I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
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. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
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. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
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. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
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. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
Higher ebook prices don’t benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
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. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
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. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don’t own. Michael A. Stackpole Read Quote
