Hrm....

[alanajoli]

I've been hoping for the last few years to work up the kind of portfolio needed to join the SFWA. They have recommended markets for publishing, particularly periodicals, but also publishers, and I've been trying to focus on submitting to the folks on their list.

So it always surprises me when I hear that the SFWA is making a fuss about e-books and the like (them being familiar with technology as part of sci-fi, right?), particularly when they're doing something like misusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to get non-fraudulent e-books removed from places like Scribd, a file sharing network. I do understand protecting copyright, but I don't understand what looks like blind fear of the platform/medium. (Doctorow's article gets into what actually happened quite a bit. It's just adding onto the Pixel-stained technopeasant wretches debacle in April.)

I'm still holding out hope that by the time I'm officially eligible to join, this sort of thing will be long in the past and the attitude will have swayed. (Based on the number of celebrants of the first International Pixel-stained Technopeasant Wretch day, I think it's possible.) In the meantime... hrm.

Comments

[stargatedragon.livejournal.com]

it's rather scary when you think that obviously whoever did this had *no* idea of what it would entail...

makes you wonder what they actually think is OUT there on them there fancy computer thingies, eh?

:D

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

I talked to another off-line friend about this, and it still seems strange to both of us that there are the science fiction folks who don't embrace the technology that's likely to get them to their readers. (Of all of the readers out there ready to read e-books, I've always imagined the SF fans to be at the front of that curve.)