These threats to leave are pretty much crap. You may make less millions on PS3 than the other consoles, but you still make millions - so are you really going to walk away from that, or just pretend to and hope that Sony caves quickly?
I'm selling eBooks through Amazon and Fictionwise, and will move into POD books soon also through Amazon. There is no way to reach that audience other than by playing by their rules since I don't have a big mainstream publisher behind me. If I can sell for money through Google in the future I'll do it there as well. If Amazon and Google are making too much in the way of profits off of my work - compared to zero profits otherwise for me - then I will use what I do get from them to invest in their stock in order to share those profits.
Wake me when a better proven selling model for a small author arrives.
My girlfriend's mother is a school librarian, has been for decades. One day she was sorting through a stack of old books and came across a Bradbury book in which someone had scribbled across the title page in pen. I think it was actually as she was in the process of slamming her DISCARD stamp down on the book that she belatedly recognized the scribble as the author's signature.
1: Become a famous published author.
2: Sneak into libraries all across the country and secretly autograph all your books, thereby increasing their value.
3: Write a book afterwards about doing this.
4: GOTO 2
I respect Mr. Bradbury and his contributions to the literature of SF a lot, but...
His comments here are like JRR Tolkein famously proclaiming that his Lord of the Rings was "too good" to appear in paperback books. Fortunately Donald A. Wollheim proved him wrong, while making him rich and famous at the same time. I was introduced to LotR in paperback, and might not have found it otherwise.
The Internet isn't going away, and the future of eBooks is as assured as the future of music as individual tracks on iPod players.
Crab all you want about NVIDIA but they got the goods and the business strategy that put them on top.
Until, that is, millions of their mobile GPU chips keel over from heat death due to improper package bump and underfill construction.
And their single GPU chips are so big that they're impossible to manufacture cost effectively.
And that they need expensive PCB's because 512-bit wide memory is necessary when DDR3 has go up against ATI's more advanced DDR5 boards with half the required memory bus width for near equivalent memory performance.
And when two small, cheap, easy to manufacture chips beat out the biggest chip every time.
And when you're trying to get DirectX 11 running for the first time while making a radical architecture shift all while going to a new chip making process against a rival who is already shipping 40nm chips and has essentially had DX11 running in their past three generations of chips.
Yeah, I'm not sure Nvidia has nearly all the goods right at this moment.
No distribution was ever shown. The RIAA Plaintiffs even said that they wouldn't show it because it's impossible to show. THIS IS INSANE!!!
I, for one, cannot wait to see the entire music industry implode in favor of artists who record at home with the low-priced equipment available, and who market through cooperatives over the Internet. Let Big Music Die Now Please!
One current problem with gold is the lid at $980/oz. Every time the market touches that trigger someone big is coming in and sell sell selling until they drive it back to near $880. Don't know who, but they must have a pretty good pile of the stuff at the moment to have kept this up this long.
Since fusion was only "50 years away" when we started we where actually better off before we started to build that reactor
Congratulations, you have just proven that time travelers coming back from the future are clearly meddling in our affairs in an ongoing basis. I can only hope that it's a better future than Skynet - unless it's full of those hot Terminator babes!
This is a crap excuse on the part of the prosecutors to take away the right to privacy. It cannot be allowed to stand if privacy is it exist at all after this. It's not like any of them have outed the (stupid) jury member names.
Too bad you don't have individual rights in Britain. No wonder the people who wanted the government out of their lives crossed the pond and eventually founded America. This is an open invitation to break the laws regarding privacy without consequences, which just goes to show you how far Britain has really fallen. Even America isn't this bad yet.
so it plans to use the 'broadband tax' to pay for the final third by 2017
Yeah, right. By the end of this you can count on the broadband providers ensuring that the government and taxpayers pay for ALL of it -- while they continue to record large profits.
Let her pay a fine of a few hundreds bucks and fucking be done with it.
She's already fucked if she's found lible and only fined $1 because she would also be on the hook for all of the RIAA's extravagant legal expenses, which are in the hundreds of thousands by now.
The RIAA had its own troubles, almost losing all evidence from a particular witness when they added an additional log file to evidence without the defense being notified of it.
BFD! The RIAA got away with a tiny slap on their pinkie finger, nothing more.
Despite the fact that the RIAA admitted from the very beginning opening statement that they will not and cannot show any "distribution" to anyone but their own paid investigator; that having music files on your own computer of CD's you own isn't illegal regardless of how you got them; that the Defendant has the CD's of all the songs in question; that the copyright registrations being used in the trial are of questionable validity for this purpose, if not fraudulently obtained in the first place; that any "evidence" that they found on her hard drive was the result of an outrageous fishing expedition; and that there are no actual damages and that their statutory damages are unconstitutional -- this court, and the entire legal system in general, seems bound and determined to find some way to give the RIAA absolutely everything they want to prop up their buggy whip business model!
I'm buying my ebooks from another legitimate source which sells them to me in formats I can convert
Then buy them directly from eXcessica Publishing and other publishers who offer their titles on their own sites across a variety of standard and open formats.
NSFW Warning: eXcessica Publishing sells adult titles for mature readers.
Wrong. It has a high marginal cost in terms of its royalties to the publisher/author for each unit sold. In terms of costs the highest cost is the royalty back to the publisher. The next highest cost (percentage of the selling price) is Amazon's profit. The lowest cost is for storage and delivery that does not involve physical inventory or shipping charges beyond the wireless costs.
You have not been charged for this economics lesson.
Now, how many of you *actually* stuff another device in your laptop bag to read books?
You've got it wrong. With the Kindle reader s/w available on other platforms for free -- starting with 17M iPhone/iPod Touches, you don't even need the Kindle h/w to read Kindle books. Buy it if you want the screen, storage, and Whispernet connectivity. Use your other smartphone/laptop otherwise. Either way Amazon has you covered.
I'd prefer a library model, say $1 a day to read a book, then I could stop access and paying for it.
The trick here is for eBooks to be priced so cheaply that they're competitive with your desired rental model. How much does an eBook cost and how long does it take you to read it? The rule of thumb in video games is that a $60 game should give you 60 hours of playing (and replaying) enjoyment. At $1/hour that's a better bargain than a movie theater, and Netflix is a better bargain than that.
Unless you're a really fast reader who would spend more than $30/month on his books, eBooks are already competitive with your $1/day rental model.
I know! People would think you were crazy if you suggested selling a razor at below cost to encourage people to buy them and let you make money from the blades.
The difference that makes Kindle distinguishable from your example is that Amazon doesn't manufacture the blades. They are reselling other author's works and need to pay those authors a fair price. This is a significantly different business model from Gillette.
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These threats to leave are pretty much crap. You may make less millions on PS3 than the other consoles, but you still make millions - so are you really going to walk away from that, or just pretend to and hope that Sony caves quickly?
I'm selling eBooks through Amazon and Fictionwise, and will move into POD books soon also through Amazon. There is no way to reach that audience other than by playing by their rules since I don't have a big mainstream publisher behind me. If I can sell for money through Google in the future I'll do it there as well. If Amazon and Google are making too much in the way of profits off of my work - compared to zero profits otherwise for me - then I will use what I do get from them to invest in their stock in order to share those profits.
Wake me when a better proven selling model for a small author arrives.
1: Become a famous published author.
2: Sneak into libraries all across the country and secretly autograph all your books, thereby increasing their value.
3: Write a book afterwards about doing this.
4: GOTO 2
Bradbury a Luddite - who woulda thunk?
I respect Mr. Bradbury and his contributions to the literature of SF a lot, but...
His comments here are like JRR Tolkein famously proclaiming that his Lord of the Rings was "too good" to appear in paperback books. Fortunately Donald A. Wollheim proved him wrong, while making him rich and famous at the same time. I was introduced to LotR in paperback, and might not have found it otherwise.
The Internet isn't going away, and the future of eBooks is as assured as the future of music as individual tracks on iPod players.
Until, that is, millions of their mobile GPU chips keel over from heat death due to improper package bump and underfill construction.
And their single GPU chips are so big that they're impossible to manufacture cost effectively.
And that they need expensive PCB's because 512-bit wide memory is necessary when DDR3 has go up against ATI's more advanced DDR5 boards with half the required memory bus width for near equivalent memory performance.
And when two small, cheap, easy to manufacture chips beat out the biggest chip every time.
And when you're trying to get DirectX 11 running for the first time while making a radical architecture shift all while going to a new chip making process against a rival who is already shipping 40nm chips and has essentially had DX11 running in their past three generations of chips.
Yeah, I'm not sure Nvidia has nearly all the goods right at this moment.
You forgot one important thing: Larrabee.
1: Cock gun.
2: Aim at foot.
All they had to do was find 12 citizens just like themselves.
No distribution was ever shown. The RIAA Plaintiffs even said that they wouldn't show it because it's impossible to show. THIS IS INSANE!!!
I, for one, cannot wait to see the entire music industry implode in favor of artists who record at home with the low-priced equipment available, and who market through cooperatives over the Internet. Let Big Music Die Now Please!
One current problem with gold is the lid at $980/oz. Every time the market touches that trigger someone big is coming in and sell sell selling until they drive it back to near $880. Don't know who, but they must have a pretty good pile of the stuff at the moment to have kept this up this long.
So they'll get a good picture of the thief as he makes off with their gold. Yeah, that will stop them.
Congratulations, you have just proven that time travelers coming back from the future are clearly meddling in our affairs in an ongoing basis. I can only hope that it's a better future than Skynet - unless it's full of those hot Terminator babes!
That's like saying it's never going to happen at all. If we can't solve it in far less time than that, I don't think we'll ever solve it.
If this is the way newspapers act, then the death of them cannot come too soon.
This is a crap excuse on the part of the prosecutors to take away the right to privacy. It cannot be allowed to stand if privacy is it exist at all after this. It's not like any of them have outed the (stupid) jury member names.
Too bad you don't have individual rights in Britain. No wonder the people who wanted the government out of their lives crossed the pond and eventually founded America. This is an open invitation to break the laws regarding privacy without consequences, which just goes to show you how far Britain has really fallen. Even America isn't this bad yet.
Yeah, right. By the end of this you can count on the broadband providers ensuring that the government and taxpayers pay for ALL of it -- while they continue to record large profits.
She's already fucked if she's found lible and only fined $1 because she would also be on the hook for all of the RIAA's extravagant legal expenses, which are in the hundreds of thousands by now.
BFD! The RIAA got away with a tiny slap on their pinkie finger, nothing more.
Despite the fact that the RIAA admitted from the very beginning opening statement that they will not and cannot show any "distribution" to anyone but their own paid investigator; that having music files on your own computer of CD's you own isn't illegal regardless of how you got them; that the Defendant has the CD's of all the songs in question; that the copyright registrations being used in the trial are of questionable validity for this purpose, if not fraudulently obtained in the first place; that any "evidence" that they found on her hard drive was the result of an outrageous fishing expedition; and that there are no actual damages and that their statutory damages are unconstitutional -- this court, and the entire legal system in general, seems bound and determined to find some way to give the RIAA absolutely everything they want to prop up their buggy whip business model!
Then buy them directly from eXcessica Publishing and other publishers who offer their titles on their own sites across a variety of standard and open formats.
NSFW Warning: eXcessica Publishing sells adult titles for mature readers.
Wrong. It has a high marginal cost in terms of its royalties to the publisher/author for each unit sold. In terms of costs the highest cost is the royalty back to the publisher. The next highest cost (percentage of the selling price) is Amazon's profit. The lowest cost is for storage and delivery that does not involve physical inventory or shipping charges beyond the wireless costs.
You get what you pay for.
You've got it wrong. With the Kindle reader s/w available on other platforms for free -- starting with 17M iPhone/iPod Touches, you don't even need the Kindle h/w to read Kindle books. Buy it if you want the screen, storage, and Whispernet connectivity. Use your other smartphone/laptop otherwise. Either way Amazon has you covered.
The trick here is for eBooks to be priced so cheaply that they're competitive with your desired rental model. How much does an eBook cost and how long does it take you to read it? The rule of thumb in video games is that a $60 game should give you 60 hours of playing (and replaying) enjoyment. At $1/hour that's a better bargain than a movie theater, and Netflix is a better bargain than that.
Unless you're a really fast reader who would spend more than $30/month on his books, eBooks are already competitive with your $1/day rental model.
The difference that makes Kindle distinguishable from your example is that Amazon doesn't manufacture the blades. They are reselling other author's works and need to pay those authors a fair price. This is a significantly different business model from Gillette.