Program 39 (do a right click and a save as to download the file)

Show notes [show length 36:37]

1632 Minicon 1st time in Tulsa

It was in Mannington, WV for the last 5 years. Town was basis for 1632.

Alas nothing to do there.

time travel displacement common theme but first with whole community

SM Sterling came out with Islands in the Sea of Time around the same time.

book was planned as a standalone.

Eric detests the great man theory of history but it works well as a plot device

Oct 07 1634 Bavarian Crisis

Jan 08 2nd Ring of Fire anthology

Jim Baen’s Universe doing well but not profitable (as of July 2007)

electronic publishing

advantage overhead/distribution costs low

disadvantage print amounts to a billboard. invisible on Internet

has a very low opinion of DRM (digital rights management)

MIT study readers had a 30% greater comprehension codex (book) vs. scroll (web page)

print will still be better than e-reading for a while and has many advantages

most people are not geeks

submariners love ebooks.

on collaborations

working on sequel to Course of Empire with KD Wentworth.

storytelling has always been a collaborative enterprise and says he’s good at it.

memorialized Jim Baen

JB refused to go along with DRM

we discuss copyright law (latest developments suck) and orphaned works.

Links

Eric Flint http://www.ericflint.net/

1632 http://1632.org/

Baen’s Universe http://baens-universe.com/