L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Blog, page 2

The Unique, Experiential, Anecdotal "You"

The other day, when almost a foot of snow fell on Cedar City, I heard someone remark, "so much for global warming." Yet even this early in the year, a great number of climate scientists are predicting that 2010 will be among the warmest years on record. With normally comparatively balmy Washington, D.C., suffering its worst blizzards in decades, and Siberia colder than in half a century... how can this possibly be?

For the same reason that people insist that e-books of new publishers...

We Deserve "Cheap," Don't We?

One thing that the Macmillan-Amazon debacle highlighted is, to me, a very disturbing aspect of American society -- the idea that everyone has a right to everything cheaply, and that if a copy of something can be made inexpensively -- or for almost nothing -- then that's everyone's right. Thankfully, not everyone, and perhaps not even a majority of Americans believes that, but millions clearly do. The reaction of the ten-dollar-or-cheaper e-book demanders is merely the latest manifestation...