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-- and
    thousands of people bought the book -- also good news. It turns out that, as
    near as anyone can tell, distributing free electronic versions of books is a
    great way to sell more of the paper editions, while simultaneously getting the
    book into the hands of readers who would otherwise not be exposed to my work.
    I still don't know how it is artists will earn a living in the age of the
    Internet, but I remain convinced that the way to find out is to do basic
    science: that is, to do stuff and observe the outcome. That's what I'm doing
    here. The thing to remember is that the very
worst
thing you can do to me as
    an artist is to not read my work -- to let it languish in obscurity and
    disappear from posterity. Most of the fiction I grew up on is out-of-print, and
    this is doubly true for the short stories. Losing a couple bucks to people who
    would have bought the book save for the availability of the free electronic text
    is no big deal, at least when compared to the horror that is being irrelevant
    and unread. And luckily for me, it appears that giving away the text for free
    gets me more paying customers than it loses me.
    You can find the canonical version of this file at
    http://craphound.com/place/download.php
    If you'd like to convert this file to some other format and distribute it, you
    have my permission, provided that:
You don't charge money for the distribution
You keep the entire text intact, including this notice, the license below, and
    the metadata at the end of the file
You don't use a file-format that has "DRM" or "copy-protection" or any other
    form of use-restriction turned on
    If you'd like, you can advertise the existence of your edition by posting a link
    to it at http://craphound.com/place/000012.php
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