The problem with King's model is that most writers are not S. King. King spews books and stories both good and bad, and when he gets writers block it lasts maybe five minutes. He has got an essentially infinite supply of product that he can throw into the pipe, and essentially get paid for the actual writing "performance".
For other writers who might produce a novel every few years, or a few stories a year (like me), this kind of model would never work. Fiction is not like music in that you don't want the same book "performed" eight times consequetively. For the time being, we are saved by the fact that paper books are still a superior product to e-books. When that changes, look out...
Cheers
JHVH1
`The shapes of things are dumb.'
-L. Wittgenstein
Sorry. I don't buy this. I can only speak from personal experience and the experience of Napster users I know personally, but I do still (occasionally)buy cds or use fairtunes to compensate artists if I've downloaded their stuff.
And I'm still saving money over pre Napster days because I can hear the tunes before I buy them and, usually, can discover that the "next big thing" is usually a piece of crap foisted on the public by the labels and reviewers. Usually, it makes more sense to download some old neil young tunes Ive got on vinyl anyway than buy something for one or two good tunes. Also, paying by fairtunes means you only have to shell out a couple of bucks because you only need recompense the artist not all the marketing, artwork, video expenses which the internet has made redundant anyway.
Note too that the list of major label artists that are looking at Napster as an opportunity is growing everyday.
Sorry, the BNL's are playing a cheap trick on their fans, or they're afraid to expose the music other than through the narrowly controlled, "official" outlets, which only let you hear one or two songs.
Cheers,
JHVH1
`The shapes of things are dumb.'
-L. Wittgenstein
If the BNL's want to sell their cd to me, put it on Napster and let me listen to the tunes straight up and if I like enough of them I will go out and buy it. If I don't I won't. Getting
spam, and knowing it came from the band itself, is
a piss off frankly.
Cheers,
JHVH1
`The shapes of things are dumb.'
-L. Wittgenstein
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The problem with King's model is that most writers are not S. King. King spews books and stories both good and bad, and when he gets writers block it lasts maybe five minutes. He has got an essentially infinite supply of product that he can throw into the pipe, and essentially get paid for the actual writing "performance". For other writers who might produce a novel every few years, or a few stories a year (like me), this kind of model would never work. Fiction is not like music in that you don't want the same book "performed" eight times consequetively. For the time being, we are saved by the fact that paper books are still a superior product to e-books. When that changes, look out... Cheers JHVH1 `The shapes of things are dumb.' -L. Wittgenstein
Sorry. I don't buy this. I can only speak from personal experience and the experience of Napster users I know personally, but I do still (occasionally)buy cds or use fairtunes to compensate artists if I've downloaded their stuff. And I'm still saving money over pre Napster days because I can hear the tunes before I buy them and, usually, can discover that the "next big thing" is usually a piece of crap foisted on the public by the labels and reviewers. Usually, it makes more sense to download some old neil young tunes Ive got on vinyl anyway than buy something for one or two good tunes. Also, paying by fairtunes means you only have to shell out a couple of bucks because you only need recompense the artist not all the marketing, artwork, video expenses which the internet has made redundant anyway. Note too that the list of major label artists that are looking at Napster as an opportunity is growing everyday. Sorry, the BNL's are playing a cheap trick on their fans, or they're afraid to expose the music other than through the narrowly controlled, "official" outlets, which only let you hear one or two songs. Cheers, JHVH1 `The shapes of things are dumb.' -L. Wittgenstein
If the BNL's want to sell their cd to me, put it on Napster and let me listen to the tunes straight up and if I like enough of them I will go out and buy it. If I don't I won't. Getting spam, and knowing it came from the band itself, is a piss off frankly. Cheers, JHVH1 `The shapes of things are dumb.' -L. Wittgenstein