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1868316 No.1868316 [Reply] [Original]

Why do good authors go out of print?

If this cranky Jew right here wants to keep whining about people pirating his literature on the Internet, maybe he should get the vast amounts of his out of print, hard to find stuff of his republished in book form so we can, you know, actually BUY IT.

>> No.1868342

Well it seemed like you have a pretty reasonable point but otoh also kind of anti-semitic, not sure what to think tbqh

>> No.1868351

>>1868342
yeah honestly it shouldn't be hard to come off as less of a douche than harlan ellison in the act of bitching him out. and yet

>> No.1868357

i don't even know this guy and he looks like a Jew who is also cranky. don't see this being antisemitic tbqh

>> No.1868363

>writer known for short stories he wrote decades ago
>nobody really even gave a shit about his novels
>bitching about faggots pirating anything
>at this point I'd be glad anybody even wanted to read it

>> No.1868367

oh shit, that's how harlan ellison looks? i downloaded the "i have no mouth" video game with him doing the voices but 1) couldn't figure out how to get it to work and 2) could only hear the opening voice which was so irritating (it was him apparently) that i immediately lost the desire to bother figuring it out.

>> No.1868387

He is a classic Man Who Looks Like An Old Lesbian. If I had to guess the backstory of the person in that picture I'd figure it was a lady who revealed a knack for inking and moved up from the secretarial pool at Fawcett Comics in 1948

>> No.1868395

NOT REALLY 'LITERATURE' THOUGH

>> No.1868405

He's just old fashioned. I'd put him up there with my top five favorite writers of all time, but as a person? I might put him pretty low on THAT list. Still using a typewriter in this day and age is just silly.

Writers who DON'T whine about piracy: Cory Doctorow, John Scalzi, Charles Stross... in fact, many SF writers are pretty "with it" these days. I just pirated my own book on Sumo. Not too long ago I read about a famous SF writer (can't remember which one) who used pirated copies of his out-of-print work so that he could copy and paste them into ebooks... I think the article was on BoingBoing.

>> No.1868425

>>1868342

All of his closest friends call him a "cranky old Jew" in that documentary about him. deal with it

>> No.1868464

You can find all his major collections of short stories in Ebook formats. Also I heard that he sold his main typewriter not to long ago.

>> No.1868466

>>1868464

He still has like 30 typerwriters in reserve in his basement.

And a fridge full of ink ribbons that are no longer made.

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>>1868342
>>1868351
>>1868357

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>>1868466
>storing your ink ribbons in the fridge

>> No.1868835

>>1868609
nah actually i was the last post there and was kind of making fun of the other two i guess