Today's literary mob justice...
Jul. 15th, 2012 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessOverreach, dudes, overreach.
So there's this guy on Amazon who has been merrily uploading classic works of science fiction to the Kindle Store and selling them under his own name. (Amazon Prime members read them for free; all others pay #2.99.) Which, you know, might even have worked except for one teensy, tiny problem: the dude also chose to upload that little known work called A Stranger in a Strange Land (in an added delightful touch, he kept the same back copy blurb); another little known work now called The End of Childhood which I didn't even like when it was correctly called Childhood's End, and, oh yes...
How I Proposed to my Girlfriend, which some of you might remember a little better when it was published as How I Proposed to My Wife by John Scalzi, known to many of you as the current president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the author of a fairly popular blog.
I don't often join up on these internet pile-ups, but dude, really. Choose your targets better next time. You might have managed ripoffs of other authors, but Heinlein?
So there's this guy on Amazon who has been merrily uploading classic works of science fiction to the Kindle Store and selling them under his own name. (Amazon Prime members read them for free; all others pay #2.99.) Which, you know, might even have worked except for one teensy, tiny problem: the dude also chose to upload that little known work called A Stranger in a Strange Land (in an added delightful touch, he kept the same back copy blurb); another little known work now called The End of Childhood which I didn't even like when it was correctly called Childhood's End, and, oh yes...
How I Proposed to my Girlfriend, which some of you might remember a little better when it was published as How I Proposed to My Wife by John Scalzi, known to many of you as the current president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the author of a fairly popular blog.
I don't often join up on these internet pile-ups, but dude, really. Choose your targets better next time. You might have managed ripoffs of other authors, but Heinlein?
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