Tuesday
Feb212012
How to Critique a Friend's Work
A WINNER HAS BEEN SELECTED!! A fittingly literary comic, as this is your last chance to win a signed copy of my book “Curse of the Masking-Tape Mummy.”
All you have to do is leave a comment on Monday's comic (How to Disagree Like Civilized Gentlemen). The winner will be selected at random on Thursday morning (Feb 23rd). Again, I will ask a question that you can, but are not obligated to, answer.
The question: How much would you pay for a digital, DRM-free version of one of my books?
Good luck, and thanks for helping to make this contest the success it has been!
February 21, 2012
Reader Comments (47)
I don't buy too many books, actually. I AM THE 99% (of the cheap bastards).
typo?
...the work [of?] my old nemesis
Wrong comic Kozz, he said Monday's.
On a different note: great comic! and do you mind if I steal Rick's idea?
In the bookstore where I work, we have Michael Crichton off in his own little space next to the Science Fiction. Occasionally, I will inform the more savvy customers that the name of that space is the "Anti-Science Fiction section."
Hunter S Thompson would definitely make the better Vampire. I'm pretty sure Douglas Adams is already a Unicorn or something...
I think Hunter S Thompson would make a great vampire. But Douglas Adams would make a funnier vampire.
I would totally read either book. But then I'm looking forward to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
I would pay around $10, maybe up to $15 if it was chock full o' extras. Always seems to be a greedy money grab to me when the e-book version is the same price as the print (hardcover!).
Hunter S. Thompson.
Clearly Hunter S.
Is there supposed to be a typo in Rick's book ("work OF my nemesis")? Because that's just [sic].
Actually, Crichton did write at least one mystery. "A Case of Need" in 1968.
two questions:
1. do you still sell infini tees
2. how much would cost?
ONE MEELION DOLLARS.
*Cocks eyebrow, raises pinky to mouth*
Sorry, scott.
I'd pay premium for the real book but i'm really not into digital copies of books/comics.
I'd say between pi and e dollars.
Vampire HST? Talk about "bat country"...
Hunter S. Thompson
I didn't realise that the "Oscar Wilde Mysteries" by Giles Brandreth had made it across the Atlantic.
Or is this idea more prevalent than first feared?
To be fair though, even before his 4 Oscar Wilde books, Mr Brandreth was already pretty famous and famously erudite.
Hunter S. Thompson would be the scariest vampire who ever lived.
On a related note, Lovecraft actually wrote a story about Harry Houdini that he claimed was a true tale he 'ghost wrote' for Houdini after his death.
Hunter S. Thompson would make the better vampire. Mostly because as we all know, Douglas Adams makes the better Norse god.
I think i'd pay about $5.00, more than that and I'd want to be able to flick through the book.
I've also gotta say that Hunter S Thompson would be the better Vampire, Douglas Adams I could see more as a Mummy.
I'm liking the ebook idea. Epub please. How does $4.99 strike you? $11.99 for the 3 book set as an enticement? Free roll of toilet paper (bumb tissue?) to the first 20 orders?
NGAAA!!!
I still prefer paper over e-book. Which is why I already have a well-thumbed, oddly-stained copy of "The Curse of the Masking-Tape Mummy" on my bedstead.
Kidding about the stains.
Oh, BTW, "William Shakespeare and Jane Austen in... Love's Heaving Bosom!"
There was at least one real-world musical example of Rick's idea: the EP 'U2', by Negativeland.
Negativeland seem to have claimed that it was some kind of avant-garde art statement.