[sdiy] Book about creator of Starwars sounds!

[Tom Wiltshire]

ROFL!

And the prize for longest rant goes to...

On 6 Apr 2012, at 00:02, KD KD wrote:

> 2012/4/5, Jonathan Schatz <jon at divisionbyzero.com>:
>> it's published via chronicle books who aren't really "greedy publishers" so
>> much as they are publishers willing to put out niche books in relatively
>> tiny runs of 1-2 thousand (like, for instance, a book that looks like it's
>> for kids but instead is about sound design). i just  grabbed it from amazon
>> for $24 (instead of stealing a copy which guarantees the book's author won't
>> get paid for their work). thanks,
>> -jon (married to an author who publishes via chronicle)
> 
> Hmm, "grabbing" books from Amazon and married to an author you say sort
> of to legitimize your moral/ethic flag waving into valid arguments! Well, there
> is a lot about Amazon:
> 
> http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/17/confessions-of-a-publisher-were-in-amazons-sights-and-theyre-going-to-kill-us/
> 
> http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0402/Amazon-hears-from-hometown-critics
> 
> 24usd really?So you basically support Amazon stealing by them dumping prices
> pushing other small publishers out of business! Do your wife know this? Guess
> what my local chain of book stores wanted 47eur!..
> 
> The smaller the niche you write for the less you get paid. Publishers
> want "hits"
> just as record companies does! Not everyone do or can do rows of Harry Potters!
> 
> Besides depends on the deals the author does with the publisher and what kind
> of publisher it is ,most likely this particular book is paid by the
> manuscript "once"
> and sales don't affect the author in anyway.
> 
> It isn't a secret that Amazon's financial success is partly based on its ability
> to take in money for selling merchandise before it has to pay its suppliers.
> Nice business practise?
> 
> So its silly you try to make a moral/ethical normative point about a
> ironic stealing
> joke here, reasons are many, one is not to long ago some users
> suggested download
> pirated material from now by FBI closed file share net! I didn't see
> you complain
> then? So much for authors benefits...hohumm! Dont forget to tell your
> wife about it!
> 
> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/pipermail/synth-diy/2010-September/027636.html
> http://www.megaupload.com/?c=premium
> 
> Snazelle couldn't even afford this old dusty book, you better tell him he's a
> thief and Paul Burns he's a damned crook who provided the links while your
> on swinging your moral axe Jonathan?
> 
> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/pipermail/synth-diy/2010-September/027611.html
> 
> Dave Dixon suggest stealing SPICE simulators! Oh dear!
> You really have to morally axe him down to now! Haha!
> 
> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/pipermail/synth-diy/2010-September/027707.html
> 
> I once bought Barrys book, in retrospect i should have stolen it
> because its now full of obsolete IC's! Whahaha! :)  What a fraud!
> 
> KD  (divorced to an best seller published by the greedy Hachette Livre company)
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