Cross-posted from my LiveJournal:
I have an idea.
God help me, I have an idea. Of course this comes to me as I'm cranking up to start writing a novel in 30 days, so I'm dumping it here for later in December.
There needs to be a physical version of The Long Range short stories. Paper's easy to manipulate, easy to pick up and take with you. Paper is familiar and comfortable. It's also expensive and ephemeral and it's hard to share without the possibility of losing it. Or the cat barfing on it.
It's also limited.
So --- what? What do I do instead of paper?
What if I put the stories, complete with the icon I've been using on the site, into a pdf, enclosed an MP3 and a quick video intro?
What if I dropped these on CD, stuck a site logo and the address on it and left them laying around? You know, for free to pick up and take home?
They're less expensive but more time-consuming. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I think this might be an idea worth pursuing. If I did twenty copies of each story, then that's twenty copies floating around for someone to print the story off if they like, or to upload under the Creative Commons license I've attached to each story.
It needs some more thought, but that's it in a nutshell. Tell me what you think, will you? Hell, I'd probably even send a few out of the country if there were some willing helpers.
We'll see.
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I like it. Personally, I would need to think it completely through, including how much time it would take to spend preparing it for distribution vs. other things I could do in that amount of time that may or may not be more productive. I would also ask, "will people actually pick up a cd that's basically just laying there?"
I have comments regarding this but I'm not sure if I should put them here or in the APA, where I saw this post originally. Arnett doesn't usually read the APA, as he's said, and old posts on blogs don't usually get visited. And putting my comments at both places isn't any better than putting them in either place since they can still go unnoticed. Arnett spreading his words in so many places has me confused. (And no, I don't even think he'll read this.)
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