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Tax Write-Offs For Free (As In Speech) Work?
deuist writes "Several years ago I wrote a book called The Not So Short Introduction to Getting Into Medical School (PDF) and released it online under a Creative Commons license. I have been asked several times to publish the text so that I can make money off of it. The book has become quite famous among pre-med students and is now available from the Princeton Review as a free CD that is given to pre-medical interest groups. My question to the Slashdot community involves claiming this work as volunteering for tax purposes. Have any of you had any success with releasing free software and then writing off your time when April 15 rolls around?"
There are people who want a real paper book instead of a PDF. Why are you depriving them of the chance to read your book the way they want it? At the same time you would make some money, probably more than you could ever hope to save through tax deductions.
doesn't count when it is paid for.
Ever have dreams with jaggies? Delamination? Compression artifacts? Bad physics simulation? I used to get that when I was doing 3D animation. It's an intensity thing; if you do animation, you spend too much time looking at the same thing, very closely, in detail, at slow speed. So it goes into the material used to make up dreams.