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Publishers need to be reminded that copyrights only apply to mortal authors.

I’m hanging with Muslim YA authors st NCTE and the ALAN conferences (high/middle school teachers encouraging YA reading) and the author conversations here are intense. Chatting with Seema Yasmin and Zainab Jabek about the numbers and promotion structure is wild.

I always have a “New Book Day!” Post when I buy books:)

And if you're avoiding Amazon and want to support local bookstores and still buy online, check out bookshop.org!

We've been trying to get back into buying books instead of just buying everything on kindle.Recently bought Starter Villian. But man is it hard for me to reorient reading a physical book. For co text I am dyslexic and reading off a device is easier for me. We'll see if we can keep it up.

Where you buy and the medium matters.

What about buying a book and then donating it to the library.

No wonder Adrian Tchaikovsky puts out so much work! But seriously, that sucks.

I don't know how much of a cut you get from your digital sales. All I know is that after I read one of your books I turned around and (over time) bought seven more. At least. Only a handful of authors have got you beat (in my collection anyway...) and one of them's Terry Pratchett.

Enjoyed two of your books from my local library this year!

I could not agree more! Thank you for being a champion!

Why are your audiobooks Audible exclusives? They’re not available at libraries. Are you OK with this?

Just figured out that everything after The Last Colony is an Audible Exclusive, which gives more money to the author, but legally prevents any other platform, including libraries, from offering it for sale or rental at any price. This is not cool.

Also, if a book or audiobook comes up in your Libby app that the LAPL does not me, click the little “notify me” bell. Then Libby will let you know if LAPL gets the book AND LAPL is notified that you want the book. It’s very cool.

I put all of my research and work out for free while offering physical platform only for archival purposes. Have not received a single denomination of any currency for any of it and would prefer it that way. The proliferation of information is worth more to me than even food or housing.

Getting a library card was the best thing I did for myself this year. I'm actually reading more because I know I have a time limit! It might sound silly but just that little change has brought back the joy of books for me.

Exactly