Ignorant question

What's involved in turning a novel - something Disco-era, say - into an ebook?

Well, this was unexpected

Thoughts?

Stolen from Sean Eric Fagan

Guess the publisher! No googling!

Bailouts and ambitious plans for recovery have failed to rescue the United States’ crumbling economy. The president takes a desperate gamble and strikes a bargain with China to write off America’s debt. It seems a brilliant move, until the Supreme Court is destroyed by a cruise missile in a shocking attack and Manhattan is invaded. China has come to claim what’s theirs. With American captives executed daily in national broadcasts by the attackers, the government in disarray, and US military forces shattered into local militias, all seems lost. Deep in the heart of Texas the American spirit lives on. John David Drury, a young, untried, but highly qualified “four-star general” of a scrappy militia, along with Molly Spitz, a highly-ranked graduate of the Air Force Academy, prepares to lead a strike against New York City.

In the name of balance

Resnick gives his perspective (down in comments)

For the record, I have been to Africa 6 times on prolonged trips, I have won 4 Hugos for stories about Africa and have been nominated for 8 more, and my knowledge of the Kikuyu and Maasai peoples has been praised by Kenyan office holders. Are you suggesting that I -shouldn't- write about Africa, or perhaps that no right-thinking editor should buy them?

The horrifying thought that kept me up last night

(Actually it was the two rampaging cats and my fear Ibid would inadvertently either dislocate my knee or land claws first on my eye and burst it like a grape)

"What if there's an ebook of Poul Anderson's Avatar? What if someone pays me to read it?"

But surely with the dozens of other Andersons to reprint, many of them quite fine books, nobody would have - oh, crap.

LiveJournal's bold new plans

leaves at least one user wondering if the living will envy the dead.