You both strike me as shameless shit-eating hypocrites who couldn't do a lick of productive work if you both has a chain saw rammed up your butts and set on stun.
Get to work and quit dissing those that actually get some output out.
Nope, I don't care to read immature opinions...only carefully aged and considered opinions. Ones that show they've been tempered with something approaching a life.
This idea that no one should profit from his own efforts and use his own networks to sell goods made with his own hands and mind is dubioius at best.
I'm sure that most , if not all, of the people posting on these boards have incomes of some sort that allow them to have computers and internet connections as well as the luxury to read and reply. This includes students battening off their parents or other educational financial services be they scholarships or jobs.
Why shouldn't Mr. Katz be allowed and even encouraged to sell or promote his book through this and other venues. I am quite sure that if anyone else here was in the same situation they would do the same thing.
The anti-commericalism strain that stains the Net ignores the huge amounts of money that subsidizes the Net and those who pretend to work for nothing and live on nothing and nobody at the same time.
Look at it this way, if Katz's book is a hard cover and sells for $20.00 he gets about $3 per copy. If this site moves 1,000 copies of his book (which I really doubt that it could on its best day) he makes $3,000 .
This may seem like a lot to the hard-core unemployed that infest this board since they probably don't have two C notes to rub together, but it is -- for a person with mature obligations and responsibilities -- a trivial amount.
Humm, this comment along with the dozens in the same or viler tone only serve to confirm one's overwhelming impression of many of the self-inflating pimply faced posters here... to wit they are mostly mere children.
While one might wish they would grown up in age and deeper in wisdom, one simply rests in the comfortable knowledge that time will teach them, with a torch and a chain saw, what their parents and teachers so utterly failed to accomplish.
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You both strike me as shameless shit-eating hypocrites who couldn't do
a lick of productive work if you both has a chain saw rammed up your butts and set on stun.
Get to work and quit dissing those that actually get some output out.
Nope, I don't care to read immature opinions...only carefully aged
and considered opinions. Ones that show they've been tempered
with something approaching a life.
This idea that no one should profit from his own efforts and use
his own networks to sell goods made with his own hands and mind
is dubioius at best.
I'm sure that most , if not all, of the people posting on these boards
have incomes of some sort that allow them to have computers and
internet connections as well as the luxury to read and reply. This includes
students battening off their parents or other educational financial
services be they scholarships or jobs.
Why shouldn't Mr. Katz be allowed and even encouraged to sell
or promote his book through this and other venues. I am quite sure
that if anyone else here was in the same situation they would do the
same thing.
The anti-commericalism strain that stains the Net ignores the huge
amounts of money that subsidizes the Net and those who pretend
to work for nothing and live on nothing and nobody at the same time.
Look at it this way, if Katz's book is a hard cover and sells for $20.00
he gets about $3 per copy. If this site moves 1,000 copies of his book
(which I really doubt that it could on its best day) he makes $3,000 .
This may seem like a lot to the hard-core unemployed that infest this
board since they probably don't have two C notes to rub together,
but it is -- for a person with mature obligations and responsibilities --
a trivial amount.
Humm, this comment along with the dozens in the same or
viler tone only serve to confirm one's overwhelming impression
of many of the self-inflating pimply faced posters here... to wit
they are mostly mere children.
While one might wish they would grown up in age and deeper
in wisdom, one simply rests in the comfortable knowledge that
time will teach them, with a torch and a chain saw, what their
parents and teachers so utterly failed to accomplish.