It's past time to cut through this fucking buillshit.

[tzikeh]

I have stayed out of the OTW insanity since it began. I didn't even know how to begin to talk about it, and I didn't want to wade in while things were shaking out, and I didn't want to read things that were going to make me angry, because I knew it would just cause me impotent rage, since there was nothing I would be able to do.



I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE/DON'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OTW IF THEIR PHILOSOPHIES ARE IN DIRECT CONFLICT (bolded now for those who fail at reading comprehension and think I'm defending OTW, instead of what I'm actually doing, which is bitching about people who hide their identities so that they can say nasty things about OTW), but I am so done with people who are against the OTW with absolutely no facts to back up their opposition. They are the Teabagging Party when it comes to OTW: frothing at the mouth with blind hatred, but they have absolutely no fucking facts and they just believe whatever their mental, seething leaders say without bothering with critical thought, or fact-finding of their own.

In case anyone reading this thinks that I'm somehow part of the OTW "machine," let me be crystal clear. I have no part in OTW. I'm not on the board, I'm not a beta-tester, I'm not a coder, I'm not part of the PR department, I'm not anything at all when it comes to the project. But I am DONE with this fucking insane bullshit Teabagger-mentality ignorance that has spread through some sections of fandom that are just spoiling for a fight with the OTW, because they've heard from someone who knows someone who said something they didn't like.

I have fucking HAD IT.

Whiny, shitty fucks who bitch about the OTW, but create sock-puppet accounts to do it so no one who knows them will know it was *them*, can shove it up their own asses. Cowards. Bullies. Those of you who have a beef with the OTW and have created sock-puppet accounts just to write about it? Show your faces, you craven pieces of shit. How dare you hide so that nobody who knows you finds out what you think. Afraid of conflict with people you know? Coward. You want to dish it out while not having to own it. Put up or shut up.

Comments

[melina123.livejournal.com]

IMO, additional permission isn't needed -- it's common knowledge that people save stories onto their hard drives and/or print them. This is simply something an author has no control over once they post to Ao3, LJ, or anywhere else. Even if an author "opts out," they can't stop me from simply copying and pasting their story into my .html template and converting it for my Kindle (for which there are instructions on kindledfans and elsewhere), any more than they can stop me from printing, or saving to my hard drive. It seems to me such an opt-out could do more harm than good by creating a very false sense of security. I don't see that making conversion easy makes things different, as long as the end user understands they absolutely cannot repost the .mobi or .epub files elsewhere without the author's permission, any more than they can repost the story in html.

That aside, I would be happy to act as a tester for you for any Mobipocket files on whatever you end up doing. I have a template I use with some very simple css that formats stories for Kindle pretty nicely. I'm sure we could round up some other helpers at kindledfans as well.

[amalthia]

well I know this, but I swear I've seen authors ask people to not print their fics....and etc. So it does appear that some authors still try to control access to their fics even when it's futile if you plan on sharing it with anyone. Kind of reminds me of DRM. And yes reposting an author's work without permission should be a given.

Not having a Kindle myself I'm rather in the dark as to how the mobipocket files I'm creating at the Ebook Library actually look on the device. If you ever want to stop by and try out one of the newly posted fics that are mobi I'd appreciate it.

I hadn't heard of the community kindlefans! I'm heading right over there to check it out. :)