Her's got completely scrapped during the time that her 'business' was under investigation.
So from 405 to 0, that's 'greatly reduced' in my view. (Yes initially it went from 405 to about 300 according to the article, but later on it went to 0.)
And since when is 'earning' $1.30 a day from ad-revenue on a blog considered work or even owning a business?
Mind you, she didn't earn $100 a week, she earned about $9.10 a week, but didn't get it each week. Google only pays out per $100.
Using the numbers from the article you get a picture like this:
Week 1-10: $0 extra income.
Week 11: $100 extra income.
Week 12-21: $0 extra income.
Week 22: $100 extra income.
Etc.
So after 11 weeks 'work' she got $100.
The bigger problem would be the contradicting info from the NY DOL.
One: Next up: EULAs on ticket sales forbidding taking photographs before/during/after the game inside the facility or the direct surroundings.
Two: The newspapers are wondering why they are losing the battle... Well, Washington Post, THIS is why you are losing the battle. By caving in to the Redskins, by not reporting the news, but wanting to pander to the big league businesses/sports-groups. They are not your boss, your READERS are your bosses. Start pandering to them, and give them a reason to buy your newspaper. You have an obligation to your readers not your subjects.
textbook A: in print version: $165(+shipping)
- You get to keep it for all eternity,
- you can use it for reference later,
- you can resell it.
textbook A: ebook version: $165
- It expires after 180 days,
- so you can't use it for reference later,
- let alone resell.
Now what would be my incentive to get the digital version? Other than that it might save a few trees, and that it's slightly cheaper in costs (but not in value)
Actually you already have to in that situation, as it's a public performance. Even just turning on a radio at the office counts as such, at least if you don't use earbuds/headphones.
Double billing is par for the course in music land. Radio station already paid a fee for the privilege of playing music on the air, and now businesses have to pay a fee for the privilege of listening to that radio station with your colleagues.
So Youtube already pays for the privilege of hosting (and spending bandwidth) a video owned by the music-cartel. And now you too will have to pay for the privilege of embedding that same video.
If they aren't clueless about technological matters, they are doing an amazing job hiding that.
Non-profit, yet they pay less to songwriters and artists than to their own staff members...
For a small(er) band, a large part of the cost for printing CDs are the fees you have to pay to organisations like the BUMA, and they get nothing back, as they aren't the big name. Only the big names and big labels get some money from organisations like the BUMA-Stemra. It's not worth it, but you have to pay for it, as cd-printers refuse to print discs, if it doesn't carry the BUMA stamp of approval.
This Buma-Stemra company was the same company that had invested it's collections badly, and had to report a loss over 2005 and 2007, thus it couldn't pay the songwriters. They are probably now trying to recoup that money over the backs of bloggers.
Thankfully politicians are asking questions about it (the Dutch green party has been on the forefront of this).
Oh and another juicy tidbit, the Buma-Stemra themselves said that the contract probably wouldn't stand up in court.
Quote from mr. Van Rij: "We think that it's legally sound, but a judge might decide otherwise." http://www.nu.nl/internet/2096726/onduidelijkheid-blijft-kosten-embedden.html (bottom of the article, sorry only in Dutch)
Middlemen like publishers (whether it's movies, books or music) will need to adapt indeed, otherwise they will die.
Instead of gobbling up rights left and right to the creative works (or try to 'create "talent"'), they should sell their services to artists.
Dear $Author,
you want your books to be proof-read? Here our services for x amount of money.
You want your works to be advertised as well, here are our prices:
- print magazine ad per month: $x.xx
- public speaking gig: $xxx.xx
- a spot in Oprah's book club: $xxxxx.xx
etc.
Where does it say that writers and artists are entitled to rich and fame off their books?
I work 40hours a week for my paycheck, and I can get by, I don't get famous for my work.
Now why would artists and writers be entitled to that?
Yes they made a creative work, and when I buy that work, they are entitled to my money. But only then.
Btw, why would making money of short stories via sponsorships make you a sell out? If the content is decent/good I see no problems with that.
Look, artists, writers and musicians can have other jobs next to their creativity. Pip Ballantine is a librarian, Tee Morris is a teacher, I believe. They write because they love to write, and I'm sure the extra income is very nice. I'm sure if they could live off their creative works, they'd do it. But nowhere is it written that they HAVE to live off their creative works.
If you are as an artist in it solely for the money, you are in the wrong business.
Personal anecdote. I've bought a number of books of the authors I've mentioned, even though I could get them for free, or in many cases, I've already listened to them.
They gave me a reason to buy, because I liked their stories, and I like what they are trying to do.
I donated through podiobooks.com (75% goes to the author) AND I paid for the books using their affiliate links.
I respectfully disagree.
With ebooks, as this is about that, you don't have the cost of paper, of ink, of printing presses, of distribution costs, of storage costs, etc.
So the production costs with ebooks go WAY down.
It's easy for any budding novelist to churn out ebooks left and right. The only problem with that market right now is that there is no definitive format. Sure you could put out a pdf, but not all readers understand PDF (for the Kindle for instance you need to convert the file).
Or you could go the DRM route (like Amazon's Kindle format versus the new Sony Epub standard, and with Amazon's provision, you can't have support for both DRM systems on 1 device, it's either thee Sony Epub DRM OR the Amazon mobipocket Kindle DRM scheme).
On CwF+RtB, ask JC Hutchins, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine, Scott Sigler (amongst others) how to do that. They even went a step further and released their novels as audiobooks/semi-audiodramas FOR FREE (on podiobooks.com and on their own feeds). They created their own market.
Or ask Cory Doctorow, who released a FREE drm-free ebook in almost every conceivable format (crowd-sourced) of every book he publishes.
You can download those books, or buy them through their Amazon affiliate link. (incidental bonus, the author gets extra cash if you use his/her Amazon affiliate link).
Re: Re: Re: Re: Probably in the expected ballpark, but -
But I think the key phrase in this, is that the people who committed suicide mentioned the high levels of stress of working within the company (according to the article)...
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Re: Reduced by 25% = "greatly"?
So from 405 to 0, that's 'greatly reduced' in my view. (Yes initially it went from 405 to about 300 according to the article, but later on it went to 0.)
And since when is 'earning' $1.30 a day from ad-revenue on a blog considered work or even owning a business?
Mind you, she didn't earn $100 a week, she earned about $9.10 a week, but didn't get it each week. Google only pays out per $100.
Using the numbers from the article you get a picture like this:
Week 1-10: $0 extra income.
Week 11: $100 extra income.
Week 12-21: $0 extra income.
Week 22: $100 extra income.
Etc.
So after 11 weeks 'work' she got $100.
The bigger problem would be the contradicting info from the NY DOL.
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sarcasm alert
"Of course you become pro after you start putting ads on there, you're making big moneys now!"
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091009/1317336479.shtml#c24
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Re:
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Re: Re:
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Two things
Two: The newspapers are wondering why they are losing the battle... Well, Washington Post, THIS is why you are losing the battle. By caving in to the Redskins, by not reporting the news, but wanting to pander to the big league businesses/sports-groups. They are not your boss, your READERS are your bosses. Start pandering to them, and give them a reason to buy your newspaper. You have an obligation to your readers not your subjects.
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Of course
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Re:
textbook A: in print version: $165(+shipping)
- You get to keep it for all eternity,
- you can use it for reference later,
- you can resell it.
textbook A: ebook version: $165
- It expires after 180 days,
- so you can't use it for reference later,
- let alone resell.
Now what would be my incentive to get the digital version? Other than that it might save a few trees, and that it's slightly cheaper in costs (but not in value)
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Re: Re: B/S indeed
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Re: PA systems next?
Double billing is par for the course in music land. Radio station already paid a fee for the privilege of playing music on the air, and now businesses have to pay a fee for the privilege of listening to that radio station with your colleagues.
So Youtube already pays for the privilege of hosting (and spending bandwidth) a video owned by the music-cartel. And now you too will have to pay for the privilege of embedding that same video.
It's greed, pure and simple...
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Re: collection societies
Non-profit, yet they pay less to songwriters and artists than to their own staff members...
For a small(er) band, a large part of the cost for printing CDs are the fees you have to pay to organisations like the BUMA, and they get nothing back, as they aren't the big name. Only the big names and big labels get some money from organisations like the BUMA-Stemra. It's not worth it, but you have to pay for it, as cd-printers refuse to print discs, if it doesn't carry the BUMA stamp of approval.
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B/S indeed
Thankfully politicians are asking questions about it (the Dutch green party has been on the forefront of this).
Oh and another juicy tidbit, the Buma-Stemra themselves said that the contract probably wouldn't stand up in court.
Quote from mr. Van Rij: "We think that it's legally sound, but a judge might decide otherwise."
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2096726/onduidelijkheid-blijft-kosten-embedden.html (bottom of the article, sorry only in Dutch)
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Re:
Thankfully some clever people already made scripts, .htaccess files and plugins to block the spider that B/S (aptly named business) will use.
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Re: The death of the publishing industry.
Instead of gobbling up rights left and right to the creative works (or try to 'create "talent"'), they should sell their services to artists.
Dear $Author,
you want your books to be proof-read? Here our services for x amount of money.
You want your works to be advertised as well, here are our prices:
- print magazine ad per month: $x.xx
- public speaking gig: $xxx.xx
- a spot in Oprah's book club: $xxxxx.xx
etc.
yours truly,
$poublishing_house
Same goes for music artists and movie studios.
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Re: Re: Re:
I work 40hours a week for my paycheck, and I can get by, I don't get famous for my work.
Now why would artists and writers be entitled to that?
Yes they made a creative work, and when I buy that work, they are entitled to my money. But only then.
Btw, why would making money of short stories via sponsorships make you a sell out? If the content is decent/good I see no problems with that.
Look, artists, writers and musicians can have other jobs next to their creativity. Pip Ballantine is a librarian, Tee Morris is a teacher, I believe. They write because they love to write, and I'm sure the extra income is very nice. I'm sure if they could live off their creative works, they'd do it. But nowhere is it written that they HAVE to live off their creative works.
If you are as an artist in it solely for the money, you are in the wrong business.
On the post: Oh No! Book Piracy Is Coming! Run And Hide!
Re: Re:
They gave me a reason to buy, because I liked their stories, and I like what they are trying to do.
I donated through podiobooks.com (75% goes to the author) AND I paid for the books using their affiliate links.
On the post: Oh No! Book Piracy Is Coming! Run And Hide!
Re:
With ebooks, as this is about that, you don't have the cost of paper, of ink, of printing presses, of distribution costs, of storage costs, etc.
So the production costs with ebooks go WAY down.
It's easy for any budding novelist to churn out ebooks left and right. The only problem with that market right now is that there is no definitive format. Sure you could put out a pdf, but not all readers understand PDF (for the Kindle for instance you need to convert the file).
Or you could go the DRM route (like Amazon's Kindle format versus the new Sony Epub standard, and with Amazon's provision, you can't have support for both DRM systems on 1 device, it's either thee Sony Epub DRM OR the Amazon mobipocket Kindle DRM scheme).
On CwF+RtB, ask JC Hutchins, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine, Scott Sigler (amongst others) how to do that. They even went a step further and released their novels as audiobooks/semi-audiodramas FOR FREE (on podiobooks.com and on their own feeds). They created their own market.
Or ask Cory Doctorow, who released a FREE drm-free ebook in almost every conceivable format (crowd-sourced) of every book he publishes.
You can download those books, or buy them through their Amazon affiliate link. (incidental bonus, the author gets extra cash if you use his/her Amazon affiliate link).
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Re: Re: Re:
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simple answer
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Probably in the expected ballpark, but -
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Re: I may be a little early but...
"Warner Music Has Court Order Techdirt To Reveal Anonymous singer"
:)
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