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12.02.09After #freeeday: “An artist’s enemy is obscurity, not piracy.”Yesterday I "contributed" two story collections to the Free-E-Day event, "the World's biggest celebration of Indie Culture." While I still got more traffic on this site from people looking for the answer to 35 Across in last weekend's L.A. Times crossword puzzle (it's Byzantium; maybe if you spent more time reading poetry and less time Googling crossword answers you'd know that...) than from people looking for free "Indie Culture," about a dozen visitors did download one or both collections. If you were one of those visitors, thank you very much! And if you missed the opportunity--well, for now I've ...
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09.10.09Amazon Author PageI've set up an Amazon author page in support of Pieces and Fifteen Other Stories, the collection I've made available on Kindle, Smashwords, and Lulu. For its initial outing, it will be pulling content from this blog, as well as my photoblog, my technology blog, and my Minneapolis and St. Paul blog. I've occasionally noted here some concerns about the dangers of the Amazon monoculture; I in no way eschew those concerns by setting up this page. The book economy is best served by many retailers, and many publishers, on many platforms; and open platforms (particularly the time-tested ink-on-paper ...
