bjr70’s Comments

• Feb 5th, 2014 @ 12:59pm

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  on Skinny Puppy Invoices US Government After It Played The Band's Music To Torture Gitmo Prisoners [Updated]
  Just wanted to check in as another huge Skinny Puppy fan. This makes me love them just a little bit more. I'll be seeing them again this month. I can't flippin' wait.
• Apr 18th, 2012 @ 10:19am

  Re: why bother with the conditional?

  on If Publishers Can't Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business
  For those of us who work for non-profits and who don't make much money but do this out of love this saddens me. We publish things other publishers won't touch like poets outside of the mainstream and regional histories, journals that allow others to expand on fellow scientists' work. We do good work, and we do it for the community. Not all of us are out to make money at any cost.
• Apr 18th, 2012 @ 9:54am

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  on If Publishers Can't Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business
  Once again I have to go back and say not all publishers are big commercial publishers. University presses are non-profit, we publish scholarly books that are used by researchers and students, as well as things like regional histories. We also publish scholarly journals which are many times made available for free through sites like Project Muse and JSTOR.
  
  We barely break even, people are definitely still reading our books, and we're absolutely not trying to crush the little guy. Please don't lump us into one homogeneous mass, because we're very, very different from our big commercial cousins. Things like this affect us too, and we still have costs to offset though we're not-for-profit institutions. We are no longer flush with subsidies from our guiding institutions, and we're doing the best we can to innovate and embrace digital technology.
  
  Publishing is not some monolithic establishment. There are many different kinds of publishers, and some of us are doing our best to work with our customers to find the right price and the right technologies.
• Apr 18th, 2012 @ 4:33am

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  on If Publishers Can't Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business
  I think everyone is forgetting the non-profit university presses - scholarly publishers who still have very real costs, but for whom the pricing on an ebook is crucial. We still must pay copyeditors, typesetters, marketing, etc, but our books are niche and will not sell hundreds of thousands of copies. By law we can't make a profit, but many are struggling in the new marketplace to break even. There are many costs associated with creating an ebook, and to be forced into losses with them are killing us.
• Mar 23rd, 2012 @ 7:55am

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  on Twilight Studio Issues Another Bogus Takedown, But Is Zazzle Partially To Blame?
  It's "lion and lamb" - that's a line in the book and the film:
  
  Edward: "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb."
  Bella: "What a stupid lamb."
  Edward: "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  
  My guess is Summit is being stupid and flagging stuff with those terms.
• Mar 20th, 2012 @ 9:41am

  (untitled comment) (as Bonnie)

  on Why Do The Labels Continue To Insist That 'Your Money Is No Good Here?'
  This has happened to me more than once. I've literally sat credit card in hand, trying to pay for music, only to be refused. What did I do when I exhausted every option to pay for the music? I fired up my bittorrent client and downloaded it. Screw em. If they won't take my money then screw them.
• Dec 2nd, 2011 @ 10:00am

  Re: Re: (as Bonnie)

  on Security Researcher Shows That -- Despite Carrier IQ's Claims To The Contrary -- CarrierIQ Records Keystrokes
  This Carrier IQ business was enough to get me motivated to root my phone and install the Cyanogen. Loving it so far.