Content Isn't King. If I Sent You

Where There's Life, There's Hope. Living People Can Change Things, Dead People Cannot.

We Don’t Care About What You Did Yesterday—we Care About What You’re Going To Do Tomorrow.

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.

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 Think That I Was Too Self-centered To Ever Develop Good Skills As A Peacemaker. In My Younger Days, I Assumed That It Was Because I Was Smarter Than Everyone Else, With No Patience For Explaining Things In Short Words For Mouthbreathers Who Just Didn't Get It.