/lit/ - Literature

>>4974583
>The value of a book is determined by the manufacturing cost...

>>4966422
Lately, 10th of December.

Lifetime, probably some pulpy sci-fi like the Night's Dawn trilogy.

>>4974568

They wouldn't have any money at all if everyone else followed your example and stole their work.

ANd you think they 'probably'

>new models will be established to support new authors.


LAWL. Oh, what models would that be that lets you sleep? Begging?

That model sure ain't dependent on you contributing anything to either side of the equation.

>>4974548
>When an industry can provide a service at a reasonable price that is more convenient than piracy, I will give them my money.

The thief decides what 'price is fair'?

>But I'm not going to pay $15 for a single ~1 MB file.

So literature is defined by the number of ones and zeroes it consists of?

>the magazine itself is in color.

What part of the magazine is enhanced by color? It's easier to read on an ereader because it's just like paper. I only read the fiction and the S&M, anyway.

So the New Yorker is a magazine that is dependent on color printing and it's okay to steal a book because it's only a 1MB file.

I'm sure that when you become an adult some day, many years from now, you'll look back at what you are now and have a good chuckle.

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What kind of NEET neckbeard incel reads books under covers with a headlamp? Can you PLEASE post a photo of yourself for my beta cringe folder?

When I was 8 I had one and the batteries didn't last and it hurt my head after a while.

Fucking man up and get a paperwhite.

>>4973092
On an ebook, the author gets a lot of money, much more than a print copy. On AMZ, an author will get $7 on a $10 ebook.

You're clearly a stupid child, spoiled and full of resentment, to throw around pleb-tier OWS bullshit like "Oh no, those poor multimillion dollar publishing firms are really gonna be hurting."

If you knew anything about the business, you'd already know that many small publishers are hurting badly and are a lot less open to taking risks on new and experimental authors.

>>4972731

Really disappointed with all the plebs on here bragging about pirating books. In a way, I attribute this to their fear or learning the truth: as writers, they are shit. But by contributing to the destruction of an industry, they can instead blame their commercial failures on that destruction, thus never having to accept the truth about their own inabilities.

Anyway, here's a list of why the Kindle Paperwhite is to a printed book what a printed bound book was to a collection of onion-paper thirty-foot scrolls.

1) Easier to read than paper, particularly in low-light environments.
2) Cheaper subscriptions to literary magazines. NYer is about $6 a month for 4 issues.
3) All the lit magazines magically appear on it when you subscribe to them.
4) Less to carry around.
5) You lose/burn/destroy a book, it's gone forever. You lose your Kindle, get another and re-download everything again.
6) Get the book instantly.
7) New books cost less.
8) Many free books and you don't need to pay to print them out.
9) The author makes a lot more money when you buy the ebook. I earned $7 on my $10 Kindle edition, but like $5 on my $13 print edition.
10) Keeps all your notes backed up and archived in one place.
11) You can search all the texts at once.
12) If a particular passage has been highlighted a lot by other readers, you see that passage underlined with the number of other people who've highlighted it as well. (You can disable this).
13) Share your annotations with others via a Twitter/FB feed. I have a twitter feed call "Syn's Kindle" that just tweets links to my annotations
14) Free new books if you are a Prime subscriber.
15) Free books from your public library without even leaving your home.
16) Can lend/borrow books from other Kindle owners.
17) Allergies. Books collect dust/mites. My grandmother uses an ereader for this reason.
18) The built-in dictionary. Tap a word, get the definition.
19) Environmentally better (if it matters to you).
20) Save to Kindle widget on articles you see on your internet browser will let you send them to your Kindle for later reading.
21) Adjustable font size/face to make reading easier.
22) Turning pages is easier. Just a tap.
23) No more need for bookmarks; it remembers where you left off (and syncs it to other Kindle programs that are free: the PC/Mac version and the mobile/tablet versions)
24) All of your books AND MAGAZINES in a tiny, easy-to-carry device.
25) In a dark room, it kind of works like a flash-light (like your mobile screen).
26) Thousands of LEGAL free books available online.

Anyway, it's a really smart purchase. I don't think you'll regret a paperwhite. If you travel abroad, the 3G version may be worth the $$. Otherwise, go with the paperwhite. Worth the $120.

>>4972120
A small aside; 'grok' was incorporated as a native, command line executable in the Unix operating system.

>>4969349
disappointing

Though you are probably better off coming up with a metaphor than a single word that few people will understand.

>>4968618
The 'Greeks' of literary and philosophy fame are not of the same blood as the shit-tier Europeans who now populate that anus of Europe .

>>4957969
I only read short, so for that length, George Saunders.

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>>4961799

Wait. Just wait a moment.

Bay was hired to make a few films premised on the bizarre idea that robot aliens from space would come to earth and transform into cars and trucks.

That's what he had to start with.

So given that, he did a dam fine job. The Island was also top rate considering the source material.

>>4961799
Have you seen the island?

A great film.

>>4961016
What a shit professor you had.

>>4957551
But you haven't offered up any actual evidence of what constitutes a lack of originality.

Go pick up "Tenth of December" (the collection) by George Saunders. What old stuff in a frilly dress is that?

>>4957460
That really isn't true. Not even a little bit. I don;t know what you're reading these days.

It could come down to your measure of originality. Example: yes, most novels are broken down into paragraphs, so they are all derivative....

Which is a really stupid and juvenile point. We really need to stop letting you troll us. You probably don't even have a degree, wear clothes you bought at a thrift shop, and drink that green tea piss they like down in South America. Fuck off to your communal farm and asian girlfriend.

But if you consider not what works have in common but what makes them different and fresh, then you will find refreshing and persistent originality.

>>4957425
how can you quantify that? What are you stuck reading to make you think this is the case? And upon what do you draw the authority to make such an assertion?

>>4956756
Especially Babylon.

>>4956527
Sometimes there is nothing to get.

>>4952681
Theist , believes in God.
Atheist , denies God exists.
Agnostic , unsure, open to either possibility.

Don't care, ....

What do you call that? Someone who doesn't care?

>>4953948
A couple hundred. An okay check from amz. Best part is people who I do not know who buy it and left a review, or asking someone who read it what their favorite story was. It's a collection of my lit fic.

the stories were just gathering dust so I decided to put them out. The next book will be much much better.

>>4942530
36.

Self published book out in Dec 2012, sold okay.

Next book I hope to get out next year, though with a real publisher. I also hopen to get published in a journal this year.

The new book is 70% done.

>>4943042
Wait, that's not from batman?

>>4926713
Lobotomy?

Otherwise, pretty hard to forget who you are now.