I'm assuming you meant "fiddle dee dee" here and as such, you are indicating your contempt for or feelings of lack of importance of the things that elf says in her post. Just because she doesn't agree with you doesn't mean that her thoughts aren't valuable. I find her to be a critical thinker who examines issues from all sides while forming her opinions.
I'm sorry if you felt attacked.
Nice little fauxpology there, Kristen. Since you chose the language "whiny little bitches" to describe your potential customers, it's hard for me to believe that you really are sorry. Perhaps you are sorry that someone called you on it.
I notice that you didn't address the following things said in this post and perhaps that is what you should have done instead of making your condescending reply:
Because, of course, poor people aren't real book lovers.
"A publisher I know explained that Kindle prices will be set to match paperback prices so more readers will buy the paperback"
Authors have *never* been paid for every reader. Have never been paid by word count, either, except for one-shot payments in the short-story market.
Anyone who tells readers, her potential customers, "Well, get over it, ya whiny little bitches," is not acting like someone I want to financially support.
I tell you though that if I walked into a store and was treated like you are treating your potential customers, I would not only walk out, I would tell everyone I know how I was treated.
I, like elf, bought my Sony ereader (does that even count in this argument) because I wanted an easier tool than my laptop for reading all of the free content that is out there. See, you aren't just competing with other professional authors for my reading dollar. You are competing with people who publish writing free to read on websites (easily convertible to epub). You are competing with pro-authors who offer up entire books as samples for free in order to entice me. You are competing with people who respect me as a reader and value me no matter how much I paid. You are competing with hundreds of books in the public domain. You are competing with people who have never called me a "whiny little bitch". And they are winning.
tl;dr This "whiny little bitch" has no problem finding things to read and in fact, has more to read than she can handle. She's not going to regret never reading your apparently out-of-print novel or book of short stories.
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I'm assuming you meant "fiddle dee dee" here and as such, you are indicating your contempt for or feelings of lack of importance of the things that
I'm sorry if you felt attacked.
Nice little fauxpology there, Kristen. Since you chose the language "whiny little bitches" to describe your potential customers, it's hard for me to believe that you really are sorry. Perhaps you are sorry that someone called you on it.
I notice that you didn't address the following things said in this post and perhaps that is what you should have done instead of making your condescending reply:
Because, of course, poor people aren't real book lovers.
"A publisher I know explained that Kindle prices will be set to match paperback prices so more readers will buy the paperback"
Authors have *never* been paid for every reader. Have never been paid by word count, either, except for one-shot payments in the short-story market.
Anyone who tells readers, her potential customers, "Well, get over it, ya whiny little bitches," is not acting like someone I want to financially support.
I tell you though that if I walked into a store and was treated like you are treating your potential customers, I would not only walk out, I would tell everyone I know how I was treated.
I, like
tl;dr This "whiny little bitch" has no problem finding things to read and in fact, has more to read than she can handle. She's not going to regret never reading your apparently out-of-print novel or book of short stories.