Comments on: Kindle Oh, Kindle http://feliciaday.com/blog/kindle-oh-kindle Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:34:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: len http://feliciaday.com/blog/kindle-oh-kindle/comment-page-1#comment-11653 len Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:24:02 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=788#comment-11653 The musicians weren't keen on the idea either. Eventually you have to face up to the fact that the web is a copy machine. Anything digital gets copied with or without the permission of the owner. The musicians learned to deal with it and the prize for that was to lose a lot of intermediaries. The trick is still promotion, site management, server management or rent, ISP fees, copyright filings (if you must) and so on. The problem of the copyright is what exactly is it protecting in a copy machine. DRM doesn't work. You're fighting the human interface of the machine. You'll lose that one. So like anything else, it comes down to the distribution deal you make with the services that will host and manage your content for shred of the natch on the click. The web is a URL pump. All of the various representations from web pages to real-time 3D are essentially just ways to aggregate services to emulate presence. The musicians weren’t keen on the idea either. Eventually you have to face up to the fact that the web is a copy machine. Anything digital gets copied with or without the permission of the owner. The musicians learned to deal with it and the prize for that was to lose a lot of intermediaries. The trick is still promotion, site management, server management or rent, ISP fees, copyright filings (if you must) and so on. The problem of the copyright is what exactly is it protecting in a copy machine.

DRM doesn’t work. You’re fighting the human interface of the machine. You’ll lose that one.

So like anything else, it comes down to the distribution deal you make with the services that will host and manage your content for shred of the natch on the click. The web is a URL pump. All of the various representations from web pages to real-time 3D are essentially just ways to aggregate services to emulate presence.

]]> By: Rob Gregory Browne http://feliciaday.com/blog/kindle-oh-kindle/comment-page-1#comment-11651 Rob Gregory Browne Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:34:22 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=788#comment-11651 Giving it away does not feel natural for this writer. I like paying my mortgage. That said, there are writers like Cory Doctorow who give away their work and this apparently manages to stimulate sales. So.... ? rgb Giving it away does not feel natural for this writer. I like paying my mortgage.

That said, there are writers like Cory Doctorow who give away their work and this apparently manages to stimulate sales. So…. ?

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]]> By: len http://feliciaday.com/blog/kindle-oh-kindle/comment-page-1#comment-11642 len Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:03:16 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=788#comment-11642 Musicians were feelin' it long before the iPod and just after the graphics artists and two steps past the original writing communities, eg, email, then technical lists, then forums, then blogs, and so forth. The web works if you work it. It is a URL pump. Turning URLs into cash is the tricky bit, but no product no market no sale no pay. Development costs are still development costs if you need them. Bands don't if they are smart talented bands, but since we are musicians and therefore, dogs, some training period is required. OTW, it gets rid of intermediaries in the business model that we don't need and replaces is with ones we do. It replaces a franchise model with a service model. For writers, giving it away should feel natural. On the hero-as-bad-boy topic: have you ever compared the heros in the fantasy genres you like the Bollywood heros? Interesting differences there and in the heroines, and those play a major role in the changes of fortune between Hollywood and Bollywood at the moment at the level storytelling. The cinematic technique is stylish and they have better stories. The American fascination with sex and violence is wearing thin outside the country and inside it as well. Musicians were feelin’ it long before the iPod and just after the graphics artists and two steps past the original writing communities, eg, email, then technical lists, then forums, then blogs, and so forth.

The web works if you work it. It is a URL pump. Turning URLs into cash is the tricky bit, but no product no market no sale no pay. Development costs are still development costs if you need them. Bands don’t if they are smart talented bands, but since we are musicians and therefore, dogs, some training period is required.

OTW, it gets rid of intermediaries in the business model that we don’t need and replaces is with ones we do. It replaces a franchise model with a service model.

For writers, giving it away should feel natural.

On the hero-as-bad-boy topic: have you ever compared the heros in the fantasy genres you like the Bollywood heros? Interesting differences there and in the heroines, and those play a major role in the changes of fortune between Hollywood and Bollywood at the moment at the level storytelling. The cinematic technique is stylish and they have better stories. The American fascination with sex and violence is wearing thin outside the country and inside it as well.

]]> By: Rob Gregory Browne http://feliciaday.com/blog/kindle-oh-kindle/comment-page-1#comment-11641 Rob Gregory Browne Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:51:02 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=788#comment-11641 As a novelist I originally had mixed feelings about the Kindle. Much like, I guess, musicians must have felt when the iPod first came out. But then I realized that a) this is the future; a b) who cares how my books get out there as long as people read them? So I'm happy to say my books are going to Kindle. The first one is up, with the rest to follow shortly. Now I just have to get one of the units so I can read them... :) As for PDF support, I'm pretty sure my agent reads my manuscript in PDF on his Kindle. Maybe there's a conversion tool? rgb As a novelist I originally had mixed feelings about the Kindle. Much like, I guess, musicians must have felt when the iPod first came out.

But then I realized that a) this is the future; a b) who cares how my books get out there as long as people read them?

So I’m happy to say my books are going to Kindle. The first one is up, with the rest to follow shortly. Now I just have to get one of the units so I can read them… :)

As for PDF support, I’m pretty sure my agent reads my manuscript in PDF on his Kindle. Maybe there’s a conversion tool?

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]]> By: Felicia http://feliciaday.com/blog/kindle-oh-kindle/comment-page-1#comment-11640 Felicia Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:04:09 +0000 http://feliciaday.com/?p=788#comment-11640 I think I have some links tagged under "Kindle" in my delicious account. Also, if you check the Kindle top downlaoded there are lots of free ones there. Naomi Novick's book is free dl and a must read! I think I have some links tagged under “Kindle” in my delicious account. Also, if you check the Kindle top downlaoded there are lots of free ones there. Naomi Novick’s book is free dl and a must read!

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