[sdiy] OTA book on eBay

[cheater cheater]

On 10/12/05, Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/12/05, cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/12/05, Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...maybe a synth manufacturer who already has a credit card ordering
> > > scheme in place would want to take such a project on? The MOTM folks,
> > > perhaps?
> >
> > Doepfer? 8P
> >
> > j/k
> >
> >
> > Anyways, why is this Tim dude so craaaaazy about getting paid for what
> > he writes?
> > The subject matter isn't applicable widely enough to make a living out
> > of it... Maybe he should try electronic distribution instead...
> > cheaper to set up and a lot more cash goes his way, instead of for
> > production expenses
> >
> > cheers,
> > D. 8)
> >
> >
>
> Well, its Tom, not Tim who wrote the books

indeed I meant the Tom and not the Tim

8)

> (I WISH I had the circuitry
> experience to write those books). And whether the subject matter is widley
> applicable or not isn't the point. The point is, Thomas Henry put a lot of
> work into these books and he deserves to make a reasonable profit from
> selling them.

It's a bit like making towels with the initials TH and hoping to make
a living out of them, isn't it? ;-)

> Thomas has also done a lot of other things (like selling parts
> and posting schemos at MAP) that really helped the SDIY community.

I'm not negating his help, he surely is a great person. However, if
he's so fond of the SDIY community, why does it seem he puts money
over sharing?
Still, I acknowledge his work and wish he could make every penny he
needs. But pointing out that SDIY is a *difficult* and unreliable
market isn't really rocket science....

> I think
> it just comes down to us synth geeks kind of looking out for each other. I
> mean, if I saw someone selling unauthorized copies of Harry B's "Breadboard
> and BBD Audio Hi-Fi cookbook," I'd... well... I guess... to tell you the
> truth, I'm not quite sure just what the heck I'd do. ;)

I think it comes down to this:
1. can you get this elsewhere?
2. if you can, does it cost more than 1500% its real value?
3. if it does, do you still respect the maker/producer/writer enough
to look out for his rights to this piece?

note that 2 and 3 are not related to Tom.

> But seriously, there
> are several people on the list who make money from selling synth-related
> stuff, and I think we owe them our support wherever possible. Again, it's
> just synth geeks looking out for each other.

Indeed! Then tell me what's better for synth geeks:
1. book publisher gets abducted by UFO and book is lost forever
2. book publisher gets abducted by UFO and someone offers photocopies

again, entirely not connected to Tom!

> BTW, I think you're idea for electronic distribution is great!
>

You can reach this link over to Tom:
http://publishers.ebookscorporation.com/application.asp
8)

however, in the help, we read:

[Does Ebooks Corporation accept titles from individual authors?
[
[The overhead for managing an individual author account is massive and makes it
[difficult for us to provide the same level of service that an author
would experience
[if they were to work with us through an agent, a publisher or an aggregator who
[can better cater for the author's needs and provide us with more
titles for the same
[overhead. For this reason, we have rationalized our licensing
activities to focus on
[publishers, rather than authors and work through the traditional
supply chain with
[publishers or aggregators.

so I dunno....


cheers,
D      .          8)