Welcome to the inaugural #FediBookFair. #authors and #publishers are invited to post about their #books, offer signed copies, etc, using the #FediBookFair hashtag.
#Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find books to buy, and interesting authors to follow.
My gripe with audiobooks on Spotify is that I'm already paying for premium, I refuse to spend more money on buying books when I'm already paying to subscribe.
At least with Audible you get a credit for a free book a month as part of your subscription.
"By purporting to restrict an author’s abilities to #reuse their own work, “these [#publishing] agreements essentially turn faculty #authors into #readers…,” the Academic Senate chair concludes. The team that leads negotiations with scholarly #publishers…is now taking up the charge, making author #rights the next frontier in advocating for the UC research community."
I'm wondering if you have any #thoughts on the "#Web#Environment#Integrity" proposal by some #Google folks. I wrote a short thread about it, but would be interested in hearing your thoughts before reading it (if you do read it - I'm not demanding it 😀 ).
I have been gathering a few #SciFi books from the 1990's from different places like #Baen#Publishers. Some are a little "interesting", but a couple are rather good. So far.
@NeonBeal
My fave Baen is Star Soldiers by Andre Norton (a Baen free eBook). Because it includes Star Rangers (aka The Last Planet) which is my favorite Norton. Especially the prolog and the scene in the hall of chairs.
Earlier this year I wrote a non-fiction article about my thought processes in worldbuilding. I have been obsessed with a future where central governments are no more, and everything is decentralised like the fediverse. The article is part of an anthology on Afro centered futurisms, and here is a Publishers Weekly announcement of the book. Description in the alt text.