For anyone who might be interested...
Apr. 23rd, 2007 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sally_mariaFor people who remember the conversation about Show of Hands's excellent song Roots, there was an interesting article about it and the group in the Independent last week.
For science fiction fans, a lot of writers were annoyed by the comments of Howard Hendrix, apparently a VP of the SFWA, that making their work available on the net for free made them "webscabs" and they were reducing the position of writer to that of Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch (a interesting turn of phrase, if nothing else). As a result they declared today International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. This post contains links to a lot of good stories from writers who've realised the power of the net to attract new readers.
For science fiction fans, a lot of writers were annoyed by the comments of Howard Hendrix, apparently a VP of the SFWA, that making their work available on the net for free made them "webscabs" and they were reducing the position of writer to that of Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch (a interesting turn of phrase, if nothing else). As a result they declared today International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. This post contains links to a lot of good stories from writers who've realised the power of the net to attract new readers.
