04-29-2011, 05:49 PM | #571 | |
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I've lost all kinds of money when platforms shifted on me, but that's just the way of the techno world in my book. I might add that none of this is personal to me . I felt that the rights of creators ought to strongly protected and that arts and the sciences will not flourish if their rights are pirated or "shared'' away. I felt that at least ONE person should advocate this view on a forum where the the IP rights of very authors you profess to care for seem to extend only to the boundaries of what is convenient. Obviously, this kind of dissent is something you can't bear to see expressed, even when you are not the focus of the discussion. I think this is a good time for me to stop being outspoken on this issue, at least for the night. Mission accomplished, Kommisar Ms. Joseph. Dissent has been crushed-at least for the evening. |
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04-29-2011, 05:54 PM | #572 | |
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Are you really comparing a BOOK to a PROGRAM? Seriously? You're comparing a program, which is by it's very nature specifically created for a very limited range of possible hardware, with a BOOK, which is nothing more but a collection of TEXT and pictures and a few markings to enhance the text? If you'd really wanted to make a fair comparison, you should have chosen file formats - because that's what an eBook is - a file. To be read by a program. Not a program in itself. Not even close. But files can be exchanged cross-platform. With ease nowadays even. So should eBooks. (Regarding Code limited to hardware: Yes, I know there is Java. And .Net and perhaps a few more. These are exeptions in that they aren't real programs anymore, but merely instructions for interpreter systems, not the actual CPU. And yes, I know there are ARM processors who do understand Java Bytecode. But it's not really native. They still translate it.) |
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04-29-2011, 05:58 PM | #573 |
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Do not attempt to confuse us with facts.
They would be passed around like MORE popcorn. It would get EASIER to find them than typing [bestseller title][ebook] in a Google box. They would be, like, streamed to your Twitter watchlist in 140 character segments. |
04-29-2011, 06:13 PM | #574 |
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Sorry I haven't had the time to read the whole thread
but, Steven (Lyle Jordan) privacy is probably the last reason for you not making more money as an author. Let's say that the potential of income that you can make as an author is a vast sea and that the fish in this sea is all potential customers. It seems to me that you are blaming your few bitings on the lack of fish, which is just ridicules, in my opinion, as there is more potential customers than you could ever hope count. So maybe you should stop blaming pirates on your lack of success, and actual look at the places where you can actual hope to improve your sales, ect. advertisement. Sales is very much about visibility. I only know about you because I saw this thread. So ask yourself this: if I haven't seen it would it even had mattered if I was indeed a pirate? You're in a tough business Steven and many, many is fishing for the fish. You'll have to stand out to be successful. Edit: Also on a side note, the fact that you seems to want a policed internet makes me angry, and that turned me off as a potential customer. That is just a scary, scary thought right there. Last edited by Kenneth_irl; 04-29-2011 at 06:32 PM. |
04-29-2011, 06:19 PM | #575 | |
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It's sold as "protection for the author's rights", but I see it as "keeping you in the appropriate walled garden"... you bought a Kindle? Then you're a captive customer for Amazon... bought a Nook? Barnes & Noble has you in their grip (less so, but still generally true)... Kobo... Borders/KoboBooks, etc... |
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04-29-2011, 06:26 PM | #576 |
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DRM won't keep someone the knowledgeable and determined from copying things (though a few DRM systems remain uncracked), but it will prevent the casual user from making copies, and for most publishers that seems to be reason enough to use it.
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04-29-2011, 06:33 PM | #578 | |
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And you come up with your imaginary rarity again turning a blind eye on evidence gives you the credibility of a bunch of stoned fools coincidence or a typo? apart from that: MrsJoseph |
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Baen is a publisher that got bigger when other publishers got smaller. Whatever the reasons, other publishers should be falling over themselves to figure out how to apply its methods to their businesses.
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Oh, wait. That's backwards: Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet. Why is it that the most-pirated genre is the one having the most commercial success with ebooks? Quote:
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BeWrite is general fiction. So's BooksForABuck, and a couple of others on the lists. Double Dragon does general nonfic, and I've seen some others; I'll try to track some down. (They mostly have PDFs only.) Publishers who offer nonfic w/o DRM: Stenhouse Publishing: professional development books and videos by teachers and for teachers. SynergEbooks nonfic & multi-genre fiction. EReads.com, some of everything. The eBook Sale, similar. Clocktower Books. Hard Shell Word Factory. Lachesis Publishing. Whiskey Creek Press. Charles River Press. There's no shortage of publishers who've decided they're better off without DRM. And strangely, they're not the ones issuing press releases that say they can't increase author royalties because fighting piracy costs too much. |
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04-29-2011, 11:45 PM | #580 |
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Oh, this is so unfair! i can't give Mrs. Joseph karma because I agreed with something else she said a couple days ago.
MRS. JOSEPH, YOU ROCK!!!!!! |
04-29-2011, 11:49 PM | #581 |
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As I understand it, you need to give at least 2 (or maybe 3) other people Karma before you will be able to give karma to Mrs. Joseph again.
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04-29-2011, 11:49 PM | #582 |
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