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Diane Duane
Personal blog · dianeduane.com/outofambitwritingculture
Diane Duane's personal blog at dianeduane.com covers writing and culture. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Diane Duane's posts about publishers inserting ads into novels, citing a Terry Pratchett example from a German edition and a Star Trek tie-in ad.
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The online home of New York Times bestselling author / screenwriter Diane Duane
What Hacker News says?
This happened to one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books[1] - he changed publishers after this. [1] https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2015/02/14/whats-rihan...
Comment linking /outofambit/2015/02/14/whats-rihannsu-soup/
on “Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications”Submitted Digital Mapmaking Resources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNote that this was always on a separate page, marked up with black bars, and introduced by “Zwischendurch” (“In the meantime”) [0]. It was quite obvious that it was an ad and not part of the main text. While it was slightly annoying to have an ad in the middle of the book, the attempted tie-ins into the respective story were also somewhat amusing. [0] e.g. (from a Star Trek novel): https://www.dianeduane.com/outofam…
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on “The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel”
