From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 21:13:02 MST
Robert J. Bradbury notes:
> Very very interesting. I (and many other net-literate people)
> anticipated the development of something like this -- but there
> should be a complement -- "nonfictionwise.com". This is to
> some extent the lanl.arXiv.org e-Print archive mirror
> (http://xyz.lanl.gov/) but this model doesn't provide for
> supporting the authors -- it would be really great if a
> commercial marketing site for "non-fictional" works could
> be developed.
In fact, F/wise are listing various nonfiction works (including THE SPIKE,
but in an e-dition released by the paper publisher, Tor, at about the same
price, which is absurd of Tor and self-defeating), although most of those
appear to be self-helpish or business oriented.
Robert's point about Fictionwise being a `commercial marketing site' speaks
to Lee Crocker's rant about the evils of not providing plain text that's
easily disseminated to all & sundry free of charge. When the rest of us can
come by Piclab and get our image processing done for nothing, and our free
food and drink at the market, I'll be all for that.
Damien Broderick
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