There's no way I'm going to spend $10 or $20 on an eBook when there's no guarantee I'll be able to take it off my shelf and re-read it twenty years from now, the way I do with many of my favorite books.
I just published "Chasing the Runner's High: My Sixty Million-Step Program". If you buy the eBook from my site, there is no copy protection. There's no point. All Digital Rights Managment schemes do is make it harder for honest readers to buy a book and enjoy it. DRM doesn't stop piracy. If a book is popular enough for it to matter, someone will break the copy protection and make the book available for free.
The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The license allows you to share unmodified copies of the book, as long as you don't use if for commercial purposes. If the book is read by thousands of people who got their copy from a friend, that's a win. I'm better off than if they never read it. Some of those people will end up buying paper copies, buying copies for their local libraries, or just paying what they think the eBook was worth.
You can also name your own price for eBook editions of my book when you buy from my site. I believe that if you can pay what you think a book is worth, you're more likely to buy. A sale for a little money is better than no sale at all (as long as you pay more than the 50 cents it costs to process your order).
Most people will be fair. The ones who aren't fair probably aren't going to pay anyhow.
Note: the eBook is available from other sites. Some people only shop from (for example) the Kindle store or the iBookstore, and so I need to be listed there. Those versions have fixed prices and may have DRM, but wherever it's possible, I've asked the vendor to sell it without DRM.
Try getting support from Google for services you pay for, like AdWords or Google Apps. Hell, try getting Google to apply the free AdWords credit to your account that they've been sending around lately like AOL floppies. If you have to deal with their "customer service", you'll soon have plenty of bad things to say about Google.
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Hey guys, no one expects this to be _useful_.
You're welcome.
I've made eBook editions of my book, "Chasing the Runner's High", available without ads, and you can name your own price.
Well, no ads except for this one....
Last I looked, you had to register with Apple to get the tools, and pay to gain access to the App Store. Not an open, free process.
Of course, I'm not really a programmer, and I'm too lazy to check my facts today.
The "middlemen" (the original publishers of the paper version of the books) in this case almost certainly provided editing services that improved the final product. I'm not saying they deserve payment for eBook rights they didn't buy because of that, but the value they add should not be dismissed altogether.
I worked at a company that made this list. We learned that we should rate the company highly - otherwise we had to waste time in meetings discussing how we could improve employee satisfaction.
I worked at a company that has made this list. We learned that we should rate the company highly - otherwise we had to waste time in meetings discussing how we could improve employee satisfaction.
Then maybe the problem is with your friends/family/etc... and their lack of respect for your privacy? But it's easier to blame Facebook for not providing an expensive system for free that manages the data freely provided to it in the exact fashion you want it managed so you can interact with any and everyone, but only how and when you want to.
Not to pick on you in particular. Just all the people like you.
The internet and the apps it supports make all kinds of data more readily available to anyone. Not just the data we want shared - all data. The RIAA wishes it wasn't so easy to share music. You wish it wasn't so easy to share your personal info. I wish Company X did a better job of protecting credit card numbers. Too bad - too late.
This is just the treatment the pharma industry has been looking for. It stops cancer but doesn't cure it, so you need to keep paying for expensive treatments for as long as you want to keep living.
If I was something that acts like a paper notebook, I can get one for 79 cents at Staples. There sure are some over-literal metaphors in this Courier video.
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Let me know when you start to see Puppeteers.
There's no way I'm going to spend $10 or $20 on an eBook when there's no guarantee I'll be able to take it off my shelf and re-read it twenty years from now, the way I do with many of my favorite books.
I just published "Chasing the Runner's High: My Sixty Million-Step Program". If you buy the eBook from my site, there is no copy protection. There's no point. All Digital Rights Managment schemes do is make it harder for honest readers to buy a book and enjoy it. DRM doesn't stop piracy. If a book is popular enough for it to matter, someone will break the copy protection and make the book available for free.
The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The license allows you to share unmodified copies of the book, as long as you don't use if for commercial purposes. If the book is read by thousands of people who got their copy from a friend, that's a win. I'm better off than if they never read it. Some of those people will end up buying paper copies, buying copies for their local libraries, or just paying what they think the eBook was worth.
You can also name your own price for eBook editions of my book when you buy from my site. I believe that if you can pay what you think a book is worth, you're more likely to buy. A sale for a little money is better than no sale at all (as long as you pay more than the 50 cents it costs to process your order).
Most people will be fair. The ones who aren't fair probably aren't going to pay anyhow.
Note: the eBook is available from other sites. Some people only shop from (for example) the Kindle store or the iBookstore, and so I need to be listed there. Those versions have fixed prices and may have DRM, but wherever it's possible, I've asked the vendor to sell it without DRM.
Try getting support from Google for services you pay for, like AdWords or Google Apps. Hell, try getting Google to apply the free AdWords credit to your account that they've been sending around lately like AOL floppies. If you have to deal with their "customer service", you'll soon have plenty of bad things to say about Google.
Hey guys, no one expects this to be _useful_. You're welcome.
Do you really think that the Senate,the same Senate that passed the Patriot Act and DMCA, won't happily pass ACTA too?
I've made eBook editions of my book, "Chasing the Runner's High", available without ads, and you can name your own price. Well, no ads except for this one....
Last I looked, you had to register with Apple to get the tools, and pay to gain access to the App Store. Not an open, free process. Of course, I'm not really a programmer, and I'm too lazy to check my facts today.
How many of you young'uns remember when the Beatles sued Apple?. Jobs learned his lesson early - the wrong lesson
If it's a small transition, it's not visionary.
The "middlemen" (the original publishers of the paper version of the books) in this case almost certainly provided editing services that improved the final product. I'm not saying they deserve payment for eBook rights they didn't buy because of that, but the value they add should not be dismissed altogether.
This isn't that new. The idea was used in a story I read in the last year, so the meme has had time to make it from the real world to fiction.
Now, can anyone remind me which story this was in? I've forgotten.
Slahsdot commentary on this story is like Fox News commentary on Democrats - "Fair and Balanced".
Yes! Pakistan should have free speech! Just like... uh... nobody?
The US needs Pakistan, to make what "free speech" remains here appear relatively free.
I worked at a company that made this list. We learned that we should rate the company highly - otherwise we had to waste time in meetings discussing how we could improve employee satisfaction.
Posted to wrong article :-(
I worked at a company that has made this list. We learned that we should rate the company highly - otherwise we had to waste time in meetings discussing how we could improve employee satisfaction.
Do the search, click on the link. Make BP pay for the ads.
The sun is late in it's cycle? It must be pregnant!
Does that mean it's really the "daughter"?
Because something like HyperCard on the iPad would be great, but not "insanely great."
Then maybe the problem is with your friends/family/etc... and their lack of respect for your privacy? But it's easier to blame Facebook for not providing an expensive system for free that manages the data freely provided to it in the exact fashion you want it managed so you can interact with any and everyone, but only how and when you want to.
Not to pick on you in particular. Just all the people like you.
The internet and the apps it supports make all kinds of data more readily available to anyone. Not just the data we want shared - all data. The RIAA wishes it wasn't so easy to share music. You wish it wasn't so easy to share your personal info. I wish Company X did a better job of protecting credit card numbers. Too bad - too late.
This is just the treatment the pharma industry has been looking for. It stops cancer but doesn't cure it, so you need to keep paying for expensive treatments for as long as you want to keep living.
If I was something that acts like a paper notebook, I can get one for 79 cents at Staples. There sure are some over-literal metaphors in this Courier video.
I look forward to the next new game that does not use any concepts that appeared in a previous game.
Tea Parties "...are intended for all different flavors of "conservatives" to come together to speak against things that we all oppose."
That's the problem. All opposition, no constructive ideas.