As I reported higher than usual numbers for what is the now last post but one, all the readers have conspired not to read the last post at all! Not really, I'm sure - there must be a logical explanation...

Amazon's new discount price scheme has generally been welcomed by authors, who felt that the huge volume of 'free' material every day was distorting the market and - let's face it - robbing them of sales. It remains to be seen whether 'free' will eventually disappear but writers who hope to make money out of the e-books are increasingly likely to be disappointed, I fear. Those days didn't last long and are probably gone forever.

Periodically one has to wonder why one writes, then. My current explanation is that I enjoy it, despite the frustrations, and when even one person says "I liked that" it feels like a good thing to have done.