Shane Jiraiya Cummings' Grand Conversation

[elf]

Australian author Shane Jiraiya Cummings is having a Grand Experiment, releasing several DRM-free ebooks on various platforms, and is hosting a Grand Conversation on his blog, with guest posts from several authors and

editors, publishers, literary agents, booksellers, and readers from around the world.
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Experts such as Smashwords founder Mark Coker, Queensland Writers Centre and if:book Australia CEO Kate Eltham, Angry Robot editor Lee Harris, anthologist Ellen Datlow, bestselling authors Scott Nicholson and Joseph Nassise (and time permitting, Aussie self publishing success story Vicki Tyley), and many many others will be participating. Will you? Please help spread the word!

He's open to more participants, including from people who aren't "names" in the ebook world (like me, heh), and encourages people to read the conversation and spread the word. The conversation already has a few posts, and they're packed with crunchy meta (professional-flavored meta, so I feel like I should describe them by saying they "contain substantial well-considered information"). Definitely worth reading.

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

Very cool. I set up a feed so people can read the ongoing conversation as part of their reading page.

jiraiya_feed

ETA: Nevermind. His RSS feed has all the posts truncated so the feed's really not helpful. (Why do people do that? I get wanting the clicks for advertising but his blog doesn't seem to have advertising - unless one counts the links to his presence elsewhere on the web.)