How much does it cost to print a book? Not a whole lot... $.50 to $2.00 or so. The cost savings to a publisher is fairly small. closer to 0 than to $5. But I don't really care. That isn't the point. The point for me is when the mass market book is CHEAPER than the ebook, why should I pay more for the ebook?
£8.99 is cheaper than £9?
Right now Pandora's Star at Amazon is $8.99 for kindle, and $8.99 for mass market paperback. I can go to Barnes And Noble and get it for %10 off... So the physical book is cheaper. WHY should I pay more for the ebook? I've heard the argument that "it is more convenient." Not always, but I've already paid for that convenience with my $200 reader.
The prices were artificially depressed before. YOU were paying less, but that also means someone on the other end was necessarily earning less. That might seem great to you, but I'm sure the writer wasn't super hyped about it. Neither was the publisher.
Here is my issue:
A Mass market paper back is $7.99. With a Barnes and Noble discount I can get 10% off the book.
Along come ereaders. No paper to waste, no gas to drive the book to the store. No cost to pay someone to stock it, or print it
But the price is $7.99 FIRM.
So what do I do? Pay $7.19 or $7.99? Why should I pay the higher price? NOTE that both of these prices are set by the publisher (except for the 10% discount, which is eaten by B&N, not the publisher) I am guessing the publisher wants me to buy the ebook, not because of the higher price tag, but because of the lower cost to them to publish it, hence they make more money. But I want to spend less money. I'm not asking for them to change the price. I am just choosing the lowest price they offer.
But guess what? I'm pretty fed up with the agency model, so I don't buy their product at all.
When I first started to investigate whether to get an ebook reader or not, prices for ebooks were the same or more than the mass market version. Then, about 2 years ago the prices dropped. Ebooks were generally 1 to 2$ less than the mass market version. I can't provide you any evidence other than I saw this. And then Apple came along... and the agency model was introduced and prices went up again.
Now I know there is this whole issue about comparing ebooks to hardcover. And I don't know what the prices were like before, as I don't purchase hard covers. I never liked the form factor, I preferred the size of the mass market. And all of a sudden my 10% Barnes and Noble discount meant I could purchase a book cheaper than an ebook. So not only did I have to spend $200 on a reader, I also had to spend an extra buck on the books themselves?
I've never written or publish a book. but I would argue (and many authors have argued) they do less then 90% of the work. There is editing and marketing. And marketing is VERY important.
So, what are you saying? Authors should write for free?
I refuse to pay the same price (or more) for an ebook as for a mass market version.
I've been reading some classics I never got around to reading (just finished Gulliver's Travels. And mostly read independents. But i've also noticed that, most of the GOOD riders, write for the big 6. Some of the independents I've read are good. But some aren't. And there are books from the big 6 I want to read... but won't at the price point they are asking.
Isn't it enough that I went to college and built a solid base of good work I can point to that shows I can do the job?
No
How do I know it is your "solid base of good work?"
I have been interviewing people for programming positions, almost as long as I've been a programmer myself. When I worked at a large company I used to interview college students. I was amazed at the number of straight A students who couldn't write simple code. Now I tend to interview people with a few years experience, and I am still amazed at how poor their programming skills our... Fizbuzz in action.
What it comes down to is money and monopoly power. All I want to see probably adds up to a maximum of 10 hours a week, including the news, some sporting events and one or two TV series. Yet, the only way for me to gain access to that specific content legally is to buy a cable subscription,
Why? Are you too far in the middle of nowhere to get it over the air?
I pay for cable because I like ESPN, and I think it is simpler than any other way. But are the 10 hours you want to watch available on abc/nbc/cbs.com? Or are they on one of the pay networks like HBO?
People seem to enjoy watch Star Wars and Star Trek, so why stop making movies, tv shows?
Firefox died because Fox failed to market it properly. A friend of mine watched the first episode and while he loved the show, he felt it had too many characters. He said it would last long. And Fox showed the shows out of order, on the wrong night.
"(C)ommunication" isn't the issue, it's having demonstrable ratings that appeal to advertisers - TV is not an entertainment medium, it is a mediumm for conveying advertising. They attract you by offering you some entertainment, but until you realize the networks don't really care what they show, they just want an audience to watch the commercials in it.
Communication is the issue (or part of it)
Look, you have a product you want to sell. Would you rather sell it to the masses, and hope some want it... Or would you rather sell it to someone who wants your product?
The networks DO care what they show. They want to show something that people will watch. Because the more people that watch the show, the more they can charge for advertisers. Hence they have to cater to the people watching the shows... or they lose their "product."
I don't understand kick starter. If you fund a project you don't get any shares and don't get to share in the profit, and if the person leading the project blows all the dough on ale and wenches you can't interject any authority right?
What is there to understand? Kickstarter is about donations. DONATIONS. Sometimes they offer something in return for those donations.
Teachers are doing this for your benefit, not theirs.
They are doing this to make sure you don't cheat. My teachers told me to "show my work." "I did!" I wrote down everything that needed to be written down... Or I would solve it a way differently than I taught it. "Well how do we know you did the work?" Uhmmm perhaps because I scored the highest score on the annual national math test? Who else am I going to copy from?
It wasn't about helping you... it was about making sure you didn't cheat.
Here in the USA we do NOT want geniuses, we want good factory and office workers. Mediocre will not challenge authority.
Life isn't a big conspiracy theory. I had some great public teachers that tried to push my. The problem isn't that USA doesn't want geniuses, the problem is having the resources to deal with them. You have 35 students to teach, who will teach, the 1 or 2 at either end of the bell? Or the 25-30 in the middle of the class?
Concepts of mathematics (calculus) are actually very simple.
Teach your kid about 'x' and abstract thinking in relation to rates of
change. The rest follows quite naturally. (IMO).
Sure, if you can figure out the "relation to rates of change" thing, then calculus is simple. BUT that is the hard part. That is something most people just can' grasp.Shoot most people have a problem grasping the concept of this 'x' thing, let alone its derivative. Throw in the fact that a derivative is different than most everything else you've learned in math, and it becomes a difficult concept.
The same way pointers are beyond most peoples understanding. If you understand it, its simple. But getting someone to understand it is the hard part.
I have recently migrated off of Visual Studio, onto Qt Creator because Creator has matured to be clearly better than Studio.
Can you (or anyone) give some clear examples on what you think is better about QT than VS? And don't say things like "the editor is clearly better" That doesn't really help me. What is features do you like that one has and the other doesn't?
I happen to like VS, the only other IDE I've used lately is xcode and it has some better autocompletion but otherwise I don't like it.
Because Microsoft controls the APIs and can release new versions of Visual Studio simultaneously with the new releases of Windows? Because anybody who wants to do an open IDE for Windows has to wade through the craptastic Microsoft documentation to be a year behind the curve, right about time for the next set of API changes?
What does the WinAPI have to do with the IDE? They aren't really related in any way.
And while I agree the documentation for MS API's isn't the best in the world, it is a ton better than a LOT of documentation out there. But I also fail to see what this has to do with the IDE.
Uh, no, the straight to the DMCA is a douche bag move. Contacting the people and politely ask them to take it down is the 'good guy' move. He didn't do that.
Uhm From TFA:
I simply took the web address and did a NSLOOKUP to come up with the IP address and then plugged the IP in to ARIN to determine the owner of the site and sent the take-down notice to the email address listed as the abuse contact or I used the DMCA form provided by the host if one was available
So he only went straight to the DMCA when he had no email address. Doesn't sound like he did a very douche bag move after all.
We can't really determine from the information he has provided whether there is any ulterior motive for his takedown notice.
Really? From TFA:
I decided to file a formal Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down notice with the providers of any site I found using my image without permission.....This worked out very well, for the most part. Sites that were using the image either offered to license the photo or simply took it down.
Seems like his ulterior motive was either get ALL the photos removed or licensed.
Why do you assume he was ONLY out to get Candice?
Who ever said he had a business model? I am not a photographer, yet once someone used my photo to disparage the sport I enjoy... Should I just stand by and let that happen because I need a new business model?
And why do I need a new business model because a handful of greedy people?
"The fair use doctrine permits nonprofits more leeway than for profit businesses." - That's not true but it's understandable if she believes it is and thought no harm was done.
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Doesn't sound like a nonprofit to me. The fact the her for profit site was tied to a non profit site is irrelevant.
A surprising amount of time just asking before publishing and posting a photo credit is all it takes to get permission, especially if your an individual or a non-profit.
Sure... Except in this case the photo was being used for a company.
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How much does it cost to print a book? Not a whole lot... $.50 to $2.00 or so. The cost savings to a publisher is fairly small. closer to 0 than to $5. But I don't really care. That isn't the point. The point for me is when the mass market book is CHEAPER than the ebook, why should I pay more for the ebook?
£8.99 is cheaper than £9?
Right now Pandora's Star at Amazon is $8.99 for kindle, and $8.99 for mass market paperback. I can go to Barnes And Noble and get it for %10 off... So the physical book is cheaper. WHY should I pay more for the ebook? I've heard the argument that "it is more convenient." Not always, but I've already paid for that convenience with my $200 reader.
The prices were artificially depressed before. YOU were paying less, but that also means someone on the other end was necessarily earning less. That might seem great to you, but I'm sure the writer wasn't super hyped about it. Neither was the publisher.
Here is my issue:
A Mass market paper back is $7.99. With a Barnes and Noble discount I can get 10% off the book.
Along come ereaders. No paper to waste, no gas to drive the book to the store. No cost to pay someone to stock it, or print it
But the price is $7.99 FIRM.
So what do I do? Pay $7.19 or $7.99? Why should I pay the higher price? NOTE that both of these prices are set by the publisher (except for the 10% discount, which is eaten by B&N, not the publisher) I am guessing the publisher wants me to buy the ebook, not because of the higher price tag, but because of the lower cost to them to publish it, hence they make more money. But I want to spend less money. I'm not asking for them to change the price. I am just choosing the lowest price they offer.
But guess what? I'm pretty fed up with the agency model, so I don't buy their product at all.
When I first started to investigate whether to get an ebook reader or not, prices for ebooks were the same or more than the mass market version. Then, about 2 years ago the prices dropped. Ebooks were generally 1 to 2$ less than the mass market version. I can't provide you any evidence other than I saw this. And then Apple came along... and the agency model was introduced and prices went up again.
Now I know there is this whole issue about comparing ebooks to hardcover. And I don't know what the prices were like before, as I don't purchase hard covers. I never liked the form factor, I preferred the size of the mass market. And all of a sudden my 10% Barnes and Noble discount meant I could purchase a book cheaper than an ebook. So not only did I have to spend $200 on a reader, I also had to spend an extra buck on the books themselves?
I've never written or publish a book. but I would argue (and many authors have argued) they do less then 90% of the work. There is editing and marketing. And marketing is VERY important.
So, what are you saying? Authors should write for free?
I refuse to pay the same price (or more) for an ebook as for a mass market version.
I've been reading some classics I never got around to reading (just finished Gulliver's Travels. And mostly read independents. But i've also noticed that, most of the GOOD riders, write for the big 6. Some of the independents I've read are good. But some aren't. And there are books from the big 6 I want to read... but won't at the price point they are asking.
Isn't it enough that I went to college and built a solid base of good work I can point to that shows I can do the job?
No
How do I know it is your "solid base of good work?"
I have been interviewing people for programming positions, almost as long as I've been a programmer myself. When I worked at a large company I used to interview college students. I was amazed at the number of straight A students who couldn't write simple code. Now I tend to interview people with a few years experience, and I am still amazed at how poor their programming skills our... Fizbuzz in action.
What it comes down to is money and monopoly power. All I want to see probably adds up to a maximum of 10 hours a week, including the news, some sporting events and one or two TV series. Yet, the only way for me to gain access to that specific content legally is to buy a cable subscription,
Why? Are you too far in the middle of nowhere to get it over the air?
I pay for cable because I like ESPN, and I think it is simpler than any other way. But are the 10 hours you want to watch available on abc/nbc/cbs.com? Or are they on one of the pay networks like HBO?
People seem to enjoy watch Star Wars and Star Trek, so why stop making movies, tv shows?
Firefox died because Fox failed to market it properly. A friend of mine watched the first episode and while he loved the show, he felt it had too many characters. He said it would last long. And Fox showed the shows out of order, on the wrong night.
"(C)ommunication" isn't the issue, it's having demonstrable ratings that appeal to advertisers - TV is not an entertainment medium, it is a mediumm for conveying advertising. They attract you by offering you some entertainment, but until you realize the networks don't really care what they show, they just want an audience to watch the commercials in it.
Communication is the issue (or part of it)
Look, you have a product you want to sell. Would you rather sell it to the masses, and hope some want it... Or would you rather sell it to someone who wants your product?
The networks DO care what they show. They want to show something that people will watch. Because the more people that watch the show, the more they can charge for advertisers. Hence they have to cater to the people watching the shows... or they lose their "product."
I don't understand kick starter. If you fund a project you don't get any shares and don't get to share in the profit, and if the person leading the project blows all the dough on ale and wenches you can't interject any authority right?
What is there to understand? Kickstarter is about donations. DONATIONS. Sometimes they offer something in return for those donations.
Teachers are doing this for your benefit, not theirs.
They are doing this to make sure you don't cheat. My teachers told me to "show my work." "I did!" I wrote down everything that needed to be written down... Or I would solve it a way differently than I taught it. "Well how do we know you did the work?" Uhmmm perhaps because I scored the highest score on the annual national math test? Who else am I going to copy from?
It wasn't about helping you... it was about making sure you didn't cheat.
Here in the USA we do NOT want geniuses, we want good factory and office workers. Mediocre will not challenge authority.
Life isn't a big conspiracy theory. I had some great public teachers that tried to push my. The problem isn't that USA doesn't want geniuses, the problem is having the resources to deal with them. You have 35 students to teach, who will teach, the 1 or 2 at either end of the bell? Or the 25-30 in the middle of the class?
Concepts of mathematics (calculus) are actually very simple.
Teach your kid about 'x' and abstract thinking in relation to rates of change. The rest follows quite naturally. (IMO).
Sure, if you can figure out the "relation to rates of change" thing, then calculus is simple. BUT that is the hard part. That is something most people just can' grasp.Shoot most people have a problem grasping the concept of this 'x' thing, let alone its derivative. Throw in the fact that a derivative is different than most everything else you've learned in math, and it becomes a difficult concept.
The same way pointers are beyond most peoples understanding. If you understand it, its simple. But getting someone to understand it is the hard part.
I have recently migrated off of Visual Studio, onto Qt Creator because Creator has matured to be clearly better than Studio.
Can you (or anyone) give some clear examples on what you think is better about QT than VS? And don't say things like "the editor is clearly better" That doesn't really help me. What is features do you like that one has and the other doesn't?
I happen to like VS, the only other IDE I've used lately is xcode and it has some better autocompletion but otherwise I don't like it.
Because Microsoft controls the APIs and can release new versions of Visual Studio simultaneously with the new releases of Windows? Because anybody who wants to do an open IDE for Windows has to wade through the craptastic Microsoft documentation to be a year behind the curve, right about time for the next set of API changes?
What does the WinAPI have to do with the IDE? They aren't really related in any way.
And while I agree the documentation for MS API's isn't the best in the world, it is a ton better than a LOT of documentation out there. But I also fail to see what this has to do with the IDE.
He only started the conversation with a DMCA takedown if he couldn't find an email associated with the site. What would you recommend he do?
No
Uh, no, the straight to the DMCA is a douche bag move. Contacting the people and politely ask them to take it down is the 'good guy' move. He didn't do that.
Uhm From TFA:
I simply took the web address and did a NSLOOKUP to come up with the IP address and then plugged the IP in to ARIN to determine the owner of the site and sent the take-down notice to the email address listed as the abuse contact or I used the DMCA form provided by the host if one was available
So he only went straight to the DMCA when he had no email address. Doesn't sound like he did a very douche bag move after all.
We can't really determine from the information he has provided whether there is any ulterior motive for his takedown notice.
Really? From TFA:
I decided to file a formal Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down notice with the providers of any site I found using my image without permission.....This worked out very well, for the most part. Sites that were using the image either offered to license the photo or simply took it down. Seems like his ulterior motive was either get ALL the photos removed or licensed.
Why do you assume he was ONLY out to get Candice?
Because it isn't relevant.
Who ever said he had a business model? I am not a photographer, yet once someone used my photo to disparage the sport I enjoy... Should I just stand by and let that happen because I need a new business model?
And why do I need a new business model because a handful of greedy people?
She also commented:
"The fair use doctrine permits nonprofits more leeway than for profit businesses." - That's not true but it's understandable if she believes it is and thought no harm was done.
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Doesn't sound like a nonprofit to me. The fact the her for profit site was tied to a non profit site is irrelevant.
A surprising amount of time just asking before publishing and posting a photo credit is all it takes to get permission, especially if your an individual or a non-profit.
Sure... Except in this case the photo was being used for a company.
Ok, what if someone ELSE puts it on the internet?