Oh yeah, a few news updates.

Corrected version of Diaspora

Yesterday I got the corrected version of Diaspora up at Lulu. If you buy a copy from Lulu now, it’s the corrected version. The difference between it and the previous version is mostly superficial — typos and grammar, really. You can tell the difference between the old one and the new in a couple of ways: the copyright notice says 2010 as well as 2009, the softcover ISBN is included, the acknowledgements include a nod to our close-reading fans, and on page 220 we use the word “social” instead of “socail”. Sometime in the next month or so we’ll get a document up that summarizes the changes. Thanks so much to everyone that submitted errata. It was a pain in the ass.

Softcover Diaspora

I’m just waiting for my test copy of Diaspora in softcover. If it looks good, I’ll change it’s status to “for sale” and you can go get some. There are a few advantages to the softcover. It’s softer, obviously. It’s also slimmer, which means it fits in a mail slot which means it’s much cheaper to ship. It’s cheaper to buy (don’t know how cheap exactly but I think around $25 USD). It’s even cheaper if you buy 5 of them (whereas you need to buy 50 of the hardcover to get any discount). And it is better suited to selling through IPR, so we’ll be pursuing that. That is also good news to vendors. Oh it also prints faster, so going from click to get is only 5 days or so.

PDF of Diaspora

This seems very likely now. I won’t have concrete news until later. There will of course be bundles and all that good stuff. Watch this space.

Agency is now Crew

Who’d have thought there’d already be a game called Agency? Oh well, thanks to those that pointed it out to me.

–BMurray