Re: Kindle Is The Same Thing ... Single-vendor Lockin
That's not actually true. Backing up your eBooks to your computer is officially supported. True, Amazon proved they can revoke your license -- but as long as you turn of your wireless connection, it's not an issue.
You can't lend books with Kindle at the moment, but I'd expect that they will follow the Nook's lead and make this an option in the next version.
Also, the "locked-in" to buying only from Amazon is not really true (it supports conversion from ePub and PDF using both official and unofficial tools), and it hasn't been true of iTunes for a long time (I don't use it often, but iTunes offers run-of-the-mill mp3s for almost all of its catalogue, right?)
You're 100% right about not being able to resell them, but, unfortunately, I seriously doubt this will ever become a reality for digital goods, since it's too easy for companies to prevent.
Avatar's story isn't horrible, just done a million times (Dances with Wolves, Shogun, The Last Samurai, etc.). Although, if your daughters are young enough, they may not be familiar with the whole white-enemy-goes-native story.
Also, why the heck are you begging your daughters? Tell them you're going to the movie and they don't really have any choice but to come with you :-D
Just because you create something doesn't mean people should be obligated to pay for it. Now, with that said, I think your assumption that people won't pay for music is false. Some people will be happy to pay for it. Some people won't, but many of those people will be happy to pay for concerts. Etc.
And even though the t-shirt/poster thing is not the best (or even that good, IMO) way to monetize your music, claiming that "I'm a musician" isn't really a justification for having to do the other stuff. If I'm a writer, I can't just say "I'm a writer," and get paid without having to dabble a little in promotion, law, business, etc. If I'm a director, I can't just say "I'm a director" and not have to deal with budget issues.
Actually, scratch that. You can. You can hire people to do it for you. But that's the trade off. You can do the auxiliary parts of the business yourself, and keep more of the profit, or you can hire people to do it for you and trade a little profit for less time effort (actually, this is more complex, as, in your case, hiring a graphic artist might give your tshirts/posters a higher quality, resulting in a higher profit).
I think you're mostly write, but there are objective ways to critique art. For instance, the quality of someone's writing may be subjective, but it's pretty easy to, objectively, identify some truly great writers, even if you don't personally enjoy reading them.
People always say this, but I honestly have always had a much better time playing console games than PC games. I can't remember the last time a PC game worked flawlessly, with no installation issues or crashes. On the other hand, console game errors are incredibly rare, at least as far as I've seen -- every once in a while you hear about a weird issue someone has that gets coverage. But nothing is more infuriating than waiting an hour for your PC game to install, booting it up and getting an "Unrecoverable error in file DX9178389. Shutting down. Error code 3c19."
Really, consoles have two main attributes that PC gaming has had a hard time matching: consistent hardware, so you're not getting unintelligible errors that prevent you from playing the game, and a uniform user account across all games to track things like friends, statistics, achievements, etc (Steam is close, but it's not near pervasive enough). They can't really do anything about the first problem, unfortunately, and the second one seems hard for any one company to tackle.
Not sure I agree with the premise. LOST is generally held up as an example of a watercooler show, but it's also one of the most DVR'd shows on television.
I agree with Faceless, Rowling is right on this one. Fanfiction is one thing; legal and should be encouraged. Selling the fanfiction and making money off of her ideas is WRONG and she has every right to make sure it doesn't happen.
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Re: Kindle Is The Same Thing ... Single-vendor Lockin
You can't lend books with Kindle at the moment, but I'd expect that they will follow the Nook's lead and make this an option in the next version.
Also, the "locked-in" to buying only from Amazon is not really true (it supports conversion from ePub and PDF using both official and unofficial tools), and it hasn't been true of iTunes for a long time (I don't use it often, but iTunes offers run-of-the-mill mp3s for almost all of its catalogue, right?)
You're 100% right about not being able to resell them, but, unfortunately, I seriously doubt this will ever become a reality for digital goods, since it's too easy for companies to prevent.
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Re: My plan for for the survival of the Labels
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Re: story first
Also, why the heck are you begging your daughters? Tell them you're going to the movie and they don't really have any choice but to come with you :-D
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Just because you create something doesn't mean people should be obligated to pay for it. Now, with that said, I think your assumption that people won't pay for music is false. Some people will be happy to pay for it. Some people won't, but many of those people will be happy to pay for concerts. Etc.
And even though the t-shirt/poster thing is not the best (or even that good, IMO) way to monetize your music, claiming that "I'm a musician" isn't really a justification for having to do the other stuff. If I'm a writer, I can't just say "I'm a writer," and get paid without having to dabble a little in promotion, law, business, etc. If I'm a director, I can't just say "I'm a director" and not have to deal with budget issues.
Actually, scratch that. You can. You can hire people to do it for you. But that's the trade off. You can do the auxiliary parts of the business yourself, and keep more of the profit, or you can hire people to do it for you and trade a little profit for less time effort (actually, this is more complex, as, in your case, hiring a graphic artist might give your tshirts/posters a higher quality, resulting in a higher profit).
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Re: good video
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Really, consoles have two main attributes that PC gaming has had a hard time matching: consistent hardware, so you're not getting unintelligible errors that prevent you from playing the game, and a uniform user account across all games to track things like friends, statistics, achievements, etc (Steam is close, but it's not near pervasive enough). They can't really do anything about the first problem, unfortunately, and the second one seems hard for any one company to tackle.
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Re: Activision is dying
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Hmm
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