914084','',2903,0),(2905,8226,'Jenna','s.chilman@yahoo.com','','','2011-04-22 10:45:00','2011-04-22 10:45:00','I haven\'t met a fiction author yet who doesn\'t have a thin skin, ignoring good &amp; bad alike is the only way you put yourself out there and everyone\'s entitled to.. etc etc. When it\'s a totally unfair comment it\'s hard not to dwell on it. Have complained to Amazon but see from your comment below this is only likely to produce more problems.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189929272','',2904,0),(2906,8226,'Jason','thejollyscribe@live.com','','','2011-04-22 11:02:00','2011-04-22 11:02:00','I have tried to post book reviews on Amazon, but they say I have to buy the book first.  How did he get around this rule?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189937309','',0,0),(2907,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 11:04:00','2011-04-22 11:04:00','I\'ve no idea - are you an Amazon user? Were you logged in? I think you have to have an Amazon account.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189938107','',2906,0),(2908,8192,'Rebecca from NZ','rebecca@erlewein.net','http://www.japanese-acupuncture.co.nz','','2011-04-22 12:21:00','2011-04-22 12:21:00','Congratulations to getting your book published that way!\nHowever, the German publisher \"Reclam\" has been publishing unabridged literature in a postcard-sized softback format since the mid-1800s. So, apart from printing the lines the other way round, the Dwarsligger isn\'t exactly a print revolution...',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189972049','',0,0),(2909,8192,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 13:26:00','2011-04-22 13:26:00','Ahh.... new to me. I gather we have some on the way to the UK too.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):189993360','',2908,0),(2910,8226,'David Robinson','dwrob96@gmail.com','','','2011-04-22 16:26:00','2011-04-22 16:26:00','Appreciate your feelings, David. In answer to Jason, apparently if you have every bought anything from Amazon and have an account, you can \"review\" any book whether you\'ve bought it or not. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):190075922','',0,0),(2911,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-22 16:27:00','2011-04-22 16:27:00','That was the way I read it too... not exactly a failsafe system.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):190076349','',2910,0),(2912,8151,'Publishing Houses Embracing E-Books&#8230; What Does This Mean for Indie&#8217;s and Self Publishers? | Fantasy Book Review','','http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/blog/2011/04/23/publishing-houses-embracing-e-books-what-does-this-mean-for-indies-and-self-publishers/','213.171.218.195','2011-04-23 15:47:10','2011-04-23 14:47:10','[...] a reasonable size share of the market? David Hewson has written an interesting article about the Sustainability of Self Publishing E-Books which I think does a great job at highlighting the pro&#8217;s and con&#8217;s of the current [...]',0,'1','The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- WordPress/3.1.1','pingback',0,0),(2913,8163,'Scott Perkins','','http://twitter.com/Pages2Type','','2011-04-23 18:13:00','2011-04-23 18:13:00','Oh my God, that is a mess, isn\'t it?  With planning like that, Napoleon would have won.\n\nAnd that illustrates handily the thing I really don\'t get. I see mindmapping mentioned on writer\'s blogs as a tool for plotting a novel and I scratch my head.\n\nI get why mindmapping is useful for business where the most you\'re using it for is to create a marketing plan or a five-page report on why coffee futures are rising or whatever.  And it\'s wonderful for illustrating to a student how disjointed their paper on the Balkans will be and getting them back within the bounds of an assignment.\n\nBut for anything longer than that and certainly for anything multi-threaded like a novel you get a plate of spaghetti and the flowchart rapidly becomes useless.  To be certain, I think I would run the risk of an aneurysm if I tried to wrench my mind around that map of War &amp; Peace and I certainly wouldn\'t have a coherent novel at the end.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):190790245','',2872,0),(2918,8249,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','','2011-04-27 10:11:00','2011-04-27 10:11:00','A dispiriting story. The comments to David Flanagan\'s post are interesting, for a taste of the debate similar to those some of the comments to your posts have provided David. See \"Charles\", especially.\nThe textbook market is particularly threatened, I think. Textbooks can be extremely time-consuming to write and are usually (unlike Flanagan\'s) created in the spare-time of teachers and lecturers; the market is currently dominated by some very large publishers. I can\'t think of a financial reason why anyone would want to write a textbook today, unless they have a strong pre-existing brand. Somehow or another authors have to find ways of making their earning capacity less pirate-vulnerable. Current remedies, such as they are, self-evidently aren\'t working.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):192575573','',0,0),(2915,8110,'macscreencasts','','http://twitter.com/macscreencasts','','2011-04-25 14:36:00','2011-04-25 14:36:00','Nice post just came about to read it. Was in my Fav queue for quite a while. Shame on me. \nYou could even roundtrip the thing, sort of, by exporting an outline out of Scrivener. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):191496079','',0,0),(2916,8240,'The Anonymous Reviewer','rotary_star7@hotmail.com','','','2011-04-26 16:30:00','2011-04-26 16:30:00','I have read this one. This is truly a masterpiece. The plots within the story are well laid, energically written, and gives you every thing you need from a Suspense/Mystery. \n\nPersonally, I found the characters deeply attracting, especially Mina Gabriel. And the way Mr.Hewson decribes about Rome makes me want to pack up and head to the Cenci Trail, literally. \n\nMy full praise to the Fallen Angel and the author.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):192120628','',0,0),(2917,8249,'B.C. Young','','http://the-time-capsule.com/','','2011-04-26 18:20:00','2011-04-26 18:20:00','Very valid point. When you pour all you got into writing something, and it’s very important to you, to have someone steal it is heartbreaking. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):192174925','',0,0),(2919,8249,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-27 10:16:00','2011-04-27 10:16:00','Sigh.. I missed \'Charles\'. Have just replied to him on David Flanagan\'s site. Yes - I agree with you on textbooks... why will people bother?',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):192577264','',2918,0),(2921,8259,'Michaelhsnelgrove','michaelhsnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','','2011-04-29 08:18:00','2011-04-29 08:18:00','Head hurting again....\n',0,'trash','Disqus/1.1(2.61):194014013','',0,0),(2922,8259,'Gavin Nash','gav@zebrabounce.com','http://gnasher81.wordpress.com','','2011-04-29 09:48:00','2011-04-29 09:48:00','Good job, David, and nice to see that SSDs are coming down in price - remember when storage costs were expressed in £-per-MB? Do post a follow-up once you\'ve used it a bit, it\'ll be very interesting to know what it does to your battery life.\n\nCheers, Gavin.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):194028443','',0,0),(2923,8259,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-04-29 11:19:00','2011-04-29 11:19:00','Seems a good deal ans very fast. Don\'t use much on battery so I may not be\r\nbest judge',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):194044238','',2922,0),(2924,8282,'Bill Cameron','','http://twitter.com/bcmystery','','2011-04-30 12:22:00','2011-04-30 12:22:00','Wonderful. It\'s on my list!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):194719836','',0,0),(2925,8282,'Petra Nieuwpoort','','http://twitter.com/Petra_NR','','2011-05-01 10:52:00','2011-05-01 10:52:00','Couldn\'t agree more! I think it\'s the best Nic Costa so far and the idea of a travel guide popped in to my head a while ago too. So David, you know what to do next :)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195077997','',0,0),(2926,8282,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-05-01 10:53:00','2011-05-01 10:53:00','Thanks Petra... but I\'m afraid I don\'t have time to write travel books right now!',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195078115','',2925,0),(2927,8282,'Petra Nieuwpoort','','http://twitter.com/Petra_NR','','2011-05-01 11:00:00','2011-05-01 11:00:00','No hurry, David. As soon as you have the time, please do write the travel book. ',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195079077','',2926,0),(2928,8282,'Alan','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','','2011-05-01 21:26:00','2011-05-01 21:26:00','I posted this on Good Reads, so for completeness:\n\n \nThat\'s a great review. Haven\'t read The Fallen Angel yet, but it\'s on the list!\n\nI second the idea of the source book \"Costa\'s Roma\", an excellent suggestion. Please can you write it before I make a visit to Rome ;)',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195275698','',0,0),(2929,8226,'Etc','etc@etc.com','','','2011-05-01 22:00:00','2011-05-01 22:00:00','Sorry, eBooks are vastly overpriced. Assuring exasperated consumers that they aren\'t because physical books are so incredibly cheap to produce, and therefore not that different, won\'t eradicate the simple perception of value that has built up in readers\' minds over a couple of centuries. Physical books feel worth more. We in the publishing industry have actually benefited from that for an awfully long time. We still do. To complain about the same illogic which ensures healthy profits from overpriced Hbs/Pbs that are dirt cheap to produce is bizarre.\n\nMass market eBooks should never be more than £3-£4. Readers know this. In a few years time this will no longer be an issue, because sheer demand - and the success of reasonably priced books - will settle it.\n\nPiracy is genuinely evil, and scarcely a legitimate response, but I would point out that probably the majority of pirates are people who would never have purchased the material in the first place, so we shouldn\'t get our knickers in too much of a twist over them. Technical and professional books are perhaps a separate matter.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195285220','',0,0),(2930,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-05-02 04:42:00','2011-05-02 04:42:00','Most mass market ebooks are in the £3-£4 range already and readers who buy what they read know this already. Not sure why you haven\'t noticed.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195425223','',2929,0),(2931,8282,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-05-02 04:43:00','2011-05-02 04:43:00','Thank you Alan - you will be waiting a very long time to visit Rome if you want for any travel book on the place by me! Lots of great ones out there already.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195425641','',2928,0),(2932,8226,'Etc','etc@etc.com','','','2011-05-02 10:41:00','2011-05-02 10:41:00','Sorry, I meant new releases rather than just backlist, which I would say ought not to be more expensive than £2 (because many readers will have purchased them before, and may just want to pick them up again in this new format; and increased royalty rates mean that authors have nothing to lose from first-time buyers getting them so cheap at the same time). Most new releases are about 50p-80p cheaper in eBook than Hb - not enough of a discount. Mass market was also a stupid term to use (it was late) - mainstream is what I meant (i.e. commercial, non-technical books), and not eBook equivalents of \'mass market paperbacks\'. So, e.g. your latest is not in the £3-£4 range. And I think either it should be, or it should not be available as an eBook till it can be that kind of price - i.e. on paperback release. I wouldn\'t pirate instead of buying it at the steep price of £7.19 - I\'ve actually bought the Hb instead, a bargainous snip at 60p extra for a physical copy that can sit on my shelf.\n\nAnd I actually think that\'s what publishers want, in many ways: their pricing of new commercial eBooks is largely designed not to sell eBooks but to sell physical books. Which is a shame, because I think that physical books will never go away no matter what, and that the number of customers who end up not buying the book at all because they cannot get it quickly and reasonably priced as an eBook is significant and will only keep growing. (I think it\'s going to be more of a problem than those readers who would simply buy the cheaper eBook if it existed and cut the publisher\'s, but not the author\'s, profit slightly.) I doubt most will pirate; most will just buy someone else\'s book - or no book at all. Hence some self-pub successes, etc. That\'s more scary than piracy, IMO, since it is far more easily and instantly done.\n\n\n',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195663860','',2930,0),(2933,8226,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2011-05-02 10:44:00','2011-05-02 10:44:00','My latest is a hardback book and priced cheaper than the hardback equivalent. My latest mass market paperback is cheaper in ebook too and, as I said, like most current mass market paperbacks falls into the £3-4 range you\'re talking about.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195664400','',2932,0),(2934,8226,'Etc','etc@etc.com','','','2011-05-02 11:13:00','2011-05-02 11:13:00','Yep, but only by 60p. And whilst the RRP is £12.99, making £7.19 look a genuinely great deal, book RRP has been a dead letter for some time now - and publishers always price accordingly, taking into account the likely Amazon discount, Waterstones deal etc. They rarely expect to sell their books at full price, so a comparison with that figure isn\'t really meaningful.\n\nWhenever I weigh up buying an eBook or a physical book, the 30p-75p difference in price always has the same effect: either putting off a purchase or driving me to the \'better deal\' of the physical book. I think publishers are aware of the second phenomenon, but in denial over the former. I wish they weren\'t. Piracy is one of the problems it causes, but to a lesser extent than the undetectable, untraceable and unstoppable loss of sales to rival books and media.\n',0,'trash','Disqus/1.1(2.61):195672637','',2933,0);

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