When I get some time, I'm going to have to get some of her music for a "test drive." If it turns out I like it, chalk up another fan, drawn in by the publicy.
Eric Flint is right, lack of exposure, not piracy, is the Great Enemy.
My wife uses the term derisively to describe coders who understand how the stuff works and when a problem arises, "Don't worry, dear, I'll take care of it for you." leaving her with no clue as to how the machine works or where the booby-traps are.
Yes, there is a fair gap between "Learn Perl in 24 hours" and building a professionally-polished system.
But keeping "the peasants" ignorant is the fastest way known to man to destroy a free society.
Good people tend to see other people as also being good. Honest people tend to see other people as also being honest. Thieves tend to see other people as also being thieves.
Hollywood sees everybody as a thief. Care to guess what Hollywood's like inside? For objective evidence, BTW, look up "Hollywood Accounting" on Wikipedia.
They do NOT have a "shopping cart" for Nook Books, and when you buy one, you have to sign in again for EACH book. I already had "The Alchemist," so I only had to do that TEN times.
BTW, oh Anonymous Coward, he traded dollars he'd never see from overpriced paper for dollars he WILL see from the eBooks.
And if I like the other books as well as I did "Alchemist" you can bet I'll be recommending them.
"...figuring out how [Hollywood] can remain relevant."
I'm deeply puzzled by the word remain. My family and I get better and more diverse films from around the world via Netflix. Hollywood hasn't been relevant to us for a long (several years) time.
As long as we don't build the cars in this story:
In "Devil Car," a man and his highly armed, artificially intelligent car track the black Cadillac that killed his brother.
Re: Re: Bu, bu, but . . . . Piracy!
"Hollywood would reasonably argue..."
Since when have Hollywood and reason ever been on speaking terms?
It's NOT just Amanda's fans bringing in new fans
When I get some time, I'm going to have to get some of her music for a "test drive." If it turns out I like it, chalk up another fan, drawn in by the publicy.
Eric Flint is right, lack of exposure, not piracy, is the Great Enemy.
Hollywood's *REAL* Business
They're so busy protecting the content that they simply don't *care* whether it's worth protecting or not.
Re: Byte my Bits!
Well said, sir!
"Programming Hero"
My wife uses the term derisively to describe coders who understand how the stuff works and when a problem arises, "Don't worry, dear, I'll take care of it for you." leaving her with no clue as to how the machine works or where the booby-traps are.
Yes, there is a fair gap between "Learn Perl in 24 hours" and building a professionally-polished system.
But keeping "the peasants" ignorant is the fastest way known to man to destroy a free society.
Poul Anderson once covered the whole thing.
"Then I remember it's the Adversary who is humorless. I'm sure God likes to laugh."
Real Objection to Kickstarter is: It undercuts the labels' control.
And that's really what all the brouhaha is about.
It's NOT just the Beatles.
Christopher Robin (the Christopher Robin) of Winnie-the-Pooh, is dead of extreme old age.
And thanks to Disney, the books, written in 1926 and 1927 are still in copyright, to serve the greed of our sociopathic corporate masters.
Feh.
He's right, you know.
More competition IS less efficient ... for him and AT&T.
Re:
Nah. They'll just go all Hollywood and blame it all on piracy.
Two Books Weren't Offered at $0.99
The other was "Aleph," at least on B&N.
I wonder how sales of THOSE books (consider them experimental controls) have fared during this time.
What the Author's Guild *really* wants.
Is some way to get us to pay each time we read a page whether we've read the page (or the book) before.
Re: Re: Crowd Policing
Not just the 1% crowd. There's a town in Southern California with a very bad record of having the same attitude. Hint: the name starts with "H".
Re: Re:
Sir. Your comment, on the awesome scale of 1 to 10, gets a solid 10.
Thank you.
People tend to see others as being like themselves.
Good people tend to see other people as also being good. Honest people tend to see other people as also being honest. Thieves tend to see other people as also being thieves.
Hollywood sees everybody as a thief. Care to guess what Hollywood's like inside? For objective evidence, BTW, look up "Hollywood Accounting" on Wikipedia.
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He doesn't have to. The publishing industry is doing a fine job without any assistance.
Barnes and Ignoble Screws Up
They do NOT have a "shopping cart" for Nook Books, and when you buy one, you have to sign in again for EACH book. I already had "The Alchemist," so I only had to do that TEN times.
BTW, oh Anonymous Coward, he traded dollars he'd never see from overpriced paper for dollars he WILL see from the eBooks.
And if I like the other books as well as I did "Alchemist" you can bet I'll be recommending them.
Run this phrase by me again, please.
"...figuring out how [Hollywood] can remain relevant."
I'm deeply puzzled by the word remain. My family and I get better and more diverse films from around the world via Netflix. Hollywood hasn't been relevant to us for a long (several years) time.
Re: Re: zing!
DO NOT FEED THE TROLL