RWA and epubs

[erastes]

I’m sure most people have seen these two threads but in case you haven’t – and you have a couple of hours to spare and some blood to boil.

Deidre Knight from the Knight Agency tackles RWA’s stance on excluding epubs from RWA.

The President of the RWA’s rebuttal.

The comments in both threads are worth reading, particularly the latter post, where the only person who supported the President did so anonymously. head meet desk.

This is the best line of all imho – and seems to sum the RWA up for me:

“No organization can make everyone happy, but RWA goes on, no matter what.”

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

It does not surprise me. RWA is an industry dinosaur. The group refuses to change or adapt, applying print standards to e-books.

What doesn't change or adapt soon dies.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I read and commented on the first one, and that was enough.. I've got an Ebook to write. Some people just don't believe in evolution, but evolution doesn't care.

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

The trick is that the local chapters are apparently very good (or at least I've read many people over the last couple of years saying that their local chapter is the only reason they keep paying dues to National), but the local chapter can't secede from National without handing over the contents of its treasury. Or so I've read when this issue came up on some blog a while back.

So long as National has those golden handcuffs on all their members who love their local chapters, they really don't have to care what people think. The local chapters are good enough and valuable enough to keep enough people paying dues to RWA National, so National is happy. There you go.

I'm the sort of person to get pretty attached to an interest group I hang with, so it's probably just as well I never joined. [wry smile]

Angie

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

So clearly the thing to do is to spend all the money in the treasury and THEN secede.

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

LOL. Or, perhaps, 'Oh, snap!'