On the other hand, to fan writers that I might call to your attention are Steven Silver and Joseph T. Major.

By the way, in terms of Long Form works, a friend of mine has told me that he really, really likes the audiobook for Zoe’s Tale. Says it’s one of his two favorite audiobooks in terms of performance, that the reader got the ’sarcastic teenager’ just perfect. I haven’t listened to it myself yet, but I thought I should pass that on.

“I figure if there is a preference among your readership for non-DRM electronic works, it’ll show up in the numbers from Webscriptions even more quickly than it would show up in a letter-writing campaign.”

The flaw in this argument is that Subterranean Press and Tor are not the same publishing house, and that sales of my DRM’d books on the Kindle dwarf the e-sales of Hate Mail and Coffee Shop (The OMW books are consistently in the Top 20 SF books on that machine) in any event.

re: Hectoring publishers rather than you – You made that point back in an earlier thread when I was saying you should put non-DRM as a condition for the electronic distribution rights in your publishing contracts. The key point you made there that finally convinced me was when you stated that numbers related to the electronic publishing rights were too small to be made into a deal-breaker over DRM on either side of the contract.

From my POV, even going to the publishers would have limited effect unless it became a trend among most readers of electronic editions. One letter is not going to change a non-DRM policy. Buying your non-DRM electronic works is this lazy man’s way out. I figure if there is a preference among your readership for non-DRM electronic works, it’ll show up in the numbers from Webscriptions even more quickly than it would show up in a letter-writing campaign.

So, sure, there’s a fanzine bias in there, but that’s kind of how I roll. But don’t take my word for it — hop on over to efanzines.com and read some of the great stuff that’s out there.

No, actually my Coffee Shop book was there first.

Also, as a general rule, it does no good to hector me about that stuff; you have to hector the book publishers, to whom I generally assign electronic distribution.