Very good. Only, the drummer is the one being vetoed by the band. What's the last thing a drummer says before getting fired? "Hey guys, let's do one of my songs!"
No, it's not even remotely like that. As it was pointed out above, books are not sodas. They aren't merely differently branded examples of essentially the same thing. Each book is unique.
This is idiotic. The real costs of books have not changed significantly. Books ARE NOT widgets. There is no assembly line for books. What will happen, what already IS happening is you'll be able to buy books cheaply and the overwhelming majority of them will suck. That's already the case at Amazon. Thanks to their kindle business (which you can't filter out in searches at Amazon) you have to wade through steaming heaps of self-published dreck to find a good books.
If you cut the margins thin enough, the authors will stop writing, or will produce far less content because, you know, they have to actually earn a living.
A legitimate target. What as asshole.
Better make sure goverment offices never offer daycare services to their employees, because that makes 3 year olds legitimate targets for assholes like you.
You know this whole 'back in the seventies the scientists we're all about global cooling' has been debunked so many times that it makes you really look moronic to post it yet again.
Plus, the streaming video quality is so, so much worse than Blu-ray. I only buy thngs that I really appreciate, but I don't mind doing it since the prices have come down to where DVDs were a few years ago. I generally get what I want in a two disk Blu-ray+dvd+download version for around $20.
What is it about having a Federal agency in charge of regulating all air traffic that makes this suddenly not a democratic republic? The FAA was put in place by a government of elected representatives.
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Very good. Only, the drummer is the one being vetoed by the band. What's the last thing a drummer says before getting fired? "Hey guys, let's do one of my songs!"
Yes, Charlie Stross, full blown socialist bordering on communist has only the interests of the fat cat corporations at heart.
Neither. But I expect that you might be both.
Yes, because text books publishing is the only sort there is, correct?
Funny how many authors disagree with you.
Yes, and it's just coincidence that the discounts have been removed from all Hatchette books.
Yes, because why should the author or publisher actually get anything? We all know it's about the mighty Bezos machine extracting it's blood.
In other words, extortion.
So why, at the time, did Amazon hold a 90 percent market share?
Yeah, no. Publishing doesn't work that way.
Learn something about what publishers actually do: http://www.antipope.org/charli...
They have several publishing houses now. 47 North is another, not self-publishing one.
No, it's not even remotely like that. As it was pointed out above, books are not sodas. They aren't merely differently branded examples of essentially the same thing. Each book is unique.
Excessive value? The impression I get around here is that excessive value for a book is pretty much any positive number.
This is idiotic. The real costs of books have not changed significantly. Books ARE NOT widgets. There is no assembly line for books. What will happen, what already IS happening is you'll be able to buy books cheaply and the overwhelming majority of them will suck. That's already the case at Amazon. Thanks to their kindle business (which you can't filter out in searches at Amazon) you have to wade through steaming heaps of self-published dreck to find a good books. If you cut the margins thin enough, the authors will stop writing, or will produce far less content because, you know, they have to actually earn a living.
A legitimate target. What as asshole. Better make sure goverment offices never offer daycare services to their employees, because that makes 3 year olds legitimate targets for assholes like you.
Yes, and no one will believe you. The Mythical Man Month will make you a believer. Plus, it's not very long and exceedingly entertaining.
That was a great book.
You know this whole 'back in the seventies the scientists we're all about global cooling' has been debunked so many times that it makes you really look moronic to post it yet again.
Plus, the streaming video quality is so, so much worse than Blu-ray. I only buy thngs that I really appreciate, but I don't mind doing it since the prices have come down to where DVDs were a few years ago. I generally get what I want in a two disk Blu-ray+dvd+download version for around $20.
Slow clap.
On a much, much longer time scale. And of course, many of them /didn't/ adapt.
Oculus delivered their kickstarter rewards.
Yes, because of course they will. After all, they're all totally nuts right? Not professionals with a job to do.
What is it about having a Federal agency in charge of regulating all air traffic that makes this suddenly not a democratic republic? The FAA was put in place by a government of elected representatives.