Question on Beta-Readers

[Anei]

They analyze them so they know what ads to offer you. Not the same thing as selling. Nobody sees them.


Well, other than the NSA, of course.

Ah, ok. I hadn't really looked into it, it's good to know that distinction.

[Necromancer]

They analyze them so they know what ads to offer you. Not the same thing as selling. Nobody sees them.


Well, other than the NSA, of course.

The NSA has not the time nor the care to read your e-mail unless it contains a series of keywords. That said,

Any chance the NSA will publish my novel if I throw a bunch of terroristy keywords into the header?

This made me laugh out loud, would be hilarious if the first line of the e-mail was, "now that I have your attention"

[Paynesgrey]

No NDA's for me.  My betas are all friends, I pay them in beef jerky, kind words, and promises of a t-shirt if I ever sell enough books to have a few t-shirts made.  In some cases I have the pleasure of providing my own rudimentary attempts at being beta for their work.

For storage, I use laptop, email, and dropbox as well as the odd flash drive.  And my betas have copies in their emails should I ever have a total crapocalypse.