If one uses mostly Unix and runs just a few Windows programs because he likes them, he may find convenient to run all his staff on a single OS without need to reboot.
They don't care about claims. They just say the the OS runs MOST Windows programs. This means that if the end user cannot run any particular Windows program (or even 100 programs), they always can say that there are 2 (or 200) programs out there that run perfectly (Noty to mention that most programs in general are rather basic comparing to big packages most people use.)
Even if the content isn't worth thinking about, you anyway may pay for it. Otherwise, why people by thins which cost a little at all?
The problems with micropayments are:
1) very few people have a n account with, say, paypal
2) To use paypal is troublesome. (Just takes to much time for a thing which isn't woth thinking about)
3) Making one relatively big payment directly to the website in order to split it into many micropayments later works only for the sites where you want to make many micropayments. So, the site should have a lot of contenet. Note, that in such a case making a micropayment may be easy. Recall ordering an additional book from amazon.com
>People won't pay per chapter for serialized works, they'd rather get it all at once.
This is true. But they may pay if you send tree chapters from three different books at once. And give the choice to subscribe just for one book with significant dicounts for any extra book. If one finds this particular book (say one of the three) boring he will unsubscribe and save $$$ on buying the rest of the book.
>People won't pay to deal with copy-protection hassles, but they will pay to have it readily available electronically.
This is true as well. If the material is copy-protected, it is usully imposiible to print it. While it is much nicer to read a beautifully printed copy then watch the screen.
>People won't pay as much for the electronic form as for paper
This is true as well. But just for a book, not for a journal. And true only for copy-protected material. Once you can print it or send to a friend, electronic source is more benefitial then a paper copy.
Targeted advirtizing would help. Not everyone would be interested in this kind of stuff.
As for me, I would find boring to, saqy, come to a website twice a month to read a new story. I think there should be more material to attract people on a daily basis. May be, some news related to fantasy in jeneral. Once someone came to your website, you should try to keep their attention for a while. In case of such a site with original and interesting content it doesn't matter that you can find simi8lar news somewhere else. If one likes the site, he will come there again just to read a few paragraphs of new (even not original) material.
Good English is not what attracts people to a bloog. Have a look at slashdot. It is pretty much successful site. But how many posts do the creators add? Mostly the contenet is contributed by the visitors... So, the creator's English is not that important.
But what actually attracts people to the blog? First of all interesting and informative content. Not just well written. Hardly anyone will read long articles written in excellent language if they feal bored after three senteces.
On the other hand consider comics who act on the stage. Do many of them have good language. Probably, many. But hardly any of them apply their skills at speaking correctly as a part of their profession. Often pervert language is what makes people lough. So, sometimes ugly or curse language can in fact attract people to the material.
What iis important is crispy language and interesting things to write about, not the correctnes and beauty of the language.
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Even if you are right, the next version of MS Office won't run on Lindows anyway.
MS Linux could be a better idea!
Only if it runs advanced computer games designed for Windows.
But there is an alternative. NT runs a lot of POSIX programs...
If one uses mostly Unix and runs just a few Windows programs because he likes them, he may find convenient to run all his staff on a single OS without need to reboot.
They don't care about claims. They just say the the OS runs MOST Windows programs. This means that if the end user cannot run any particular Windows program (or even 100 programs), they always can say that there are 2 (or 200) programs out there that run perfectly (Noty to mention that most programs in general are rather basic comparing to big packages most people use.)
Even if the content isn't worth thinking about, you anyway may pay for it. Otherwise, why people by thins which cost a little at all? The problems with micropayments are: 1) very few people have a n account with, say, paypal 2) To use paypal is troublesome. (Just takes to much time for a thing which isn't woth thinking about) 3) Making one relatively big payment directly to the website in order to split it into many micropayments later works only for the sites where you want to make many micropayments. So, the site should have a lot of contenet. Note, that in such a case making a micropayment may be easy. Recall ordering an additional book from amazon.com
>People won't pay per chapter for serialized works, they'd rather get it all at once. This is true. But they may pay if you send tree chapters from three different books at once. And give the choice to subscribe just for one book with significant dicounts for any extra book. If one finds this particular book (say one of the three) boring he will unsubscribe and save $$$ on buying the rest of the book. >People won't pay to deal with copy-protection hassles, but they will pay to have it readily available electronically. This is true as well. If the material is copy-protected, it is usully imposiible to print it. While it is much nicer to read a beautifully printed copy then watch the screen. >People won't pay as much for the electronic form as for paper This is true as well. But just for a book, not for a journal. And true only for copy-protected material. Once you can print it or send to a friend, electronic source is more benefitial then a paper copy.
Targeted advirtizing would help. Not everyone would be interested in this kind of stuff. As for me, I would find boring to, saqy, come to a website twice a month to read a new story. I think there should be more material to attract people on a daily basis. May be, some news related to fantasy in jeneral. Once someone came to your website, you should try to keep their attention for a while. In case of such a site with original and interesting content it doesn't matter that you can find simi8lar news somewhere else. If one likes the site, he will come there again just to read a few paragraphs of new (even not original) material.
I think you explained slashdot very well. Just forgot to mention that articles in the newspaper are someone's letters as well.
Good English is not what attracts people to a bloog. Have a look at slashdot. It is pretty much successful site. But how many posts do the creators add? Mostly the contenet is contributed by the visitors... So, the creator's English is not that important.
But what actually attracts people to the blog? First of all interesting and informative content. Not just well written. Hardly anyone will read long articles written in excellent language if they feal bored after three senteces.
On the other hand consider comics who act on the stage. Do many of them have good language. Probably, many. But hardly any of them apply their skills at speaking correctly as a part of their profession. Often pervert language is what makes people lough. So, sometimes ugly or curse language can in fact attract people to the material.
What iis important is crispy language and interesting things to write about, not the correctnes and beauty of the language.