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As seen multiple places around my FLists, an author who thinks having a lot of twits... er, Twitter followers behind him means that he somehow ISN'T self published, and ISN'T subject to any other rules, including definitions of words in dictionaries and TOS agreements and basic courtesy as well.
This is what not to do.
This is what not to do.
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Date: 2012-05-21 07:20 pm (UTC)I'd say he ended up triggering Goodwin's law with the, oh noes my thread was moved (gee really, no deleted, merely moved?) the mods are Nazis!, response. Accept given the other quotes I suspect he has his own version of Goodwin's law that would show how he couldn't possibly have triggered it.
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Date: 2012-05-21 08:23 pm (UTC)(In a perfect world I'd have Bujold's knack for plot and characterization and Asimov's speed.)
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Date: 2012-05-22 06:27 am (UTC)Was the author in the wrong? Yes. He didn't fit the $60m and +10 books per year definition, so therefore he was 'small press'. However another curious trait people have is that in the face of being proven wrong, they will defend the incorrect viewpoint more and more energetically depending on how much they've put into it. So the author with 18 books (Quality notwithstanding) and having developed his own publishing company has put a lot into it, so he's putting a lot of effort into the argument. Which devolves to emotional terms with startling rapidity once facts are introduced to the equation. Which spectators call a meltdown (another emotive term), and the entire situation continues spiraling downwards.
I think what I've written there is a decent piece of insight, but I guarantee that at least half of the people who read it will think it's wrong. :P