Comments on: Cover to Cover #327B: Playing with Tor.com http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/09/18/cover-to-cover-327b/ Conversations with the Creators of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Thrillers! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Dodds http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/09/18/cover-to-cover-327b/comment-page-1/#comment-466894 John Dodds Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:56:43 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/?p=2489#comment-466894 Discussions about technology and new ways or publishing books like the kisok model, are all very interesting. But what it fails to offer is the joys of browsing. What about discovering an author by accident? Where's the opportunity to read the blurb, flick have a glance at the opening sentences, smell the ink? I think plenty of authors would have just languished unknown if they hadn't been discovered that way, and people who found them told all their friends, their friends promoted them on forums and the like. Technology isn't the answer to everything. We can lose just as much as we gain, which is a real shame, in my view. Discussions about technology and new ways or publishing books like the kisok model, are all very interesting. But what it fails to offer is the joys of browsing. What about discovering an author by accident? Where’s the opportunity to read the blurb, flick have a glance at the opening sentences, smell the ink? I think plenty of authors would have just languished unknown if they hadn’t been discovered that way, and people who found them told all their friends, their friends promoted them on forums and the like.

Technology isn’t the answer to everything. We can lose just as much as we gain, which is a real shame, in my view.

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