The short answer is: because publishers assume all the risk, lay out the money to publish the book, make the book better and pay the authors something in advance.
If what publishers offered to writers was a necessity, (physical publishing) then what do they have to offer with eBooks? Nothing you can't get elsewhere. eBook distribution, editing, and marketing you can get anywhere.
Yup, that's about all I needed to read to realize the greed and corruption going on here. And yeah, publishers have been chugging along quite nicely even in this economy, but is that by choice or by force?
Cite? Because I'm pretty sure you're pulling this out of your ass.
Exactly why will the book market be better off if publishers lose their grip? Sounds to me as though you're replacing the publisher with....a publisher.
I suspect that there aren't that many people working in the publishing industry because they're greedy bastards trying to get rich.
A large part of the entire point of this exercise is that MacMillan wants the ability to flex prices, such that a new book out in hardcover is $15 as an ebook and the price then flexes down over time.
What artists should do is adopt a new model of distribution. For authors, this means abandoning the publishing industry altogether, which is not necessary in an age of instant and perfect copying. For fiction writers, stories should not be released all at once, but one chapter at a time, with the requirement for the next chapter's release being a certain minimum number of payments; each chapter should include instructions for payment at the end, with a note about the conditions for releasing the next chapter (there is nothing in the "pirate" culture that should compel people to remove such information).
Which is not a model that I, who is currently a voracious reader, would be willing to participate in. I don't do serials and especially not if there's a chance the story will remain unfinished. So there's all those sales gone. It sounds mostly like a recipe for a huge number of unfinished works sitting around.
Also being neglected are the very real services provided by publishers. There aren't too many writers who really ought to be in the business of editing themselves.
Absolutely. What a shallow reading of the film. There's nothing inherently anti-technology about it. In fact, if you think about it, the Na'vi are actually pretty damn hi-tech themselves with their biological networking capabilities.
Idiots such as yourself are reason one why we're pretty much screwed.
Hyuk hyuk capitalist capitalist freeee markeettttttt!
I'm sure the free market will be happy to comfort your grandchildren. Assuming you can find anyone who will breed with you.
You mean the lawsuit that Microsoft won, by proving that their product was built differently from Apple's and did not duplicate or resemble any Apple code? It is widely known that Apple and Microsoft both borrowed their windowing OS concepts from Xerox.
Uh, no. Apple/purchased/ what they got from Xerox with stock.
It's kind of time this urban myth died.
The newspaper story is wrong (and that isn't 'from the police report'). He was leaving the US. He'd been in the US for several days at that point.
Which is why it's referred to as a 'secondary inspection'. Those are random inspections of vehicles leaving the US.
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The short answer is: because publishers assume all the risk, lay out the money to publish the book, make the book better and pay the authors something in advance.
If what publishers offered to writers was a necessity, (physical publishing) then what do they have to offer with eBooks? Nothing you can't get elsewhere. eBook distribution, editing, and marketing you can get anywhere.
Uh, yeah. They're called publishers.
Cite? Because I'm pretty sure you're pulling this out of your ass.
Exactly why will the book market be better off if publishers lose their grip? Sounds to me as though you're replacing the publisher with ....a publisher.
I suspect that there aren't that many people working in the publishing industry because they're greedy bastards trying to get rich.
A large part of the entire point of this exercise is that MacMillan wants the ability to flex prices, such that a new book out in hardcover is $15 as an ebook and the price then flexes down over time.
You and he ought to watch one of the making-of documentaries then. They go into some detail about how the captured facial expressions.
Cite?
Get off my lawn!!!!
Which is not a model that I, who is currently a voracious reader, would be willing to participate in. I don't do serials and especially not if there's a chance the story will remain unfinished. So there's all those sales gone. It sounds mostly like a recipe for a huge number of unfinished works sitting around. Also being neglected are the very real services provided by publishers. There aren't too many writers who really ought to be in the business of editing themselves.
Absolutely. What a shallow reading of the film. There's nothing inherently anti-technology about it. In fact, if you think about it, the Na'vi are actually pretty damn hi-tech themselves with their biological networking capabilities.
Is english your second language? Just wondering...
I see what you did there! The little insinuation that climate change researchers are actually damn dirty commies!!! Hawwww!!!!
I'm sure Orson Scott Card would be happy with population control if it could be demonstrated that only gays were being removed from the population.
Idiots such as yourself are reason one why we're pretty much screwed. Hyuk hyuk capitalist capitalist freeee markeettttttt! I'm sure the free market will be happy to comfort your grandchildren. Assuming you can find anyone who will breed with you.
Classy!!!
Uh, no. Apple /purchased/ what they got from Xerox with stock.
It's kind of time this urban myth died.
What part of that statement do you suppose would be useful when 'used against him'?
The newspaper story is wrong (and that isn't 'from the police report'). He was leaving the US. He'd been in the US for several days at that point. Which is why it's referred to as a 'secondary inspection'. Those are random inspections of vehicles leaving the US.
The half naked part refers to the border police confiscating his coat before they released him. Asshole.
Or perhaps raise taxes so that they can afford to pay for a better form of police officer.
Often. Often? Really? Talk about calling bullshit.
This is pretty damn funny. Yeah, the East German border guards during the cold war had /no/ stress whatsoever.
Fail.
Except when you do.
Apparently, they 'randomly' stop cars leaving. They said he was selected for a 'random' search.
Maybe you should lie down, roll over and see if they'll scratch your tummy too?