Wednesday, 4 June 2008

The nice thing about withdrawel of compositions

As a composer I can after the performance of a new piece if I'm not happy with it revise or withdraw it (the latter is also a great way of getting less bad music out there). For a novelist that is impossible. When the book has hit the marked he or she cannot change anything. I mean; he or she can if they want to get a lot of money out of their readers, get some more cash out of them. As the collectors they will need to buy all the new prints. But dear novelist. Be nice to us: Publish the books as ring binders. If you feel to change or expand your novel, just send out the new pages, and the reader just have to exchange the pages. The German Music Lexicon "Komponisten der Gegenwart" makes it that way, as my colleges have a tendency to die, you know. And when they die, there are two options: They get more ignored as they lived, or more famous. Most likely the latter.

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