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Donations to Bakker
Wilshire:
I'll definitely be keeping a look out from now on.
Madness:
--- Quote from: Wilshire on March 12, 2014, 02:50:57 pm ---If someone received an ARC and then sold it, they probably shouldn't have received it in the first place.
--- End quote ---
+1
Madness:
So Wilshire convinced me to do taxes and I've got the first bit of money that I'm arbitrarily spending on debts/school/luxury living and I'm going to make another donation to Bakker. Usually, I like to couch that in terms of "when the rscottbakker.com went online" and "Christmases" but this time I'm frustrated by his seeming inability to make money from his creations (which subsequently sabotages my own selfish ambitions that we facilitate his ability to write more for us to read in the future). Light, Time, and Gravity aside, which just existed as perpetual free reading for a long time, Bakker has recently released a "draft" of Crash Space (which being published in a philosophy journal probably didn't garner him any compensation) and now The Dime Spared.
With this in mind, you can "add special instructions to the seller," which allows you to make a comment to the "donation" recipient. I propose that those who care to, make a small donation, as if you had purchased e-stories of Crash Space and The Dime Spared, perhaps simply to remind The Man Himself of making money from his writings, and "add special instructions to the seller" that say "Thanks for Crash Space and The Dime Spared" or some such.
Cheers all.
Wilshire:
Jeez, Madness, TL:DR
Everyone: Bakker has released now 2 atrocity tales, and 3 short stories, for free reading on his blog.
He seems to think no one would bother to buy his stuff, so instead of publishing his work, he gives it to us for free.
IMO, we should attempt to convince him otherwise. Click the link below to get to his donation page.
http://www.rscottbakker.com/piracy/
Comment something to the effect of "for Crash Space and The Dime Spared"
For me, its better to think of it as purchasing the two works, rather than a hand-out.
(current exchange rate: 1 USD = 1.3 CND)
Madness:
Thanks, Wilshire 8).
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