I can’t give a link to this directly. Explanation at end.
HARLAN ELLISON
– Saturday, January 23 2010 14:3:4IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!! please read & REPOST HERE DAILY!!
I’ve been reading your posts since Thursday, and I know you mean well, but if you TRULY wish to do me any financial good, stop going to buy my books for hefty prices, in crap condition, on Amazon and elsewhere…IF YOU CANNOT FIND THE TITLE YOU WANT IN A SIGNED MINT EDITION HERE AT THE ELLISON WEBDERLAND BOOKSTORE…WHICH MONEY COMES DIRECTLY TO ME AND SUSAN…
Then just go to E.READS!!! They have 33 of my books in handsome downloadable editions with a nifty Dillon cover! They are, in most cases, Preferred Texts. And I get a decent part of the minuscule price.
PLEASE!
Keep passing this on, or perhaps Rick can pull down the AOL banner, now long out of currency, and plug in the above.
Spreading ANY kind of word will be useful.
But this ongoing ignorance of how to PAY THE WRITER and not Google or Amazon or any other server doddering under the weight and onus of stealing from the primary creator…requires some shucking-off of the perpetual naivete and ignorance!
E.READS is my agent for books, after this board’s well-run (by Susan)booksearch as your first stop!
Whatever is convenient for you to do….but do stop wasting your money on my work as appropriated by smoothyguts entrepreneurs!
Quietly, I thank you.
Harlan Ellison
I sympathize with his desire, but his Internet presence is rather primitive. It’s all volunteer labor, as I understand it, so I can’t criticize. But others have pointed out on his message board (where the above is from, and which doesn’t link to individual posts at all), the lack of a direct transactional link at his site is an ongoing frustration to all the people — especially internationally — who want to Throw Money At Him.
Previously here:
The eBook Test 
Not your fault, but what is “e.reads”?? There is a company called e-reads at ereads.com, but e.reads?
H.E. isn’t doing himself any favours.
All I did was copy&paste. He meant this: http://www.ereads.com/
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