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A further lesson to the RIAA and the MPAA
> **So, there's been a slight change of plans.** As you may remember (surely
> 2002 isn't too hazy yet), I serialized my most recent science fiction
> novel, _Old Man's War_, here in December, and this month I was going to put
> it up as shareware, a la _Agent to the Stars [1]_. Well, I won't be doing
> that. The reason for this is that, well, I kind of sold it. Instead of
> being available as shareware, _Old Man's War_ will be available either
> later this year or early next year in a hardcover edition from Tor Books
> [2], publishers of (among others) Orson Scott Card, Robert Jordan, Steven
> Brust and Teddy Roosevelt. Yes, really, Teddy Roosevelt. It's a reissue, I
> think, not one of those L. Ron Hubbard-eqsue “dictating from beyond the
> grave” situations.
>
Via InstaPundit [3], “John Scalzi's Whatever: Change of Plans [4]”
Further proof that making intellectual property available increases sales [5]
of said intellectual property and I certainly hope examples like this will
drive the point home (through the skull if we're lucky) of the RIAA
(Recording Industry Association of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture
Association of America).
Then again, perhaps we'll be lucky, they won't get a clue and implode
instead.
One can only hope.
[1]
http://www.scalzi.com/agent
[2]
http://www.tor.com/
[3]
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/006504.php#006504
[4]
http://scalzi.com/w030103.htm
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/04/21.1
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