Slashdot comments should be perfect for testing the detectors. Assuming, of course, the detectors don't commit suicide from all "go kill yourself" comments.
You have it backwards. Who is going to apply these patches? Who is going to help businesses migrate off of old, unsupported versions of Windows (onto newer versions of Windows--let's be real here)?
How many Microsoft employees can I expect to show up at my location to apply all these patches?
So by your own admission, you make even less than I estimated.
I didn't pull the numbers out of my ass like you did. They're based on what I actually earned each month.
As those reviews pile up, your books get harder and harder to sell, too - that means that the more you "don't care" about your bad grammar, the harder it'll be to sell NEW books, as well as copies of old books.
Which is why I'm spending this year revamping my catalog with new cover art, revised texts and higher prices.
Assuming the dishonest piece of shit reports this income to the IRS, it's less than that, no?
I've been in business 10+ years. All my income has been reported to the IRS.
You wouldn't by any chance be the asshat who falsely accused me of threatening to shoot him? I still haven't heard from Governor Jerry Brown for that complaint.
The 47 recommendations include creating a board oversight committee, rewriting Uber's cultural values, reducing alcohol use at work events, and prohibiting intimate relationships between employees and their bosses.
Time to end being a startup and grow up into a Fortune 500 company. Everyone will attend sensitivity training until that happens.
Criticisms, plural. You wanted "aren't". You're the one who's ignorant of grade-school level knowledge.
If you're going to be a grammar nazi, your comments need more bite. It'll be more effective if your target actually cares about his comments on Slashdot (I don't).
The "average" fees Amazon charges is ~0.06 per unit sold, so let's say your book costs them 4 cents - substantially below the average.
Please stop pulling numbers out of your ass. Since I'm not a KDP Select member that requires giving Amazon exclusive rights to sell my ebooks online, my royalty rate is $0.35 per copy. Smashwords royalty rate is $0.54 per copy. About 90% of my sales come from Smashwords. That's ~$365 to date for this ebook (not including the $20 for first serial rights).
Yeah, I can see now why you're planning to retire on this revenue stream.
Let's say that sales stay consistent for the next 30 years until I retire. My short story ebook could earn $11,000 during that time. That's not bad considering that short stories were published (paid) once and never seen again as the reprint market have ceased to exist over the last 50 years. I got ~60 published short stories, another ~30 short stories circulating for submission, and I can easily write four 5,000-word stories per year. Let's say I have 200 short story ebooks by the time I retire in 30 years, and they averaged $11,000 in sales each, my total income by retirement could be $2M+.
You tell boring stories (I've grabbed samples of several of your books - they're ALL poorly editied, full of run-on sentences), which are completely unreadable by anybody who has an expectation of being entertained or informed by something they read.
That's funny. Most of my short story ebooks were previously published in anthologies, which were sold at Borders and Barnes & Noble. I used to grab a half-dozen different anthologies off the shelf to show off to my friends.
I remember it as being when they hit 16777216 (2^24) comments... but yeah, same idea here xD
That story referenced the earlier incident that I was thinking about with the 16-bit field in 2001.
Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) but neglected to change the index that handles parents.
Still sounds more useful than Trump's circle jerk Cabinet meetings where all the Cabinet members prostrate themselves and praise him like they are a bunch of North Koreans seeing Kim Jong Un
The same group of people who wanted a tank-and-missile display at the inauguration like they do in Russia and North Korea.
I've read Stephen King, and you sir, are no Stephen King.
You read his short stories as they were originally published in the titty magazines? Or did you read them in the short story collection books? Stephen King is well known for re-editing his short stories a dozen times for the reprint market before they're published in "final" book form. He even revised the first four volumes of The Dark Tower to fix all the plot holes he introduced over the decades and later included himself as a character in volumes five and six. Heck, he might even revise himself out of volumes five and six in the future.
Although he's famous for making cameos in movies and TV miniseries based on his novels, King had second thoughts after including himself as a character in the series. The author mentioned in an interview with fellow scribe Neil Gaiman for The Sunday Times that he would consider writing out the author proxy who appears in the fifth and sixth Dark Tower volumes.
...then why do you gloat about imaginary "ad revenues" and "controversy" here?
Because I love trolling the trolls. Nothing gets a troll pissed off than knowing that someone else is making money off of their comments and stupidity.
Since you plan to retire on the revenues from these?
Ad revenues is one revenue stream. First serial rights, reprints and ebook sales is another revenue stream. I have 28 other revenue streams that I haven't even discussed on Slashdot.
So why can't you accept criticism to help you improve?
The IRS is looking for solid information, not an "educated guess" or unsupported speculation. We are also looking for a significant Federal tax issue - this is not a program for resolving personal problems or disputes about a business relationship.
I wonder what the penalty is for filing a false whistleblower report? You may want to consult with an attorney first.
I'm sure if I forward your post where you yourself give away your "private and confidential' sales figures, they'll be pleased as punch, yeah?
This is just one more example of creimer's atrocious grammar.
What you don't seem to understand is that I'm not writing great literature, I'm selling short stories and readers of short stories are very forgiving. The short story you quoted without proper citation has sold 700+ copies as an ebook.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot comments should be perfect for testing the detectors. Assuming, of course, the detectors don't commit suicide from all "go kill yourself" comments.
Wow, the Extinction Asteroid can't come soon enough.
The old business model doesn't work. This is the new business model.
You have it backwards. Who is going to apply these patches? Who is going to help businesses migrate off of old, unsupported versions of Windows (onto newer versions of Windows--let's be real here)?
How many Microsoft employees can I expect to show up at my location to apply all these patches?
Answer: None.
So by your own admission, you make even less than I estimated.
I didn't pull the numbers out of my ass like you did. They're based on what I actually earned each month.
As those reviews pile up, your books get harder and harder to sell, too - that means that the more you "don't care" about your bad grammar, the harder it'll be to sell NEW books, as well as copies of old books.
Which is why I'm spending this year revamping my catalog with new cover art, revised texts and higher prices.
[...] from the job-security-for-non-microsoft-it-workers dept
FTFY
I don't think they make a gun with a trigger hole big enough for your mongoloid fingers.
I have no problems shooting a regular 9mm handgun.
Have you tried tweeting him three times a day?
I'm not the asshat threatening to file imaginary complaints because my covfefe feelings got hurt.
You can't even clearly articulate a simple thought.
Why do you keep replying to my comments then?
Assuming the dishonest piece of shit reports this income to the IRS, it's less than that, no?
I've been in business 10+ years. All my income has been reported to the IRS.
You wouldn't by any chance be the asshat who falsely accused me of threatening to shoot him? I still haven't heard from Governor Jerry Brown for that complaint.
The 47 recommendations include creating a board oversight committee, rewriting Uber's cultural values, reducing alcohol use at work events, and prohibiting intimate relationships between employees and their bosses.
Time to end being a startup and grow up into a Fortune 500 company. Everyone will attend sensitivity training until that happens.
Congratulations, your writing exists to take up space.
With virtual bookshelves, space is infinite and ebook sales can continue forever.
Criticisms, plural. You wanted "aren't". You're the one who's ignorant of grade-school level knowledge.
If you're going to be a grammar nazi, your comments need more bite. It'll be more effective if your target actually cares about his comments on Slashdot (I don't).
The "average" fees Amazon charges is ~0.06 per unit sold, so let's say your book costs them 4 cents - substantially below the average.
Please stop pulling numbers out of your ass. Since I'm not a KDP Select member that requires giving Amazon exclusive rights to sell my ebooks online, my royalty rate is $0.35 per copy. Smashwords royalty rate is $0.54 per copy. About 90% of my sales come from Smashwords. That's ~$365 to date for this ebook (not including the $20 for first serial rights).
Yeah, I can see now why you're planning to retire on this revenue stream.
Let's say that sales stay consistent for the next 30 years until I retire. My short story ebook could earn $11,000 during that time. That's not bad considering that short stories were published (paid) once and never seen again as the reprint market have ceased to exist over the last 50 years. I got ~60 published short stories, another ~30 short stories circulating for submission, and I can easily write four 5,000-word stories per year. Let's say I have 200 short story ebooks by the time I retire in 30 years, and they averaged $11,000 in sales each, my total income by retirement could be $2M+.
Here's pro tip: read The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson.
You tell boring stories (I've grabbed samples of several of your books - they're ALL poorly editied, full of run-on sentences), which are completely unreadable by anybody who has an expectation of being entertained or informed by something they read.
That's funny. Most of my short story ebooks were previously published in anthologies, which were sold at Borders and Barnes & Noble. I used to grab a half-dozen different anthologies off the shelf to show off to my friends.
Ouch... had never heard about the previous issue (or perhaps I did, maybe 10 years ago)... makes sense now.
Slashdot got bitten by the Y2K bug, albeit not the one that everyone expected.
I remember it as being when they hit 16777216 (2^24) comments... but yeah, same idea here xD
That story referenced the earlier incident that I was thinking about with the 16-bit field in 2001.
Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) but neglected to change the index that handles parents.
Does anyone remember when the Slashdot database had a 16-bit field that caused the website go offline for a few days until that problem got fixed?
Still sounds more useful than Trump's circle jerk Cabinet meetings where all the Cabinet members prostrate themselves and praise him like they are a bunch of North Koreans seeing Kim Jong Un
The same group of people who wanted a tank-and-missile display at the inauguration like they do in Russia and North Korea.
I've read Stephen King, and you sir, are no Stephen King.
You read his short stories as they were originally published in the titty magazines? Or did you read them in the short story collection books? Stephen King is well known for re-editing his short stories a dozen times for the reprint market before they're published in "final" book form. He even revised the first four volumes of The Dark Tower to fix all the plot holes he introduced over the decades and later included himself as a character in volumes five and six. Heck, he might even revise himself out of volumes five and six in the future.
Although he's famous for making cameos in movies and TV miniseries based on his novels, King had second thoughts after including himself as a character in the series. The author mentioned in an interview with fellow scribe Neil Gaiman for The Sunday Times that he would consider writing out the author proxy who appears in the fifth and sixth Dark Tower volumes.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/62981/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-dark-tower-series
Can you show where King didn't know what a past participle is, or if he uses run-on sentences?
Read "On Writing," where he confessed his literary sins and giving advice that he doesn't often follow himself.
But that doesn't sink in at all, does it?
That's because you're not looking at Stephen King from the perspective of an indie author.
...then why do you gloat about imaginary "ad revenues" and "controversy" here?
Because I love trolling the trolls. Nothing gets a troll pissed off than knowing that someone else is making money off of their comments and stupidity.
Since you plan to retire on the revenues from these?
Ad revenues is one revenue stream. First serial rights, reprints and ebook sales is another revenue stream. I have 28 other revenue streams that I haven't even discussed on Slashdot.
So why can't you accept criticism to help you improve?
Criticisms based on ignorance isn't helpful.
https://www.irs.gov/uac/whistleblower-informant-award
Did you read your own link?
The IRS is looking for solid information, not an "educated guess" or unsupported speculation. We are also looking for a significant Federal tax issue - this is not a program for resolving personal problems or disputes about a business relationship.
I wonder what the penalty is for filing a false whistleblower report? You may want to consult with an attorney first.
I'm sure if I forward your post where you yourself give away your "private and confidential' sales figures, they'll be pleased as punch, yeah?
Pfft... Whatever floats your boat.
Seriously, you're simply an AWFUL writer, just terrible.
That's what they been saying about Stephen King for years because his AWFUL writing... sells.
That joke feels like it's recycled from a decade ago.
Trump is getting the same national security briefings that Ronald Reagan got in the final years of his administration.
Are we going to get refurbished Bush-jokes now?
Who knew that George W. was an intellectual?
Trump's national security briefings include little text, many pictures and a box of crayons.
Just trying to help you protect your brand as an author, it probably helps to master simple grammar.
Still under the delusion that Slashdot matters in the real world? Tsk, tsk.
This is just one more example of creimer's atrocious grammar.
What you don't seem to understand is that I'm not writing great literature, I'm selling short stories and readers of short stories are very forgiving. The short story you quoted without proper citation has sold 700+ copies as an ebook.