Manuscript on Kindle
Plus: That Hack Melville
"Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb." (*)
- Calvin Coolidge
Well, I've gotten another nice little early xmas present this morning – The Manuscript seems to be available for the Kindle, completing the matched set (or, I don't know – bifecta??).
Even weirder, there seems to be some tweeting activity around it.
And what I think is like, possibly, maybe a remotely respectable Amazon sales rank.
Weird. Getting way ahead of myself, maybe video (ebooks) will save the radio star here. Some after-the-fact ebook success would be just dandy by me. The trick, I suppose, is to not have the success so long after the fact that you die a penniless, forgotten failure – like that hack Herman Melville.
It's going around, actually.
The full quote, and it's worth knowing by heart, is: "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
