Well, LJ is being stupid (the last code push borked the site; way to go, guys) and I can only see comments when I'm either logged into Ben's journal (probably because it's a CSS style), or logged out completely, so that's awesome.
Anyway, yeah, it's interesting how the gatekeepers in SFF are trying to grip the genre tighter only to see it slipping through their fingers. Baen, I believe, was the first to really, really embrace the new e-reader tech, and they've done the Free Library for as long as I can remember.
It doesn't help that the New York publishing houses live in a sort of echo chamber of political correctness and seem to think that pushing check-box message fic onto us is the way to go, when in reality people who read for entertainment really do not like being preached at. And they wonder why they're bleeding readers.
Re: “The World of the 21st Century.”
Anyway, yeah, it's interesting how the gatekeepers in SFF are trying to grip the genre tighter only to see it slipping through their fingers. Baen, I believe, was the first to really, really embrace the new e-reader tech, and they've done the Free Library for as long as I can remember.
It doesn't help that the New York publishing houses live in a sort of echo chamber of political correctness and seem to think that pushing check-box message fic onto us is the way to go, when in reality people who read for entertainment really do not like being preached at. And they wonder why they're bleeding readers.