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Nobel Prize winner and self-described social recluse Elfriede Jelinek thinks the internet is awesome and so will release her next book free on the web. I guess that Nobel purse kind of removes the need to worry about royalties.
By some measures, Elfriede Jelinek’s world is small. The reclusive Nobel literature laureate cloisters herself inside her homes in Vienna and Munich, Germany, and rarely ventures out in public.
But online, the Austrian writer — who suffers from what she has described as a “social phobia” — connects with ease to people around the world. Little wonder, then, that she chose to debut her latest novel on the Web rather than in bookstores.
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July 13th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Not to mention editors or (shudder) publicists.
July 15th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
free is good but one big electrical storm and your ability to “share” the work will be nulled. A bit elitist really. Not many of us writers can afford to freely share our work although with the trends in publishing it is a marvel when “literature” sees the printed page in a traditional book format.
So many good people who supported and got the word and your work out and got you the nobel praise now DO NOT MATTER to you . HM. I wonder if after this adventture….of internet freedom, publishers will think possibly twice about giving your words a book format. ?
I wonder how this will work
emoke