Good cause time, people.
The consistently interesting publisher Salt (full disclosure: home of one or two friends of Coalstalblog) is currently up against it money wise and as such has launched the Just one book appeal. Well, appeal's the wrong word, but you take my point. I apreciate that in this terribly exciting modern world in which we live in (to paraphrase McCartney) nobody does anything so gauche as to actually pay for media any more, but the upshot of that is that people go bust, and consistently interesting and boundary-pushing lists are lost, never to return.
It's tempting at this point to go off on a rant about how every snivelling downloader who cites the "outdated business model" of actually, y'know, paying for stuff is essentially constructing a flimsy rationalisation for the fact tht they're tight as a duck's arse, or, more pointedly, a thief but it's been a long day and I don't have the energy. Plus then I might get sidetracked into the whole paywall new media farrago and speaking as a man very firmly wedded to actual ink and paper I don't know that I could spend that long staring into the e-future void without having to have a bit of a sit down, and possibly a cup of tea.
So yes. Buy a book. It's good for the soul, anyhow.
(For the record, Coastalblog purchased Not everything remotely by Alan Halsey, never let it be said I don't put my money where my mouth is)
The consistently interesting publisher Salt (full disclosure: home of one or two friends of Coalstalblog) is currently up against it money wise and as such has launched the Just one book appeal. Well, appeal's the wrong word, but you take my point. I apreciate that in this terribly exciting modern world in which we live in (to paraphrase McCartney) nobody does anything so gauche as to actually pay for media any more, but the upshot of that is that people go bust, and consistently interesting and boundary-pushing lists are lost, never to return.
It's tempting at this point to go off on a rant about how every snivelling downloader who cites the "outdated business model" of actually, y'know, paying for stuff is essentially constructing a flimsy rationalisation for the fact tht they're tight as a duck's arse, or, more pointedly, a thief but it's been a long day and I don't have the energy. Plus then I might get sidetracked into the whole paywall new media farrago and speaking as a man very firmly wedded to actual ink and paper I don't know that I could spend that long staring into the e-future void without having to have a bit of a sit down, and possibly a cup of tea.
So yes. Buy a book. It's good for the soul, anyhow.
(For the record, Coastalblog purchased Not everything remotely by Alan Halsey, never let it be said I don't put my money where my mouth is)
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