If you price it like a regular book, or if you put DRM on the ebook, or if you release the ebook even one day after the print version, then I will pirate it.
Cut the shit and you'll get my money, otherwise, you won't.
Moreover, cloud storage is exclusively for the stupid and gullible. Everyone equipped with sufficient computing clue knows that it's not only insecure, but it's being monitored by the relevant governments. If you want something kept securely and kept securely, you need to use strong encryption and keep it yourself.
1. I can upload encrypted files to the cloud.
2. Things I upload to the cloud are not things I'm trying to keep secure. They're things I want greater access to. I'm willing to trade the convenience of greater access for the risk of less security.
Lumping anyone who uses cloud storage as "stupid and gullible" is stupid and gullible.
It wouldn't be the first time someone was parted with their money over a perceived value of a product, even when there was no actual value. (Monster Cables, I'm looking at you) If he can get someone to pay for it, good for him.
You should be fired for your attitude. What kind of ass-backwards thought process brings you to the conclusion that one has to be a "writer" to use satire? Ignoring the fact that you're not making any sense, let's say that only writers can use satire; wouldn't a good place to learn to be a writer be in school?
If you really are a teacher, and I really hope you're not, the last thing you should be doing is discouraging harmless creativity.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences; you somehow managed to get that right, but last I checked, making fun of someone wasn't illegal.
If an adult can't handle a harmless meme joke by a few children, then we should be investigating the mental stability of the adult, not punishing the children.
The Constitution gives Congress the ability to give creators a limited monopoly, it does not mandate that they must. Tomorrow, congress could decide to abolish copyright. (Not that they would!)
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I wasn't trying to downplay editing, I was just saying that the road to computerized editing that is as good as a human, and we're already seeing the beginnings of this transition. 10 years ago someone probably said "when you can move a book across the world in 1 minute for less than a dollar, we'll have more relevant issues than... Blahblahblah." Yet, here we are.
I feel like we're all getting caught up in semantics to what a publisher is. I am pretty sure that the underlying point was the one I made above: that control is shifting away from middlemen, however useful, and back into the hands of the artist. This is a big deal.
I agree with you: several of the functions of a traditional publisher are still valuable resources for an aspiring writer. (I'm not sold on needing cover art, though.)
That being said, for how long will we need editors? Google's new editing software in google docs will consider context, e.g., "Can we meat for dinner?" will throw an error.
Marketing will always have a place, I'm sure, but the bigger you are, the easier it is to market.
The real meat of the topic is that there is a shift in power: writers won't submit their book to a publisher in the hopes that they pick it to publish, instead, writers will hire one or more people to fill the roles they need filled, and, well, press "Publish".
You're trying too hard, friend. You know what Mike is getting at: that we don't need to go to a publisher to publish something. You, for reasons that are pathetically obvious, latch on to semantics in an, again, pathetically obvious, attempt to discredit the author instead of arguing the point.
Please, if you have a point, lay it on the hypothetical table and let us judge it on its own merits.
I bet piracy would go down if people who were unsatisfied with games could return them for a full refund. I imagine it would work similarly with movies.
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If you price it like a regular book, or if you put DRM on the ebook, or if you release the ebook even one day after the print version, then I will pirate it.
Cut the shit and you'll get my money, otherwise, you won't.
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1. I can upload encrypted files to the cloud.
2. Things I upload to the cloud are not things I'm trying to keep secure. They're things I want greater access to. I'm willing to trade the convenience of greater access for the risk of less security.
Lumping anyone who uses cloud storage as "stupid and gullible" is stupid and gullible.
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More power to him
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They are, however, unfortunate.
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I'm not sure where "initiative" falls between those two, but it's definitely not as simple as you're suggesting.
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If you really are a teacher, and I really hope you're not, the last thing you should be doing is discouraging harmless creativity.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences; you somehow managed to get that right, but last I checked, making fun of someone wasn't illegal.
If an adult can't handle a harmless meme joke by a few children, then we should be investigating the mental stability of the adult, not punishing the children.
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Clearly file lockers have a flaw when put up against tryanny. Their death will surely spawn something harder to kill.
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I feel like we're all getting caught up in semantics to what a publisher is. I am pretty sure that the underlying point was the one I made above: that control is shifting away from middlemen, however useful, and back into the hands of the artist. This is a big deal.
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That being said, for how long will we need editors? Google's new editing software in google docs will consider context, e.g., "Can we meat for dinner?" will throw an error.
Marketing will always have a place, I'm sure, but the bigger you are, the easier it is to market.
The real meat of the topic is that there is a shift in power: writers won't submit their book to a publisher in the hopes that they pick it to publish, instead, writers will hire one or more people to fill the roles they need filled, and, well, press "Publish".
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Please, if you have a point, lay it on the hypothetical table and let us judge it on its own merits.
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Fair
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