"Sells more ebooks" sounds like a volume metric. Would that include books they sell for $0.00?
How are the "3 times the price" of the paperback books selling?
Are your Amazon figures from Amazon?
I'd like to buy more ebooks, and I don't care about the DRM, but they need to work out loaning/gifting properly, and the average quality of the ebook publishing would need to get a lot higher. I often show people my Kindle and get incredibly lukewarm responses from people that I know read a lot.
Printing and warehousing are so efficient today they only add a small bit to the final price even for the cheapest titles.
This is a publisher's fallacy. Even if you accept that a mass market paperback only costs $1 to print, and warehousing and shipping are zero (they're not) it still wouldn't explain how the mass market paperback of Game of Thrones: A Feast For Crows is $5.49 and the kindle version is $11.93. And from what I'm told, the earlier ebook versions of those books were just scanned/OCR and are full of horrible typos.
It's the same reason Microsoft (say) charge $99 for Windows in the US and £99 for the same software in the UK, even though that's $161US; the market will bear it.
Except clearly the market isn't bearing it, they're telling the publishers to get stuffed in droves.
While the $8,000/month is no burden to Adams, it might be a quiet way of condemning the "morality" that supports this ghoulish siphoning of people's estates in general.
Fair enough. Though the difference in financial success between THL and ZDT is the epic level of hype generated for the later, and the support Sony was able to give it.
Admittedly, I haven't seen ZDT either, for much the same reasons.. but a film that opens on nearly 3000 screens is going to gross more than one that opens on 300.
Besides, ZDT benefited from "patriotic fervor". If it followed the usual 2:1 ratio of foreign to domestic grosses it would have made less than half of what it did; instead it has a ratio of 1:3. I'm sure there's a Hollywood accountant somewhere complaining that it lost $250 million in box office due to that:)
I'm not suggesting it was pre-mined, I'm suggesting that the exponential difficulty curve is a gold rush, and when you establish what constitutes gold you have a significant advantage over "the world".
seems an apt guess given the greatest trick he ever pulled was to convince the world that his hard to find digital apples were worth money (after picking all the low hanging fruit for himself first).
It doesn't matter if you have a problem with it. The law where I live states if you are stopped at a light you are still driving and subject to any distraction laws.
FTFY
I still think the funniest thing is in at least one jurisdiction I drive in, I'm literally not allowed to touch a mobile phone while in the drivers seat, excepting to hand it to a passenger unless parked off the roadway. Yet, it's perfectly legal to use the "hands free" function on my car stereo, which involves pressing: Home Phone Contacts Initial Letter of Contact Scroll to name Press Name Press Number Confirm I want to call that person
It would actually be far safer to use the phone to do the dialing, less steps, more familiar....
I won't even use PayPal and you're saying there's still people that will do cash transfers over the internet? Really? Or is that some straw grasping going on?
IMHO Obama's assertion that "you didn't build that" was IMHO a combination of economic illiteracy, stupidity, socialist idealism, and political "big lie" technique.
You make a rational, reasoned argument, then sign off with that straw man? I'm guessing you're not even taking it out of context like the GOP tried to.
The "you didn't build that" was *directly* related to the infrastructure of an entire society that enables advancement, and the idea that you contribute back to that society, in the form of jobs (like Apple doesn't), or taxes (like Apple doesn't).
I'm not saying Obama didn't fail miserably to express the sentiment clearly, but there's no "great man" that doesn't owe anything to anyone.
If you take out all the cities with crime problems the statistics are almost the same as another country? Wow. That's some fantastic analysis there, Mike.
Besides, those cities with strict gun control laws got them because of all the gun violence. Admittedly when you have prohibition combined with porous borders you will probably have more problems, but that doesn't even go close to making a case against a country wide prohibition. It's similar to the climate change argument that "we won't do anything until China does".
Also the unusually high suicide rate by guns never comes into question, because people killing themselves is seen as acceptible somehow, yet there's a lot more suicides per capita in the USA than in the UK too. None of those would be misclassified murders, since you know, murder stats and suicide stats are treated as equal levels of failure in police juristictions. Yeah, that passes the laugh test.
Less important to know their local unit, those idiots never come up in conversation and it's not like Rumplestiltskin where knowing it will get you something useful.
Just because they "voted for them" (or against them) doesn't matter, since they were probably just following a party how to vote card anyway, the same as the local unit just votes whatever the leader says. If they went around thinking about everything they'd never get anything done.
Yeah, I'm sure you were in all those countries to get a really good idea of the lifestyle too.
I lived in the US for 18+ months and yeah no, I'm certain I'd rather be in at least half the countries on your list before America again. People don't know how much the US sucks before they get there, and I'm a white guy, I can't imagine what a disappointment it must be for the rest of the 'masse'.
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"Sells more ebooks" sounds like a volume metric. Would that include books they sell for $0.00?
How are the "3 times the price" of the paperback books selling?
Are your Amazon figures from Amazon?
I'd like to buy more ebooks, and I don't care about the DRM, but they need to work out loaning/gifting properly, and the average quality of the ebook publishing would need to get a lot higher. I often show people my Kindle and get incredibly lukewarm responses from people that I know read a lot.
Printing and warehousing are so efficient today they only add a small bit to the final price even for the cheapest titles.
This is a publisher's fallacy. Even if you accept that a mass market paperback only costs $1 to print, and warehousing and shipping are zero (they're not) it still wouldn't explain how the mass market paperback of Game of Thrones: A Feast For Crows is $5.49 and the kindle version is $11.93. And from what I'm told, the earlier ebook versions of those books were just scanned/OCR and are full of horrible typos.
It's the same reason Microsoft (say) charge $99 for Windows in the US and £99 for the same software in the UK, even though that's $161US; the market will bear it.
Except clearly the market isn't bearing it, they're telling the publishers to get stuffed in droves.
While the $8,000/month is no burden to Adams, it might be a quiet way of condemning the "morality" that supports this ghoulish siphoning of people's estates in general.
The mugging that he needs to do because prices are artificially high and punishment is more emphasized than treatment?
I never hear this ridiculous straw man brought up in discussions on alcohol.
Fair enough. Though the difference in financial success between THL and ZDT is the epic level of hype generated for the later, and the support Sony was able to give it.
Admittedly, I haven't seen ZDT either, for much the same reasons.. but a film that opens on nearly 3000 screens is going to gross more than one that opens on 300.
Besides, ZDT benefited from "patriotic fervor". If it followed the usual 2:1 ratio of foreign to domestic grosses it would have made less than half of what it did; instead it has a ratio of 1:3. I'm sure there's a Hollywood accountant somewhere complaining that it lost $250 million in box office due to that :)
Did you just burn your straw man? ;)
I haven't seen it, should I torrent it?
It seemed to be over-hyped US-centric masturbatory fan fiction from what I saw in the press.
Can I pay you not to make another one? Like those grinning idiots with their violins at touristy restaurants.
I'm not suggesting it was pre-mined, I'm suggesting that the exponential difficulty curve is a gold rush, and when you establish what constitutes gold you have a significant advantage over "the world".
It reeks of both insider trading and tulips.
seems an apt guess given the greatest trick he ever pulled was to convince the world that his hard to find digital apples were worth money (after picking all the low hanging fruit for himself first).
80GB is not a large collection, that's just a few discographies and perhaps a flac album or two.
Why assume flac? Maybe it's just 2 uncompressed bluray concert videos and a 128kbit MP3 rip of an Alvin and the Chipmunks CD.
Douchebag.
At the roadside?
I've only ever heard of blood tests being administered by nursing staff and assessed by pathologists, in Australia.
Booze buses don't take DNA as saliva or blood ... and they sure as f#&k aren't run by contractors.
So you're saying from the inside it looks ok? You don't see how that could skew your perception at all then?
I agree, lots of shit you do that's legal annoys me too. Dipshit.
It doesn't matter if you have a problem with it. The law where I live states if you are stopped at a light you are still driving and subject to any distraction laws.
FTFY
I still think the funniest thing is in at least one jurisdiction I drive in, I'm literally not allowed to touch a mobile phone while in the drivers seat, excepting to hand it to a passenger unless parked off the roadway. Yet, it's perfectly legal to use the "hands free" function on my car stereo, which involves pressing:
Home
Phone
Contacts
Initial Letter of Contact
Scroll to name
Press Name
Press Number
Confirm I want to call that person
It would actually be far safer to use the phone to do the dialing, less steps, more familiar....
I won't even use PayPal and you're saying there's still people that will do cash transfers over the internet? Really? Or is that some straw grasping going on?
Says the ad agency shill?
That's hilarious.
Overstaying a visa is illegal, arriving in a country without a visa and claiming asylum is not.
That's not an argument, that's a philosophy.
IMHO Obama's assertion that "you didn't build that" was IMHO a combination of economic illiteracy, stupidity, socialist idealism, and political "big lie" technique.
You make a rational, reasoned argument, then sign off with that straw man? I'm guessing you're not even taking it out of context like the GOP tried to.
The "you didn't build that" was *directly* related to the infrastructure of an entire society that enables advancement, and the idea that you contribute back to that society, in the form of jobs (like Apple doesn't), or taxes (like Apple doesn't).
I'm not saying Obama didn't fail miserably to express the sentiment clearly, but there's no "great man" that doesn't owe anything to anyone.
Do we really have to Max?
Cause what you want is this: http://adventurelightingblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/indiancity_powerpole1.jpg
If you take out all the cities with crime problems the statistics are almost the same as another country? Wow. That's some fantastic analysis there, Mike.
Besides, those cities with strict gun control laws got them because of all the gun violence. Admittedly when you have prohibition combined with porous borders you will probably have more problems, but that doesn't even go close to making a case against a country wide prohibition. It's similar to the climate change argument that "we won't do anything until China does".
Also the unusually high suicide rate by guns never comes into question, because people killing themselves is seen as acceptible somehow, yet there's a lot more suicides per capita in the USA than in the UK too. None of those would be misclassified murders, since you know, murder stats and suicide stats are treated as equal levels of failure in police juristictions. Yeah, that passes the laugh test.
Less important to know their local unit, those idiots never come up in conversation and it's not like Rumplestiltskin where knowing it will get you something useful.
Just because they "voted for them" (or against them) doesn't matter, since they were probably just following a party how to vote card anyway, the same as the local unit just votes whatever the leader says. If they went around thinking about everything they'd never get anything done.
Yeah, I'm sure you were in all those countries to get a really good idea of the lifestyle too.
I lived in the US for 18+ months and yeah no, I'm certain I'd rather be in at least half the countries on your list before America again. People don't know how much the US sucks before they get there, and I'm a white guy, I can't imagine what a disappointment it must be for the rest of the 'masse'.