Abnormal Is So Common, It's Practically Normal.

There Are People Already Sharing Ebooks Out There, .. And They Do It Simply Because They Love Books. You Don't Buy A Second Copy Of A Book, Cut The Spine Off, Lay Each Page On A Scanner, Run That .tif Through An Ocr (optical Character Reader), Hand Edit The Resulting Output For Errors And Then Post It Online If You Don't Love The Book. It Can Up To 80 Hours To Turn A Printed Novel Into An Ebook. I Figure If Someone Out There Is Willing To Put In 80 Hours Of Work Promoting My Book, Then I'd Prefer They Do It In A Way That Gives A Better Return To Me.

I Fireballed Him As He Was Seeking Out Treasure After We Wiped Out A Band Of Orcs, Playing Rock-paper-scissors With Each Orc To Determine Who Would Prevail In Combat. This Is A Lot More Exciting Than It Sounds. It's Quite Civilized, And A Little Weird. You Go Running After Someone Through The Woods, Catch Up With Him, Bare Your Teeth, And Sit Down To Play A Little Roshambo.

The Idea That Bigger Haystacks Have More Needles In Them Is Dumb On Its Face

It Is Not Gender, Nor Age, Nor Race, But Your Ability To Work Hard At What You Love.

The Good News (for Writers) Is That This Means That Ebooks On Computers Are More Likely To Be An Enticement To Buy The Printed Book (which Is, After All, Cheap, Easily Had, And Easy To Use) Than A Substitute For It. You Can Probably Read Just Enough Of The Book Off The Screen To Realize You Want To Be Reading It On Paper.