tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post6270910504399965970..comments2023-09-29T05:32:04.308-07:00Comments on StrangePegs: The A to Z of Fiction to Reality: the OptonAndrew Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-49101721317086087552012-05-11T16:18:58.625-07:002012-05-11T16:18:58.625-07:00Bonnie: I love time travelling comments!Bonnie: I love time travelling comments!Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-36737899195770151622012-05-11T12:02:56.186-07:002012-05-11T12:02:56.186-07:00I'm commenting back in time again... Just want...I'm commenting back in time again... Just wanted to let you know that I linked to this post from my recent post that this inspired.<br /><br />http://www.uberrandom.com/2012/05/musings-on-how-tech-is-changing-our.htmlBonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02408521023378422011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-59736848139731768252012-04-18T15:08:28.269-07:002012-04-18T15:08:28.269-07:00Donna: If we had a breakdown of that magnitude, I ...Donna: If we had a breakdown of that magnitude, I don't think people would be worrying much about books, anyway.<br /><br />Alex: Hmm... what book was important enough to you to buy the physical copy? Was it a copy of yours?<br /><br />Grumpy: Paper is cheap, relatively speaking, but it's nowhere near as cheap as it used to be. Besides, I'd rather pay the artist (writer) for his work rather than a publisher.<br /><br />Stephanie: Well, you know, he didn't really predict anything good. But that might depend upon your point-of-view.<br /><br />And, yeah, I agree about global disasters. <br /><br />Rusty: I agree! I am -not- for paying publishers extra money for an e-copy of something. If the author got the extra money, I'd be more willing.<br /><br />Briane: Wow... I'm speechless at your speechlessness. Glad you liked it :)<br /><br />S.L.: I use my computer as my e-reader, at the moment, and I do that because of some books that are only available in that format. I'm sure, at some point, I'll have to get one. My wife already wants one.<br /><br />TGE: yep!<br /><br />Michael: You know, other than the Jedi holocrons, there's never any indication that any kind of book even exists in Star Wars.<br /><br />L.G.: I don't think it would be that bad. Most information storage devices aren't actually dependent on power to keep storing the data.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-51706924321870878442012-04-17T16:33:51.493-07:002012-04-17T16:33:51.493-07:00You just hit on one of my big fears for the future...You just hit on one of my big fears for the future. I do fear losing a generation's work if the power ever goes out.Luanne G. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15762881276976395955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-55817038802197538852012-04-17T12:43:32.331-07:002012-04-17T12:43:32.331-07:00I bet George Lucas had the idea for electronic boo...I bet George Lucas had the idea for electronic books at about the same time as Lem. He just hadn't gotten around to doing his space opera for another decade.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-91675099344566407792012-04-17T12:31:42.704-07:002012-04-17T12:31:42.704-07:00I don't own an e-reader and have only read a f...I don't own an e-reader and have only read a few books in electronic format, but I think it's true that physical books will eventually fade out.<br /><br /><br />The Golden Eagle<br /><a href="http://thegoldeneagleblog.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">The Eagle's Aerial Perspective</a>Golden Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721520451194318436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-33665493734405840672012-04-17T11:48:49.733-07:002012-04-17T11:48:49.733-07:00I don't have one. And I might sound like a din...I don't have one. And I might sound like a dinosaur, but I refuse to have one. I very much appreciate the wonderful benefits of e-books, but I need printed ones. I write in my books - a leftover habit from my Lit Major college days - and I need to be able to underline and highlight to really synthesize what I read. I really hope we never lose print books all together. That would kill me. It already blows when a book I want to read ONLY comes as an e-book. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I think they're great. Just not for me.S. L. Hennessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06514651403542719387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-39290067266147902482012-04-17T09:02:48.371-07:002012-04-17T09:02:48.371-07:00This is easily the most fascinating thing I've...This is easily the most fascinating thing I've read all day. I'm speechless. That's hard to do.<br /><br />Bravo, Andrew. I loved this post.Brianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-29814996235579122362012-04-17T07:09:08.258-07:002012-04-17T07:09:08.258-07:00I have my option and I am using it daily - but I s...I have my option and I am using it daily - but I still read paper books too. I generally read traditional publishers in print and small press/indie authors via my ereader. Probably because most traditional publishers inflate ebook prices so much.Rusty Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887821877521181811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-46973294703373740352012-04-17T07:03:20.635-07:002012-04-17T07:03:20.635-07:00See, now I have to go and read Return from the Sta...See, now I have to go and read Return from the Stars to find out what else Lem predicted. I think you planned that :-) <br /><br />I'm all for e-books. My opinion is probably not the most popular one, but if civilization goes to heck in a hand-basket, somehow I don't think reading books will be the key to survival. They'll probably be used for kindling (no pun intended) before they'll be kept for whatever knowledge they might have. I just don't see people flipping through The Idiot's Guide to Building A Hut when day to day survival is high priority. <br /><br />In that situation, I think a person would be better off searching for someone who knows how to survive, and teaming up with them.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09247707812061900770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-14754695514036554922012-04-17T05:40:50.311-07:002012-04-17T05:40:50.311-07:00Someone on Facebook linked to an article where age...Someone on Facebook linked to an article where agent/author Nathan Bradsfield was saying how cheap paper is and so forth.<br /><br />Reading another article somewhere I could see why the publishers wanted the "agency" model or whatever they called it. They don't want Amazon to set the price point for eBooks at $9.99 because as paper books fall away, publishers would be stuck charging $10 for their books, which means much narrower profit margins for them vs. a $25 hardcover or $15 softcover. Because it is true that there are costs associated with the eBook that are the same as other platforms (author advance, promotion, design, etc.) but right now they can spread those costs among 2-3 formats. But if they eventually lose paper formats, then that means they have to lump all the costs into just the eBook, making less profit for them.<br /><br />As for storage, a problem the film industry has had with digital is that with some movies by the time they're finally sold and ready to be shown, the format has changed and no one can read the format the movie was created in. In terms of eBooks, if you save all the world's books as Kindle files now, 100 years from now no one will be able to read them. For that reason we should really keep paper editions of books somewhere so that we don't lose the collected knowledge of the world.PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-70940134162249195932012-04-17T04:48:27.494-07:002012-04-17T04:48:27.494-07:00Since acquiring my first iPad, I've only purch...Since acquiring my first iPad, I've only purchased one physical book, so I can see it happening.Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-38130853752424458502012-04-16T23:24:40.374-07:002012-04-16T23:24:40.374-07:00I see the ebooks as a potential problem for the fu...I see the ebooks as a potential problem for the future. If we ever have a major malfunction in our societies and lose power we will potentially have a bunch of people who, though literate, cannot find out how to do some basics - like soap making, raising crops, building houses, etc. because we have no books, nor Wikipedia to help us along. For although digital books are permanent in some respects, they are also very, um, nonpermanent in some respects.Donna Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13738281869266957726noreply@blogger.com