Quotes from Michael A. Stackpole

I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.

There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.

If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.

In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

A gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure. -Ganner Rhysode

Reason why scars form is to show that man can survive his own stupidity Anastasius Focht talking to Phelan Kell on the Dire Wolf