Not only are they advertising a new Scam scan domain (MaxMySpeed.com) evidently CyberDefender is running out of cash as well. Seems they can't pay their marketing firm.
it amazes me that these sorts of patent are ever approved. I think it must take a special kind of moron to be a patent examiner, seriously. Prior art on press releases would go back to the early days of PR and online back into the early 90's at least. I hope the defendants pool their resources and invalidate the patent and then file for extreme damages and put the plaintiff out of business or at least dent his wallet so much that he avoids future frivolous litigation.
I use CreateSpace.com for print and sell my own eBook (PDF) in my own store (with the exception of Kindle). Not sure is CreateSpace is available to overseas authors though. The pricing is much better than Lulu.com and I have more control over the books, including price changes, etc. They also have an expanded distribution where the book shows up in other online retailers besides Amazon.com and I've had quite a few brick and mortar booksellers ordering books as well via CreateSpace.
Self marketing wise I sell around 200 books a month (print and eBook combined).
I'll have to say self publishing, both print and eBook formats has worked well for me. Mind you I don't sell 1,000 books a month and the lowest price is 9.95 for eBooks and 24.95 for print.
I do my own marketing for the books so sales are based on how hard I work to promote them. Editing though is very important and it isn't hard to find qualified out-sourced editing for an affordable cost.
One problem I see is pricing books too low, once you set a low threshold then readers (of the particular author) will always demand low priced books. The author then gets stuck in a price rut.
A books contents in my opinion should set the "value" or price of the book. What I write is primarily niche information and many times the only reliable source of information, thus I can price a book higher than other book genres can.
I've had great success with a Paywall on www.poserworld.com, we've been charging for access to our 3D content for about 10 years. Of course what I have available are scarce goods (digital content) that cannot be obtained elsewhere.
I also tried a Paywall on Designer Today (graphic design magazine) and met with only a small success and eventually abandoned the charge for access to our premium content.
It all boils down to the fact that if what someone is charging access to can be found elsewhere for free, then a Paywall isn't going to be profitable. Until newspapers find something of substantial value to provide to paying customers then they are doomed to failure by charging for access.
I love it. Publicizing companies sleaziness is a great thing. If publicized enough they think twice the next time they pull such questionable practices. Good going!
Another reason for me to stop going to the movies all together and just wait till the movie comes out on DVD, Netflix or PPV. The industry thinks by raising prices they will have a much higher profit margin. What will happen, I believe, is that less consumers will go to the movies and their profit margin will stay where it is currently or shrink a good bit. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, eventually movie prices will get so cheap, as they'll have to compete with the likes of Netflix to get warm bodies into theaters.
I still prefer Music CD's over MP3's. CD's are more durable than digital formats. Less worry about hard drives failing. Call me backwards, but then again that's me...
I am so sick of seeing those Free Credit Report commercials, the guy can't even freaking sing. Worse is they claim "free" when it's not. They should have been shut down or forced to be honest about it years ago.
I for one made sure that the sites we post news on got included in Google News, the way I see it all web traffic is good traffic (well 99% of it). Let the big boys cry and pout and pull out, it means more free traffic for me. I am more than happy to have it.
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hey,
The work competitor in the headline is spelled incorrectly. ;-)
New Scam Domain MaxMySpeed.com / CyberDefender
Not only are they advertising a new Scam scan domain (MaxMySpeed.com) evidently CyberDefender is running out of cash as well. Seems they can't pay their marketing firm.
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Patents Office In General
it amazes me that these sorts of patent are ever approved. I think it must take a special kind of moron to be a patent examiner, seriously. Prior art on press releases would go back to the early days of PR and online back into the early 90's at least. I hope the defendants pool their resources and invalidate the patent and then file for extreme damages and put the plaintiff out of business or at least dent his wallet so much that he avoids future frivolous litigation.
Re: pricing
I use CreateSpace.com for print and sell my own eBook (PDF) in my own store (with the exception of Kindle). Not sure is CreateSpace is available to overseas authors though. The pricing is much better than Lulu.com and I have more control over the books, including price changes, etc. They also have an expanded distribution where the book shows up in other online retailers besides Amazon.com and I've had quite a few brick and mortar booksellers ordering books as well via CreateSpace.
Self marketing wise I sell around 200 books a month (print and eBook combined).
Self Publishing
I'll have to say self publishing, both print and eBook formats has worked well for me. Mind you I don't sell 1,000 books a month and the lowest price is 9.95 for eBooks and 24.95 for print.
I do my own marketing for the books so sales are based on how hard I work to promote them. Editing though is very important and it isn't hard to find qualified out-sourced editing for an affordable cost.
One problem I see is pricing books too low, once you set a low threshold then readers (of the particular author) will always demand low priced books. The author then gets stuck in a price rut.
A books contents in my opinion should set the "value" or price of the book. What I write is primarily niche information and many times the only reliable source of information, thus I can price a book higher than other book genres can.
Paywalls
I've had great success with a Paywall on www.poserworld.com, we've been charging for access to our 3D content for about 10 years. Of course what I have available are scarce goods (digital content) that cannot be obtained elsewhere.
I also tried a Paywall on Designer Today (graphic design magazine) and met with only a small success and eventually abandoned the charge for access to our premium content.
It all boils down to the fact that if what someone is charging access to can be found elsewhere for free, then a Paywall isn't going to be profitable. Until newspapers find something of substantial value to provide to paying customers then they are doomed to failure by charging for access.
Just my .02
Using their own "weapons" against them
I love it. Publicizing companies sleaziness is a great thing. If publicized enough they think twice the next time they pull such questionable practices. Good going!
Movie Prices
Another reason for me to stop going to the movies all together and just wait till the movie comes out on DVD, Netflix or PPV. The industry thinks by raising prices they will have a much higher profit margin. What will happen, I believe, is that less consumers will go to the movies and their profit margin will stay where it is currently or shrink a good bit. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, eventually movie prices will get so cheap, as they'll have to compete with the likes of Netflix to get warm bodies into theaters.
CD Prices
I still prefer Music CD's over MP3's. CD's are more durable than digital formats. Less worry about hard drives failing. Call me backwards, but then again that's me...
It's About Time
I am so sick of seeing those Free Credit Report commercials, the guy can't even freaking sing. Worse is they claim "free" when it's not. They should have been shut down or forced to be honest about it years ago.
Google News Traffic
I for one made sure that the sites we post news on got included in Google News, the way I see it all web traffic is good traffic (well 99% of it). Let the big boys cry and pout and pull out, it means more free traffic for me. I am more than happy to have it.