tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post9190018960536610806..comments2024-02-20T15:12:28.660-08:00Comments on A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: My Writing Week: Issue 37 Year 4Graham Clementshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-54974992992042482232011-09-13T17:58:42.919-07:002011-09-13T17:58:42.919-07:00Anthony, Torchwood was on the BBCTV channel on Aus...Anthony, Torchwood was on the BBCTV channel on Austar/Foxtel.Graham Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-50849491147190979782011-09-12T22:43:18.524-07:002011-09-12T22:43:18.524-07:00Well done on getting your story done.
Will have t...Well done on getting your story done.<br /><br />Will have to look out for the new Torchwood. Where did you see it again?<br /><br />That's really bad that our authors are getting dumped. Rather than getting rid of them they should be offering more web services such as Print on Demand and get away from the traditional print runs, which are fraught with problems in today's market. They are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Those big old publishers are going to die off and as you say, the new guys will have the market.<br />Scary days for writers. Great ones for readers.Anthony J. Langfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027216695415849158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-89469104726834193992011-09-12T21:31:44.953-07:002011-09-12T21:31:44.953-07:00Hi Satima,
I try to support Australian bookstores...Hi Satima,<br /><br />I try to support Australian bookstores, but it is getting harder and harder to. <br /><br />We have a Collins bookstore in Wangaratta that had only four science fiction books in it last time I was in there (I wrote in a previous blog post that it was three, but I then discovered that the China Mieville novel was actually sci-fi). I bought one of the four books, so they then had three. <br /><br />I intend to still look in Collins for other genres besides science fiction. <br /><br />If I lived in a major city, like Melbourne, I would visit some of the specialist speculative fiction shops and buy there.<br /><br />I recently used the Book Depository for the first time to buy a book by Adrian Bedford which is not published in Australia.<br /><br />The less writers and readers support Australian retailers, the less those retailers will support Australian publishers and the less those publishers will support Australian writers. <br /><br />The question is, will Australian writers be able to get their books noticed among the millions of other books on overseas online book sites? I hope they do, but I think most Australian authors will struggle much more than they do now to get noticed. <br /><br />The market is going to change drastically in the next decade. I still reckon the biggest publishers will soon be Amazon, Google, Apple and possibly Facebook.Graham Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661117100748148070.post-17834158925783407772011-09-12T01:47:53.187-07:002011-09-12T01:47:53.187-07:00"This is something to consider before buying ..."This is something to consider before buying books online from the UK or US."<br /><br />OTOH, were it not for Amazon etc there would be nowhere to buy books now Borders and A&R hav gone. Dymocks hasn't many branches and the small local shops tend not to stock a lot of SF.<br /><br />I agree about Dr Who. I'm also sick of hearing about the Doctor dying!Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.com