Mainly, it made me ponder the interconnections of blogging and professional publishing in terms of rights. I wonder of they'll post the intermediate and final drafts or just the initial drafts? If it's final drafts will the content stay available once the book is published? The current plan, subject to change, is to put up Zipped files of the book files though they haven't said in what format. I know of one sf author who blogged a book and got the hoped-for publishing deal (at which point the book came off the blog) and one author who started blogging a book and was asked by his agent not to keep it on the blog so the agent could sell it. Absolutely no criticism of either writer; writing is my bread and butter! There's Cory Doctorow publishing Creative Commons licensed versions of his books, the blogs of Laura Cheney's lusty romance mystery that appeared after the publishers didn't reprint to book. It's interesting to see the blog/book/book/blog cycles...
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Mainly, it made me ponder the interconnections of blogging and professional publishing in terms of rights. I wonder of they'll post the intermediate and final drafts or just the initial drafts? If it's final drafts will the content stay available once the book is published? The current plan, subject to change, is to put up Zipped files of the book files though they haven't said in what format. I know of one sf author who blogged a book and got the hoped-for publishing deal (at which point the book came off the blog) and one author who started blogging a book and was asked by his agent not to keep it on the blog so the agent could sell it. Absolutely no criticism of either writer; writing is my bread and butter! There's Cory Doctorow publishing Creative Commons licensed versions of his books, the blogs of Laura Cheney's lusty romance mystery that appeared after the publishers didn't reprint to book. It's interesting to see the blog/book/book/blog cycles...
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