Michael A. Stackpole
Michael A. Stackpole
Michael Austin Stackpoleis an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 November 1957
CountryUnited States of America
Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.
It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.
If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.
I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.
Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo
I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker
The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.