Where did you see that the iPod mini is "marketed as a ipod for the masses"? They're marketing it as an iPod, but smaller. It should be good for people who want a high capacity player for wearing while exercising, or who just like to have a smaller, lighter device.
Isn't there just something wrong about a dead tree account of how to set up a blog?
Blogs have to be one of the most natural uses of the web for not-too-techie folk. Easy-to-use tools to get your opinion out to the world pretty close to real-time. But you read a book to figure out how or why to do it?
Some other artists who are trying to find a way to operate outside of the major label system have set up United Musicians (http://www.unitedmusicians.com - although it's not up right now!).
It was set up by, among others, Michael Penn and Aimee Mann and provides marketing, distribution and management services for artists. It's based on a kind of co-op model, where smaller-selling artists can band together to get services they wouldn't be able to afford on their own.
Mann has just released her first album on her SuperEgo label with the support of United Musicians and she was able to put together a great package and get good distribution for it, but do it her own way.
And the reality is that these sorts of incidents may be more likely to convince people who aren't as clued in as your average Slashdot reader.
When this article (probably wrongly, I know) that this is a taste of what is to come, people will believe that. More of these sorts of incidents being reported like this might actually be what's needed to get some critical mass behind objecting to some of the daft DRM ideas that are out there.
An alternative opinion on the online sale of used books comes from author Neil Gaiman on his journal.
"If you buy one of my books (or are sent it to review) it's yours. You bought it (or were given it). You can sell it on. I don't have any more of a problem with Amazon listing the used copies than I do bookstores having used book sections. It's their store.
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.
As I said when I discussed this at length in the piece I put up on this journal, that was quoted in Wired, last month, books don't come with single-end-user licenses, and I think that's a good thing."
The problem with this book could be trying to get your PHB to actually read it. Acknowledge that the people that work for him/her are actually smarter than them? Much less "Einsteins"? I can't see it.
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Where did you see that the iPod mini is "marketed as a ipod for the masses"? They're marketing it as an iPod, but smaller. It should be good for people who want a high capacity player for wearing while exercising, or who just like to have a smaller, lighter device.
It was nice of you to give the Slashdot readership the most popular passwords on your site. Now all we need is a few usernames to go with them...
Blogs have to be one of the most natural uses of the web for not-too-techie folk. Easy-to-use tools to get your opinion out to the world pretty close to real-time. But you read a book to figure out how or why to do it?
It was set up by, among others, Michael Penn and Aimee Mann and provides marketing, distribution and management services for artists. It's based on a kind of co-op model, where smaller-selling artists can band together to get services they wouldn't be able to afford on their own.
Mann has just released her first album on her SuperEgo label with the support of United Musicians and she was able to put together a great package and get good distribution for it, but do it her own way.
If Ellison's boat has any incidents, will he still be able to claim that it's "Unbreakable"?
When this article (probably wrongly, I know) that this is a taste of what is to come, people will believe that. More of these sorts of incidents being reported like this might actually be what's needed to get some critical mass behind objecting to some of the daft DRM ideas that are out there.
Do you think it will change other people's similar behaviour?
Here's the original Janis Ian article and her follow-up. Both from http://www.janisian.com
"If you buy one of my books (or are sent it to review) it's yours. You bought it (or were given it). You can sell it on. I don't have any more of a problem with Amazon listing the used copies than I do bookstores having used book sections. It's their store.
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.
As I said when I discussed this at length in the piece I put up on this journal, that was quoted in Wired, last month, books don't come with single-end-user licenses, and I think that's a good thing."
Makes sense to me.
The problem with this book could be trying to get your PHB to actually read it. Acknowledge that the people that work for him/her are actually smarter than them? Much less "Einsteins"? I can't see it.