interview with Hugh Howey about ebooks

[Jack Boulware]

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/63653-four-questions-for-hugh-howey.html

very absolutist and pro-amazon as per usual. i also found this statement completely self serving:

"I don't care if I ever sell another book in my life (and my agent adores me when I say stuff like this)."

if this is truly how you feel, why don't you take down your website and stop talking about it?

FYI here's his progress chart on his website for all the books he's writing, simultaneously

PROGRESS METERS

Second Suicide Available Now!

8,231/8,231 words. 100% done! 
Glitch Available Now!

4,884/4,884 words. 100% done! 
Promises of London Available Now!

1,024/1,024 words. 100% done! 
Invariable

14,802/80,000 words. 17% done! 
In the Mountain

6639/ 6639 words. 100% done!
In the Woods

203 / 5000 words. 4% done! 
The Shell Collector

28,881 / 60000 words. 48% done!

[Deborah Krant]

Those progress meters are downright creepy!!  Who spends time figuring out stuff like that (17% done)  I guess its pretty obsessive compulsive...

Debby

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[Summer Laurie]

Well at 1-, 4-, and 8-thousand words, I wouldn't call them "books."

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I am currently reading...Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

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