Carl Bussjaeger

Note to Publishers, Would-Be Publishers, Wanna-Be Writers: The complete, unlimited rights to my books are for sale. Publish and sell them, rewrite them, put your own name on them and sell them as your original work, make a movie, whatever; you can buy the rights and do anything you want with them forever. Royalty-free. They'd be yours.

Full Disclosure: You would also have to deal with the pirates selling copies of these books yourself.

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I've dropped the prices on all books – ebooks and paperbacks alike – to the minimums Amazon allows (I'd drop them further, but Amazon sets thresholds for listings; I am limiting the venues to drop them as it is).

Why: Ego-stroking.

I figure I'll keep the books available for those rare occasions when someone is in the mood for crappy hard SF.* But my finances make hosting free downloads on my personal site iffy in the short run, much less the long run (the only people who've made any money off these books are the thieving pirates... and I got hit with their tax bill on their profits – thanks, Amazon). And I don't much feel like going to the bother of seeking out and building a freebie hosting site just for this. The Amazon account is already there, so I'll use it. Besides, I can hardly provide POD paperbacks otherwise (and no, I don't feel like bothering with another POD provider either; it isn't worth the hassle, so don't suggest I go use whatever-the-hell-your-favorite-but-no-one-ever-heard-of-it-POD.com).

On the one hand, this sucks because I'm essentially giving Amazon a free product to peddle for their own profit with virtually zero royalities (literally zero for paperbacks, and about 30 cents for ebooks if Amazon ever actually transfers the funds). On the other hand, thanks to various P2P asswipes and thieves, I'm pretty much used to not getting paid for my work. On the gripping hand, why the hell did so many people want to rip off books that no one wants? (That one still baffles me. I guess there's some compulsion to grab anything that's "free" whether they actually want it or not. It's probably listed in the DSM.)

It's been a strange run. My most "successful" book (it almost made enough money to pay the rent... for one month... once... almost... before it hit the P2P networks) was one I never intended to write at all. Yet, oddly enough, I get asked by wanna-be writers for advice.

I tell them to find a published Name and suck up (and likely to actually suck, from things I hear about some authors) to them for patronage, or to give up the damned stupid idea before it's too late.

I wish I'd gotten that advice.

* And, sadly for me, most of them already bought the pirated editions that profited the Benners (NSP). By the time I got control of my own books, my infinitesimal market niche was saturated. You'd think that in a country, in which Gilligan's Island, pet rocks, Snooki, and Mitt Romney are easy sells, there'd be more demand for bad SF, too.

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