I had fugu a couple times in Japan and it was never expensive. Once was at a fugu restaurant in Osaka -- they had a very large menu of fugu served various ways and while you could easily spend $100 or so on a meal, I was able to get an appetizer serving of raw fugu slices and a small personal grill to cook it on for about 1200 yen (like $12). Another time I bought a large plate of fugu sashimi at a department store in Shinjuku, it was about 1000 yen. I'm sure there are places in Japan to spend much more on fugu (or any other dish), but the idea that fugu is this expensive and difficult to find delicacy is not really correct anymore.
Try it, it's great stuff. Just keep your portions under 4 oz and you should be fine; an order of sushi or sashimi isn't going to be a problem for most people.
I know for a fact that one professor was getting a *lot* more than "standard" royalty rates.
There are certain authors who are getting a lot more too; that's something the author works out with the publisher. But there is no general standard that academic textbooks get higher royalties than trade paperbacks, and in fact most of them don't.
You also fail to explain why it needs to be their book or their friends book rather than one of the many that are already available for the subject and much cheaper.
Now why the hell would you think that is my responsibility to explain? Ask your professor. I don't even know what book you're talking about, or even what discipline.
However in some cases sure they don't get much. For example i get none at all for the chapters i wrote for a book.
Yep, me neither. Not that anyone buys the books I'm published in anyway, hehe... But articles in books rarely get paid at all -- the editors make a deal with the publisher, and anything else is expected to be negotiated between editors and authors. Next time you write an article in a collection like that, you can try to demand royalties when the article is accepted. Good luck with that... chances are, they'll find someone else to write an article. Most likely the best you can do is ask for a few extra copies of the book (and they might even say no to that).
The bottom line is, if you actually want to make money in academic writing, the first step is probably to become famous enough that you can set your own terms when you negotiate with publishers. Or, self-publish, and then you can keep all the profits rather than waiting for measly royalties. But then forget about using your work to get you tenure or prestige, even assuming anyone actually buys the book.
is that it's a laser Canon, so it makes prints and copies too! Nothing like taking out your enemies with laser clarity, high resolution, and extreme prejudice.
This is BS. Why, cus the price has a lot more to do with the professor getting a cut on *his* textbook (or his friends) when there are usually plenty of books that cover the topic just as well and are usually a lot cheaper.
And you think the authors of those other books don't get their cut? Academic texts do not pay authors any more than trade texts and often a lot less. Whatever greater revenue those textbooks generate is going to publishers, not authors. The reasons for that can be debated, but your claim here is nonsensical.
The report is that he actually said Canadians taste the best. Once again the liberal media distorts things to make him out to be some kind of white supremacist.
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I had fugu a couple times in Japan and it was never expensive. Once was at a fugu restaurant in Osaka -- they had a very large menu of fugu served various ways and while you could easily spend $100 or so on a meal, I was able to get an appetizer serving of raw fugu slices and a small personal grill to cook it on for about 1200 yen (like $12). Another time I bought a large plate of fugu sashimi at a department store in Shinjuku, it was about 1000 yen. I'm sure there are places in Japan to spend much more on fugu (or any other dish), but the idea that fugu is this expensive and difficult to find delicacy is not really correct anymore.
Try it, it's great stuff. Just keep your portions under 4 oz and you should be fine; an order of sushi or sashimi isn't going to be a problem for most people.
How many buttons will it have?
That's just what they want you to think...
Dear Apple:
Please also include a pony with the next release of the iphone software.
kthxbi,
iPhone owners
That's the irony! The exact opposite of what the guy said is true!
after all, Fox has Glenn Beck, who may have raped and killed a young girl in 1990!
I know for a fact that one professor was getting a *lot* more than "standard" royalty rates.
There are certain authors who are getting a lot more too; that's something the author works out with the publisher. But there is no general standard that academic textbooks get higher royalties than trade paperbacks, and in fact most of them don't.
You also fail to explain why it needs to be their book or their friends book rather than one of the many that are already available for the subject and much cheaper.
Now why the hell would you think that is my responsibility to explain? Ask your professor. I don't even know what book you're talking about, or even what discipline.
However in some cases sure they don't get much. For example i get none at all for the chapters i wrote for a book.
Yep, me neither. Not that anyone buys the books I'm published in anyway, hehe... But articles in books rarely get paid at all -- the editors make a deal with the publisher, and anything else is expected to be negotiated between editors and authors. Next time you write an article in a collection like that, you can try to demand royalties when the article is accepted. Good luck with that... chances are, they'll find someone else to write an article. Most likely the best you can do is ask for a few extra copies of the book (and they might even say no to that).
The bottom line is, if you actually want to make money in academic writing, the first step is probably to become famous enough that you can set your own terms when you negotiate with publishers. Or, self-publish, and then you can keep all the profits rather than waiting for measly royalties. But then forget about using your work to get you tenure or prestige, even assuming anyone actually buys the book.
a musket?
is that it's a laser Canon, so it makes prints and copies too! Nothing like taking out your enemies with laser clarity, high resolution, and extreme prejudice.
This is BS. Why, cus the price has a lot more to do with the professor getting a cut on *his* textbook (or his friends) when there are usually plenty of books that cover the topic just as well and are usually a lot cheaper.
And you think the authors of those other books don't get their cut? Academic texts do not pay authors any more than trade texts and often a lot less. Whatever greater revenue those textbooks generate is going to publishers, not authors. The reasons for that can be debated, but your claim here is nonsensical.
They argued that the site didn't really contain his name, which had been de facto changed to Glenn Bek after this episode.
The report is that he actually said Canadians taste the best. Once again the liberal media distorts things to make him out to be some kind of white supremacist.
I *still* don't know who he is.
Believe me, you're better off that way.
why did glenn leave CNN for fox he was better at CNN
Maybe because he hid the body of the girl somewhere at the CNN headquarters?
After all, according to Whoopi Goldberg, it wasn't "rape-rape."
And on top of that: If you love 'Murica as much as you say you do, then you should at least learn how she works.
Not only that, he ought to at least address the question of whether he raped and killed a young girl in 1990.
The question is talking about the Labour Party in England.
If you type in "why is" one of the first suggestions is "why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?"
I just poked my head in the living room. It's actually a pretty good question.
How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?
Now my curiosity is piqued. WHY can't I own a Canadian? Or at least lease one for a year?
For the same reason that I am extremely terrified of Chinese people.
The only reason I'm using facebook is to grow my zombie blog....
There was once a day you just didn't hear sentences like this.
Get to the point, man. What kind of left-handed vampire are they?
I think "Tom" knew about it but he didn't tell anybody. Who knows, though; that guy is friends with everyone.
Sosumi.