Sometime-Montrealer, occasional yulblogger<\/a>, and fiction-writer Jon Evans<\/a> has an article in the Walrus<\/a>, called: Apocalypse Soon: The Future of Reading<\/a>, about books, ebooks, the Internet, and publishing. <\/p>\n

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\nA few years ago, my first novel was published. It did pretty well, won an award, was translated and sold around the world; the movie rights were even optioned. Now I want to put it online \u00e2\u20ac\u201d no charge, no hook, no catch. My motivation is simple: greed.<\/p>\n

My publishers are resolutely opposed to this idea. They fear it will \u00e2\u20ac\u0153devalue the brand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and set a dangerous precedent. They fear, intuitively but wrongly, that fewer people will buy a book that is also given away for free. But most of all, they fear the future \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and with good reason. Book publishing is a dinosaur industry, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big scary meteor on the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometime-Montrealer, occasional yulblogger, and fiction-writer Jon Evans has an article in the Walrus, called: Apocalypse Soon: The Future of Reading, about books, ebooks, the Internet,…<\/p>\n

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