Michael A. Stackpole

“Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.”

“Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.”

“The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.”

“We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.”

“I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.”

“Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.”

“The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.”

“The day after we returned from Iorn Fist I woke up and I want either one of them anymore. Somewhere in between a girl I thought was long dead and a woman that was too blood thirsty for me to particularly like. But I thought about all that had happened the day before and decided that I liked being alive. So I wanted to than you for not letting me die.”

“Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.”

“Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.”

“I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.”

“I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.”

“Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.”

“Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.”

“I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.”

“A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.”

“In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.”

“Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.”

“Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.”

“Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.”