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Michael A. Stackpole [1957-0] American
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Michael Austin Stackpole is 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.

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Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. Happiness
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Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.
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Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.
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I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.
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If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.
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Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.
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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.
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Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.
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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.
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Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
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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.
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Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.
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Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.
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Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.
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Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.
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There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.
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It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
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The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
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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.
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I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.
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People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
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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.
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We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.
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In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.
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A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.
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