The Box
A new short story just went live.
Funny how I feel bad charging 99 cents for something that took a little over a week to put together. Is it worth a dollar from the reader for the 10 minutes it takes to get through the story? I don’t know. I can only leave the guitar case open and keep strumming.
There have been a lot of stories about AI coming to life. But once we get past the initial event, and all the political and economic ramifications, what about all the little AIs that come after? How many strange and wonderful scenarios are there?
Asimov did this with robots. He went past the gee-wow creation and looked at the breakdown of the utilitarian machines. Anyway, here it is. Steal it somewhere if you can’t afford the cover price.
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Hi. I made 9 audiobooks, not studio quality as a poor Indie, and put them on a site called distribly.com (too small to be useful) They're based on my own books and cover several genre. As far as I'm aware, they have no DRM issues. They go for 5.95 NZ $ and one is free, Starlight Army. That's as cheap as I could put it out there. Just put Gary Weston in the search. Hope it is ok to out this on here.
I want to buy my books (as audiobooks), but there are 2 things that keep kicking me in the shins:
- I need the books in a standard, non-crippled, non-drm format (eg. audible doesn't work on Linux, nor in my car).
- Secondly, when I do find it on downpour.com (usually drm-free), I get "Item not available in your country".
It a self-defeating system. They add DRM so no-one will copy it, making me go get a copy.
They make it so I cant buy it because I'm not in the US, thus I go get a copy.
I really want to support the artists (writers as well as narrators). But buying DRM or using a proxy to buy from within the US, is just telling the distributors that their system works just fine.
I wish there was a site, eg. payforcopies.com, where I could go pay for one copy and nobody would care how I got it or what country I'm from. Heck, I might even make the site myself, if I thought the publishers wouldn’t sue me to hell for "circumventing copyright".
While this is all theoretical (and I admit no wrongdoing), I just noticed that you've added a "donate" button to your website, which is awesome!!
So if you were to receive $96.06 through that button, that could, in theory, add up to the audible versions of Wool (Minnie Goode version), Shift, Dust and Sand. Too bad audible doesn’t have a button like that.
Thanks for listening to my rant, now I’ll go check if Scalzi's blog has a magic button.