tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199560982024-03-07T03:37:19.993-05:00Space Snark™ A blog by Rowena CherryRowena Cherry, author of humorous, snarky futuristic romances not set in the future, offers advice and opinions on matters of Craft and writing in general. <br>
A Space Snark™ blog.Rowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger346125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-10652795656318854892012-01-03T08:14:00.000-05:002012-01-03T08:14:18.151-05:00Sword Master Bob Anderson has passed.<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/bob-anderson-dead-sword-master-darth-vader_n_1179324.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D124264" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/bob-anderson-dead-sword-master-darth-vader_n_1179324.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl2|sec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D124264</a></span></span>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-74032725656931893262011-12-14T15:43:00.000-05:002011-12-14T15:43:30.845-05:00Mating Net: First Chapter read aloud<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwVNt7PjR9V-PcBHzGdmliutpfuGWvo7mVwGUziMI-J19d_WH2TVOv6eV57mBsnDBs-lY6OeXg4W0A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-60522669708238422032011-12-10T12:05:00.001-05:002011-12-11T07:38:43.053-05:00Politicians (Wyden, Issa) and the Press (CNBC) Protect Piracy<div class="marB20"><h1 class="cnbc_blghdln"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> An hour ago, Barnes and Noble emailed me (I subscribe) to let me know that Patricia Cornwell's latest book is now available for NOOK, presumably as of today, for $14.99.</span></span> </h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RNlX71w5JmL7bzYs3WtiLxbRu4kD_LBmyErIQcppHZmIkcsICBk2GorAJoE7cfDwkYRkOE72thfiyNZGW9WkUhlu5QIzPjk5HoPfTdjf8UEU4wXgJXz6vLRxhYHR4eEKj_B2ag/s1600/121161808.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RNlX71w5JmL7bzYs3WtiLxbRu4kD_LBmyErIQcppHZmIkcsICBk2GorAJoE7cfDwkYRkOE72thfiyNZGW9WkUhlu5QIzPjk5HoPfTdjf8UEU4wXgJXz6vLRxhYHR4eEKj_B2ag/s1600/121161808.JPG" /></a></div><h1 class="cnbc_blghdln"> </h1><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://e.bn.com/a/hBO42XjB8GcokB8e7KrNOuR825c/a1dser?EMAIL=rowenabeau@aol.com" style="color: #3b8f81; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b8f81;"><b>Red Mist (Kay<br />
Scarpetta Series #19)</b></span></a><br />
by Patricia Cornwell<br />
<b>$14.99 NOOK Price</b></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b></b></span></span></div><div class="marB20"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<h1 class="cnbc_blghdln"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> This surprised me, because four days ago, December 6th, one of the most unscrupulous pirates I follow (who is allegedly funded and supported by Filesonic.com, by Google, by Yahoo, and by SocialGo, and by corporate advertising) notified me that Red Mist is available free to their VIP subscribers who pay something around $10 for a lifetime of illegal links to ebooks uploaded to Filesonic.com</span></span></h1><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zPNbPGDSNmCmhRP17ZuOjE3hB9eez_1-cBmILFcXDOo?feat=embedwebsite"><img height="200" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2fclf_pUSyU/TtxCPajoqyI/AAAAAAAAl6c/jK19RrFNFgk/s200/Red_Mist_03.12.2011_1_57_50.jpg" width="129" /></a> <br />
<div style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Red Mist</b></span></div><div style="color: #f4cccc;"></div><div style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. </span></div><div style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The pirate appears to have lifted the publisher's blurb directly from Amazon. They routinely snag the best bits of Amazon reviews, as far as I can tell.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe Penguin knows why there are two covers for the same e-book.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now, this sort of piracy carried out by a foreign (probably British) pirate, using a foreign site (Filesonic) is, in my opinion, exactly the sort of freetardy that SOPA ought to slow down. The rival plans simply won't work. If an author finds her new release being published and distributed globally as a "freebie" by pirates four days before the official launch day, she might reasonably wish for her DMCA notice to be respected a day or so after sending it.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiting up to eighteen months for a take down is going to ruin careers... not to mention the fact that the Issa/Wyden scheme would impose Government fees on the wronged author, and would require her to stop writing and go to Washington to file documents and employ lawyers.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">(I have no right to assume anything on behalf of Ms Cornwell or her publisher. My comments are my own opinions based on two emails sent to me, each offering me access to her latest book.)</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Google, EFF, and other tech companies that make a great deal of money from monetizing and promoting websites without regard for whether or not the attractions on those sites are being distributed legally. SOPA would presumably encourage companies to be a bit more socially responsible.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile, the Press appears to be assisting the tech companies by writing sensational and misleading pieces as if they are news. In my opinion, one can simplify something to such an extent that it is a misrepresentation.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Hollywood" suggests that only the powerful movie business has a problem with piracy. Not true. E-Book authors are routinely overlooked and omitted from this debate, yet e-book authors might well be more damaged than most copyright owners by rampant internet piracy which shares hundreds of thousands of illegal copies of e-books via computers, social networking sites, smart phones, and torrents. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pitting a California Hill against a Californian Valley might tend to distance the issue.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Case in point:</span></span></div><h1 class="cnbc_blghdln" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anti-Piracy Bill Battle: Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley<span style="font-weight: normal;"> By: Julia Boorstin</span></span></h1></div><span class="cnbc_sbhd_comp" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837548/cid/97451"></a></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Ms Boorstin suggests that the issue at the heart of the debate is "how much companies should be held accountable for policing pirated material to which they might inadvertently link."</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">In my experience, when she states "inadvertently" Ms Boorstin is bending over backwards to be charitable. Lord Nelson "inadvertently" didn't see the signals that he did not want to see. Red flags are ignored today. However, the fact is that SOPA doesn't ask tech companies to "monitor" or "police" or "detect". It asks them to enforce their own published Terms Of Service (that qualify them for Safe Harbour) when an infraction is brought to their attention.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">In my opinion, they ought to enforce their own rules.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">By presenting the copyright debate as Hollywood vs Silicon Valley, Ms Boorstin manages to remove all human interest from the "story". The piece t<span style="font-size: x-small;">rivializes the importance of copyright to copyright owners, and the effect of copyright infringement to those who are tempted to</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> assume that everything on the internet is free regardless of wording such as "all rights reserved".</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">The proposed OPEN, (the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade) Act is worse than what we (authors and small independent actors) have now. It sets up a very expensive process for obtaining a remedy without any guarantee of improved results. There is still no compensation for copyright owners. The abuse continues for longer. A successful claim would result in a “cease and desist” order from the ITC, a cynical remedy, given that the rogue sites in question have already demonstrated their utter disregard for U.S. law and international norms.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">What are Wyden and Issa thinking? Well, there is a video on YouTube to shed light on that. They also shed</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">light on their true attitude toward Openness and Censorship on the Internet.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Try leaving a comment:</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TadQc3Vc5LQ&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TadQc3Vc5LQ&feature=youtu.be</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mVLx8AtEsk&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPD9FA00ECDB69E09E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mVLx8AtEsk&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=SPD9FA00ECDB69E09E</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1679515283">h</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t0Pl83_Apo&feature=relmfu">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t0Pl83_Apo&feature=relmfu</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Remember, these Senators are allegedly concerned about "censorship" on the Internet. They oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act because they want to keep the Internet "Open". How "open" is it to delete all dissenting (but civil) comments on a YouTube video?<br />
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</div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-76911855468522592562011-05-17T08:54:00.006-04:002011-05-17T12:53:47.130-04:00You'd Think EBay Would Smell A Rat<div style="color: #cccccc;">But no...</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/200000-EBOOKS-Ipod-laptop-Kindle-Ipad-reader-DVD-/110686519556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19c56e4104">200000 EBOOKS for Ipod laptop Kindle Ipad reader DVD !! | eBay</a></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/200000-EBOOKS-Ipod-laptop-Kindle-Ipad-reader-DVD-/110686519556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19c56e4104"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://cgi.ebay.com/200000-EBOOKS-Ipod-laptop-Kindle-Ipad-reader-DVD-/110686519556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19c56e4104</span></a></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do not believe this:</span><br />
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><i style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"ALL BOOKS ARE PUBLIC DOMAINED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE GNU AND THERE IS NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT"</span></i><br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Why doesn't eBay notice this contradictory claim?</span><br />
<i style="color: yellow;">"</i></span></span><i style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INCLUDES BEST SELLERS AND LEADING AUTHORS !</span></span></span></i></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">EBay obliges would-be sellers to publish lies.... if they are determined to sell ebooks.</span><br style="color: #cccccc;" /> </span></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Check the contents listed below. You can see that many of the books are most certainly NOT in the public domain.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Therefore, if you were to purchase this item (and I do NOT recommend that you do) you will automatically be</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">an infringer of copyright if you open any of the illegal files... plus, your identity will be known.</span><br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <br style="color: #eeeeee;" /> <span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">Each of these names in the list represents a folder on a CD sold by</span><br />
<br />
</span></span></span></span> <div style="color: #9fc5e8;">TORVALDS</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
<tr style="color: #ea9999;"><td>Steven Torver</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color: #9fc5e8;" width="435">Avon House, Westminster Road<br />
Cannock<br />
Staffordshire<br />
Staffordshire<br />
WS11 4RB<br />
United Kingdom</td><td style="color: #9fc5e8;" valign="top"><span class="mrpLabel">Phone:</span> 02476467515<br />
<span class="mrpLabel">Email:</span> fluffygoose@hotmail.co.uk</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;">This guy, by the way, has had 3 eBay identities, which suggests that eBay is well aware that he is a repeat infringer of copyright, yet, eBay allows him to remain in business.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/200000-EBOOKS-Ipod-laptop-Kindle-Ipad-reader-DVD-/110686519556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19c56e4104">http://cgi.ebay.com/200000-EBOOKS-Ipod-laptop-Kindle-Ipad-reader-DVD-/110686519556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19c56e4104</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;">CD 1<br />
Zane Grey<br />
Yvonne Navarro<br />
Yasutaka Tsutsui<br />
william sakespeare<br />
William Mark Simmons<br />
William Makepeace Thackeray<br />
William Harrison Ainsworth<br />
William Golding<br />
William Gibson<br />
William Blatty<br />
Wiliam Golding<br />
Wilbur Smith<br />
WEB Griffin<br />
Walter Scott<br />
Walter M Miller<br />
Walter John Williams<br />
Victor MacClure<br />
Victor Koman<br />
Vernor Vinge<br />
Various CD<br />
V.C Andrews<br />
Ursula K LeGuin<br />
Trudi Canavan<br />
TournamentTactics.pdf<br />
Tony Daniel<br />
Tom Easton<br />
Tom Clancy<br />
Titania Ladley<br />
Tim LaHaye<br />
Thomas More<br />
Thomas Harris<br />
Theodore Sturgeon<br />
The Way To My Dreams.pdf<br />
The secrets of David Blaine revealed pdf<br />
The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks - eBook.pdf<br />
Terry Pratchett<br />
Terry McGarry<br />
Terry Goodkind<br />
Terry Brooks<br />
Teresa Mead<br />
Susan Sizemore<br />
Sun Tzu<br />
Sue Grafton<br />
Steve Senn<br />
Stephen Lawhead<br />
Stephen Hawking<br />
Stephen Ambrose<br />
Stephanie Burke<br />
Stella & Audra Price<br />
Stefan Gagne<br />
Star Wars<br />
Spider Robinson<br />
Star Trek update<br />
Software Project Management For Dummies; Teresa Luckey, Joseph Phillips (Wiley, 2006).pdf<br />
Software Project Management For Dummies Oct 2006.pdf<br />
Snort for Dummies (2004).pdf<br />
Small Business Marketing for DUMmIES 2nd.pdf<br />
Small Business Financial Management Kit for DUMmIES.pdf<br />
Six Sigma For Dummies-0764567985.pdf<br />
sir arthur conan doyle<br />
Simon R Green<br />
Simon Green<br />
Shiloh Walker<br />
Sherrilyn Kenyon<br />
Sherri L. King<br />
Shelly Laurenston<br />
Service Oriented Architecture for DUMmIES.pdf<br />
Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies Nov 2006.pdf<br />
Secrets To Winning Cash Via Online Poker.pdf<br />
Seasonal Affective Disorder for DUMmIES.pdf<br />
Scotland for DUMmIES 4th.pdf<br />
Scanners for DUMmIES 2nd.pdf<br />
Sarbanes-Oxley for DUMmIES.pdf<br />
Sarah McCarty<br />
Sarah A. Hoyt<br />
Sara Renike<br />
Sandra Brown<br />
San Francisco For Dummies.pdf<br />
Salesforce com For Dummies.pdf<br />
SalesForce com for DUMmIES 2nd.pdf<br />
Sailing for DUMmIES 2nd.pdf<br />
Ryu Murakami<br />
Rudyard Kipling<br />
Roger Zelazny<br />
Robin Cook<br />
Roberts, Nora<br />
Robert Silverberg<br />
Robert Sheckley<br />
Robert Louis Stevenson<br />
Robert Jordan<br />
Robert J Sawyer<br />
Robert E Howard<br />
Robert Asprin<br />
Robert Adams<br />
Robert A Heinlein<br />
Rob Swigart<br />
Roald Dahl<br />
Rick Cook<br />
Richelle Mead<br />
Richard Preston<br />
Richard Matheson<br />
Richard Adams<br />
Rhyannon Byrd & Madison Hayes<br />
Rene Lyons<br />
Rebecca York<br />
Raymond E Feist<br />
Ray Bradbury<br />
Random Books<br />
Rachel Caine<br />
R.A Salvatore<br />
R A Lafferty<br />
Poker Brain - Texas Holdem Winning Strategy ebook.pdf<br />
Piers Anthony<br />
philippa gregory<br />
Philip K Dick<br />
Philip Jose Farmer<br />
Peter Robinson<br />
Peter F Hamilton<br />
Peter Benchley<br />
Perry Rhodan<br />
Paulo Coelho<br />
Patrick Tilley<br />
Patrick O'Brian<br />
Pat Cadigan<br />
Palm Pilot Files<br />
P G Wodehouse<br />
Oscar Wilde<br />
Orson Scott Card<br />
Octavia Butler<br />
O'Brian, Patrick<br />
Norman Spinrad<br />
Nora Roberts<br />
Nina Osier<br />
Nicholas Sparks<br />
Niccolo Machiavelli<br />
Neal Stephenson<br />
Neal Gaiman<br />
Nancy Friday<br />
Mike Resnick<br />
Michelle Miles<br />
Michele Bardsley<br />
Michael Moore<br />
Michael Crichton<br />
Michael A Burstein<br />
Mercedes Lackey<br />
McGraw.Hill.Make.Yourself.A.Millionaire.eBook-LiB.pdf<br />
McGraw Hill - Negotiating Skills for Managers Ebook-fly.pdf<br />
Mary Kirchoff<br />
Mary Janice Davidson<br />
Mary A. DeCarlo<br />
Martin Amis<br />
Martha C Sammons<br />
Marquis de Sade<br />
Mark Twain<br />
Mark Bowden<br />
Marion Zimmer Bradley<br />
Marion Chesney<br />
Marianne LaCroix<br />
Margaret Weis<br />
Margaret Atwood<br />
Mandy M. Roth<br />
Madonna<br />
Lynsay Sands<br />
Ludlum, Robert<br />
Lucy Monroe<br />
Louise Muhlbach<br />
Louisa May Alcott<br />
Lorie O Clare<br />
Lord Dunsany<br />
Lora Leigh<br />
Loius L'Amour<br />
Lloyd Alexander<br />
Lina Gardiner<br />
Lin Carter<br />
Lillian Jackson Braun<br />
Lilith Saintcrow<br />
Lewis Carroll<br />
Leo Tolstoy<br />
Lemony Snicket<br />
Lee Child<br />
Laurell K. Hamilton<br />
Larry Niven<br />
L.A. Banks<br />
L. Frank Baum<br />
L Sprague De Camp<br />
L Ron Hubbard<br />
Kurt Vonnegut<br />
Kurt Mahr<br />
Kresley Cole<br />
Kim Stanley Robinson<br />
Kim Harrison<br />
Keri Arthur<br />
Kenneth Robeson<br />
Ken Follett copy<br />
Ken Follett<br />
Kelley Armstrong<br />
Keith Laumer<br />
Keith Brooke<br />
Katie MacAlister<br />
Kathy Love<br />
Katherine MacLean<br />
Katherine Kurtz<br />
Kate Novak<br />
Kate Elliott<br />
Kate Chopin<br />
Karen Chance<br />
K. Allen Cross<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;">SUB FOLDERS... alphabetical, each containing multiple popular authors' folders.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<div style="color: #b6d7a8;">These are the B authors</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bain, David</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Baker, Naomi Novik, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Kage & Moorcock, Michael & Vandermeer, Jeff</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Baker, Gary</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bova, Ben</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Berman, Steve</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Blish, James</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Baker, Kenneth</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Barton, William H_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bear, Elizabeth</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brown, Simon</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bacigalupi, Paolo</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bredenberg, Jeff</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Burstein, Michael A_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Black, Holly</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bear, Greg</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Blumlein, Michael</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bertin, Eddy C_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bryenton, Drew Dale Daniel</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Broderick, Damien</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Baxter, Stephen</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Buettner, Robert</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brennan, Marie</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Barron, Laird</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bradley, Marion Zimmer</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brown, Fredric</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bester, Alfred</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bulmer, Kenneth</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bethke, Bruce & Day, Vox</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brackett, Leigh</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brunner, John</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bradbury, Ray</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Breton, William</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Blaylock, James P_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Buckell, Tobias S_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Buckley, Bob</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brin, David</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bain, Darrell</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Burgess, Anthony</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Busby, F. M_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Ballard, J.G_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bein, Steve</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brooks, Terry</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bryant, Edward</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Beckett, Chris</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Berry, Stephen William</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Burroughs, Edgar Rice</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bishop, Michael</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bertel, Erik John</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brotherton, Mike</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Baker, Kage</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Banks, Iain</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Ballantyne, Tony</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Braver, Gary</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brad Thor</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brown, Eric</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Barton, William</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Butcher, Jim</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Baker, Scott</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bailey, Dale</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Binder, Eando</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Burns, Stephen L_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Ballard, J. G_</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Ball, Brian</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Bruce, Bethke,</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Brust, Steven</div><div style="color: #b6d7a8;">Banks, Iain M_</div><br />
<div style="color: #ffe599;">These are the C authors</div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Carpenter, Humphrey</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chase, Robert R_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chiang, Ted</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Clarke, Brian J_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Campbell, Jack</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Cole, Everett B_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Cummings, Ray</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Cowdrey, Albert E_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Combs, Mike</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Collier, John</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Cooper, Edmund</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Compton, Stoney</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Czerneda, Julie</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Cornell, Paul</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Coppel, Alfred</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Cady, Jack</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Clarke, Arthur Charles</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Carver, Jeffrey A_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Clinton, Jeff</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chandra, C. K_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Carlson, Jeff</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chilson, Rob</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Carnell, John</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Clough, Brenda W_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chwedyk, Richard</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chandler, Tony John</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Castro, Adam-troy</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Corvidae, Elaine</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Charnas, Suzy McKee</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Clarke, Arthur C. & Lee, Gentry</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Clarke, Arthur C_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Clarke, Arthur C. & Ganim, Peter</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Coblentz, Stanton A_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Castle, Sarah K_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Cherryh, C. J_</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Card, Orson Scott</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chandler, A. Bertram</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Chadbourn, Mark</div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Casil, Amy Sterling</div><br />
<div style="color: #cfe2f3;">R authors</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Reichert, Mickey Zucker</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Resnick, Laura</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Robinson, Kim Stanley</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rocklynne, Ross</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Reeve, Laura E_</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Robinson, Spider</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rackham, John</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Robinson, Spider Robinson, Jeanne</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Roberson, Chris</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Roberts, Keith</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rome, David</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Robbins, David</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Robinson, Frank M_</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rusch, Kristine Kathryn</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rotsler, William</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rudolph, Mark</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Reynolds, Alastair</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rucker, Rudy</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Resnick, Mike & Robyn, Lezli</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rogers, Bruce Holland</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Robertson, R. Garcia y</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rosenblum, Mary</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rich, Harold Thompson</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Rickert, M_</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Richard Dreyfuss</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Resnick, Mike</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Riley, David B_</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Reed, Robert</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Reynolds, Mack</div><br />
<div style="color: #cccccc;">The DVDs include links to pirate sites for bonus reading!</div><br />
<div style="color: #cccccc;">Hidden in the e-book section is a J K Rowling folder.</div><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Harry_Potter_and_the_Half_Blood_Prince.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter 3 - Prisoner of Azkaban.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter 2 - The Chamber of Secrets.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">3 -Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Harry Potter 2 Chamber Of Secrets.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Harry Potter 4 Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter 1 - Sorcerer's Stone.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter 4 - The Goblet of Fire.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Harry Potter 1 Sorcerer's Stone.pdf</span> <br />
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<div style="color: #cccccc;">There is a James Patterson folder, too.</div><span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Beach House - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Cross.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Quickie.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">2nd Chance.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Violets Are Blue.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Cross Country.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Thriller_ Stories to Keep You Up All Nig.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Thriller_ Stories to Keep You Up All Nig - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Mary, Mary.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">THELAKEHOUSE_JAMES-PATTERSON.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">7th Heaven.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Lake House.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">5th Horseman.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Quickie - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Lifeguard.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Jester - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Season Of The Machete - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Kiss The Girls - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Judge & Jury.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">4th of July.txt</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Sundays at Tiffany's.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Step on a Crack.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Lake House - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Jester.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">When the Wind Blows - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 4 - The Final Warning - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">2nd Chance - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 3 - Saving the World and Other Extreme Sport.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 3 - Saving the World and Ot - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Big Bad Wolf - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Big Bad Wolf.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Double Cross - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Violets Are Blue - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Mary, Mary - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">James Patterson - Mastermind.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Beach House.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Hide and Seek - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 4 - The Final Warning.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">You've been Warned.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">When the Wind Blows.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Midnight Club.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Four Blind Mice - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Dangerous Days of Daniel X.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Fifth Horseman - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Kiss The Girls.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Hide and Seek.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Patterson, James - Hide and Seek.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Roses Are Red - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Step on a Crack - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 5 - Max.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Sail.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Run For Your Life.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">See How They Run - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Season Of The Machete.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Cat and Mouse - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Pop Goes The Weasel - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">See How They Run.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Honeymoon1.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Honeymoon - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Patterson, James - Honeymoon.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 2 - School's Out Forever.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 2 - School's Out Forever - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 1- The Angel Experiment.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Maximum Ride 1- The Angel Experiment - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">1st to Die.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The 6th Target - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Suzannes Diary for Nicholas.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Judge & Jury - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Beach Road - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Roses Are Red.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Cross - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Jack & Jill - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Double Cross.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">4th of July - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">3rd Degree.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">7th Heaven - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Four Blind Mice.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Beach Road.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Cradle and All - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Alex Cross 15 Trial.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Black Friday.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Jack & Jill.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Along Came a Spider.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Cat and Mouse.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">London Bridges - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">First to Die - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">London Bridges.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">8th Confession.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">list.txt</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Cradle and All.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">3rd Degree - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Midnight Club - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Pop Goes The Weasel.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">4th of July.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">6th Target.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Along Came a Spider - James Patterson.lrf</span><br />
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<div style="color: #cccccc;">The Twilight series is included several times.... this is because all these various</div><div style="color: #cccccc;">collections are sold and resold on eBay, I guess.</div><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">01 - Twilight.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.epub</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">03 - Eclipse.epub</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">01 - Twilight.epub</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">05 - Midnight Sun.epub</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">03 - Eclipse.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">04 - Breaking Dawn.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">04 - Breaking Dawn.epub</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">02 - New Moon.epub</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">05 - Midnight Sun.pdf</span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;">02 - New Moon.pdf</span><br />
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<div style="color: #cccccc;">Why on earth do the Publishers not do something about EBay and PayPal?<br />
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By the way, there are at least two auctions going on at the moment, and there have been similar auctions for at least the last month. <br />
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110686519556<br />
110677541082<br />
Look out for Private Auctions, also.<br />
Check the "Feedback" for comments from purchasers.</div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-1332337562906535532011-05-15T08:57:00.000-04:002011-05-15T08:57:45.308-04:00New Copyright Bill Targets ISPs, Search Engines | PCWorld Business Center<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227760/new_copyright_bill_targets_isps_search_engines.html">New Copyright Bill Targets ISPs, Search Engines | PCWorld Business Center</a><br /><br />Now, to find out how to get a court order!RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-14860958202164672862011-05-14T09:09:00.010-04:002023-05-26T08:59:18.950-04:00Post Removed<p>Dear Readers,</p><p>The original post from 2011 is no longer relevant, and I have removed it.</p><p>All the best,</p><p>Rowena Cherry<br /></p>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-7342871612141306802011-05-10T22:04:00.000-04:002011-05-10T22:04:02.054-04:00A Rant About Copyright InfringementCurrently, I am battling a site that is registered in France, China, and Russia. It is called wiredshelf.com and I understand that not only does it post e-books such as mine to entice booklovers to "subscribe" to a "subscription library" of 100,000 e-books (many of which are being advertised and possibly shared "free" without the consent, permission or compensation to the copyright owners) but it also allegedly abuses any credit card information supplied by would-be subscribers.<br />
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Wiredshelf.com looks legitimate. It turns up in searches on Google and Alexa. It is protected by various privacy-protect "fronts". <br />
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Wiredshelf is protected by Twitter. Twitter members may boast freely in tweets that they have added or uploaded copyrighted works, and direct all the world to wiredshelf.com. In response, Twitter insists on DMCAs for the copyright owners, takes two or more days about it, will not remove any link except those identified individually by actual copyright owners.<br />
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Moreover, Twitter threatens the very authors it is harming with exposure on Chilling Effects, and with lawsuits if they should dare to overstep the bounds.<br />
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EBay is awash with DVDs of e-books burned by amateurs and entrepreneurs who seem to believe that they can claim copyright on anything they can snag from a pirate site. EBay raises unbelievable hurdles to authors. Copyright owners must own specific types of accounts, they must be pre-registered, they must have access to faxes and printers... woe betide any copyright owner who happens to be travelling when she hears that her e-books are being illegally auctioned on eBay!<br />
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Copyright-infringing vendors keep their good reputations. EBayers who purchase illegal DVDs are not informed that they do not (as they were led to believe in the auctions) own the copyright to bestselling modern novels that they bought on EBay. Therefore, the same copyright infringing collections are sold over and over again in multiple auctions by increasing numbers of eBayers.<br />
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The same happens on other internet sites.<br />
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My works have been stolen, shared, sold without my permission, scanned, posted in libraries more times than I can count. My copyright has been directly infringed by SONY, AMAZON and indirectly infringed by Plunder, Astatalk, EBay, wiredshelf....<br />
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Congress and the Library of Congress must define what is a RED FLAG, and must oblige OSPs that want "Safe Harbor" to pay attention to and investigate warnings and reports from members of the public.<br />
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Something must be done to address the all-too-popular misconception that if an e-book is "freely" available on a pirate site or file sharing site, it must necessarily be "in the public domain". If the author is alive, she probably owns that copyright, in which case, no one else may claim copyright over that work.<br />
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Just because Google or Adbrite robots place respectable companies' advertisements on a site (for pay) does not confer necessary respectability on that site. It could still be infringing authors' and artists' and musicians; copyright.<br />
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Just because a hosting site has wording it its TOS and TOU that deplore and forbid copyright infringement and ostensibly threaten infringers with banning and loss of access does not mean that those sites follow through. It does not mean that sites like FILESONIC aren't paying a cash bounty for every unwitting illegal downloader who visits their site and steals a "free" movie, game, or e-book, or for every new subscriber who signs up for a paid premium account so that they can download more "freebies" faster, before the greedy publishers and producers find out that their work is being given away free, and send a take down notice.<br />
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At the moment, creators cannot afford to sue pirates, and the pirates know it. They post "Guides" to that effect on EBay. Piracy pays, because pirates (and PayPal and Google and the advertisement aggregators) keep making money until the pirates are caught, and when they are caught, they simply have to change an email address and start again.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
Rowena CherryRowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-73665244851112928542011-04-15T17:36:00.000-04:002011-04-15T17:36:22.099-04:00Looks Too Good To be True - Fraud / SOFTWARE PIRACY<a href="http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/fraudtypes/swpiracy.aspx">Looks Too Good To be True - Fraud / SOFTWARE PIRACY</a><br /><br />Here's a great online site to report piracy... of your own work, or of others.RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-2854533100973524712011-03-07T11:59:00.000-05:002011-03-07T11:59:11.941-05:00Scott Turow On Random House (reposted w. permission)<div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Random House, the largest trade book publisher in the U.S., announced last week that it is adopting the agency model for selling e-books. For readers and authors concerned about a diverse literary marketplace, this is welcome news, a chance for online bookselling to avoid the winner-take-all trap. Random House's move gives brick-and-mortar bookstores, many of which are now selling e-books but cannot afford to lose money on those sales, a fighting chance in the new print + digital landscape.</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">"Book retailers have faced extraordinary challenges in recent years," said Authors Guild President Scott Turow, "a double whammy of recession and a shift to digital books that had cut many stores out. For anyone who loves bookstores, this is the best news out of the publishing industry in a long time. Random House's move may prove to be a lifeline for some bookstores." </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Apple introduced the agency model into bookselling last year when it launched the iPad and the iBookstore. In January 2010, as Steve Jobs was announcing Apple's new device, Amazon controlled an estimated 90% of the U.S. e-book market. The price of entry into that market was steep: Amazon, using the reseller model for e-books, was routinely selling e-books at a substantial loss to build the market and to ward off competitors such as Barnes & Noble, which had just begun selling the Nook. As we described in last month's alert (<a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=0tdfkf9rornbim9efz1y2j19750w5&id2=l7x1itn59foojdw8rsfjhx91b40d1&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=byhcqvpajjtmxboamoczdsfwvikcbda&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.Cn6s.PAn-..WeNP.b..l.A8ha.a.TXVHpg.TXVHpg.VPUjvw" target="_blank">How Apple Saved Barnes & Noble. Probably.</a>): </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3; padding-left: 30px;">Apple wouldn't sell e-books under the reseller model that Amazon had been using to lock down the market. (Under that model, the publisher sells e-books to a reseller at a discount of about 50%. The reseller can then sell the e-book at any price, constrained only by antitrust law and the reseller's ability to absorb losses.) Instead, Apple would sell e-books under the same "agency model" it used for iPhone apps. Under the agency model, Apple acts as the publisher's agent, selling e-books at the price established by the publisher and taking a 30% commission on each sale. To participate, a publisher would have to agree to a set of ceilings on e-book prices, generally $12.99 or $13.99 for new books. A publisher would also have to agree not to sell to others under more favorable terms. </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3; padding-left: 30px;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3; padding-left: 30px;">If the agency model took hold, unfettered discounting of e-books would be out. Amazon would lose its ability to buy market share in a nascent, booming industry. </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Macmillan leapt at the agency model, and Amazon fought back. In a dramatic, week-long showdown, Amazon removed the buy buttons from print and digital editions of virtually all of Macmillan's books. Macmillan stood firm, and five of the big six trade publishers (all except Random House) quickly adopted the agency model. The Guild immediately backed the agency model as essential for creating a healthy, diverse e-book retailing environment, even though it would mean lower royalties for many authors in the near term. </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">Barnes & Noble benefitted more than anyone from publishers' adoption of the agency model. It still had to subsidize sales of many Random House titles to stay in the game with Amazon, but it didn't have to lose money on the sales of other titles. Barnes & Noble's share of the e-book market grew at a pace that surprised everyone in the industry and is now approaching 20%. </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">The biggest beneficiaries of Random House's shift to the agency model may be independent booksellers, many of which are now selling e-books through an arrangement with Google. While Barnes & Noble could absorb some losses in selling Random House e-books, this was out of the question for most independent booksellers. Many readers will soon be able to support their local booksellers when they buy e-books, without paying a stiff price for their loyalty.</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">"Getting local booksellers into the e-book game is essential," said Mr. Turow. "Equally essential, if e-books are going to help sustain a vibrant literary culture, is restoring the traditional division of proceeds between authors and publishers. Random House and other major publishers have a lot of work to do on that score."</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">For a discussion of e-book royalties, see <a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=0tdfkf9rornbim9efz1y2j19750w5&id2=k2c2bxs5dtmylfj8brpm5jo7udsbj&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=byhcqvpajjtmxboamoczdsfwvikcbda&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.Cn6s.PAn-..WeNP.b..l.A8ha.a.TXVHpg.TXVHpg.VPUjvw" target="_blank">E-Book Royalty Math: The House Always Wins</a> and <a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=0tdfkf9rornbim9efz1y2j19750w5&id2=gn2dn14o6z2vb02nprk2sq559yl9j&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=byhcqvpajjtmxboamoczdsfwvikcbda&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.Cn6s.PAn-..WeNP.b..l.A8ha.a.TXVHpg.TXVHpg.VPUjvw" target="_blank">The E-Book Royalty Mess: An Interim Fix</a>.</div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </div><div style="color: #cfe2f3;">--------------------------------<br />
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Here is a short URL for linking: <a href="http://tiny.cc/3o9fa" target="_blank">http://tiny.cc/3o9fa</a></div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-12724395760409441432011-03-06T06:46:00.000-05:002011-03-06T06:46:27.604-05:00Kindle e-book piracy accelerates | Fully Equipped - CNET ReviewsThe comments on this article are really thoughtful.<br /><br /><a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20033437-82.html?tag=mncol%3Bmlt_related">Kindle e-book piracy accelerates | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews</a>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-51701549306763234862011-03-06T06:27:00.000-05:002011-03-06T06:27:25.482-05:00Kindle e-book piracy accelerates | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews<a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-20033437-82.html?tag=mncol%3Bmlt_related">Kindle e-book piracy accelerates | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews</a>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-44869220437053009482011-03-06T06:25:00.000-05:002011-03-06T06:25:57.492-05:00Start-up hopes to profit from Kindle lending | Deep Tech - CNET NewsInteresting coverage of Amazon's e-book lending program.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20028137-264.html">Start-up hopes to profit from Kindle lending | Deep Tech - CNET News</a><br /><br />If a publisher or author wants the 70% level of commission, they<br />apparently are forced to allow "sharing".<br /><br />Those who don't want e-books "shared" must elect the 35% commission<br />level.RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-30829324416878949452011-03-02T09:33:00.000-05:002011-03-02T09:33:09.684-05:00The eBook User’s Bill of Rights | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-JanAbout 70 posts into the discussion, the Librarian's true motivation is revealed.<br />I will say this for her, she is an excellent self-promoter.<br /><br />Over the long term, I cannot see that her business model is in the public interest.<br />As Scott Turow pointed out, authors must have a financial incentive to write.<br /><br />If publishing e-books does not make financial sense, the quality of e-books will<br />deteriorate, and the field will be left to the vain and to the advertisers.<br /><br /><a href="http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/02/ebookrights.html/comment-page-2#comment-23475">The eBook User’s Bill of Rights | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan</a><br /><br />My response to Sarah was:<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">This is telling, Sarah. Thank you for sharing your true motivation.<br /><br />"Writing, and giving away my writing, helps others–which is why<br />I got into libraries in the first place. It also even helps me by raising my profile<br />and exposure, which leads to other paid engagements (like speaking and training).<br />This blog, which has always been free and CC-licensed, helped me get more paid gigs<br />than anything I was ever paid to write and that’s a fact."<br /><br />For you, writing isn't a career. It is an advertisement for your paid services.<br /><br />That is all very well, but some authors don't share your desire to make their living<br />as paid speakers and trainers. They want to write books, and be paid a fairly and<br />freely negotiated fraction of the price for which each copy of those books is legally sold.<br /><br />Each copy.<br /><br />Legally sold.<br /><br />In pursuit of your own paid career as a speaker and trainer, you arrogate to yourself<br />the right to demand that authors' private contracts are unilaterally renegotiated<br />without their consent.<br /><br />Why should anyone pay to be trained by you, or to hear you speak?<br />Doesn't knowledge want to be free?<br />Doesn't everyone in the world have the right to benefit from your wisdom<br />regardless of their ability to pay for the experience?<br />Do you allow your audiences to make audio and video recordings of your paid speeches<br />and training sessions, and to then sell or "share" those recordings of your paid work ...<br />without paying you?<br /><br />Possibly, you do. You might consider that great publicity, and for a time it could be.</blockquote><br />If Sarah truly and honestly "put her money where her mouth is", she would upload videos and audios of her<br />paid speeches and training sesssion etc. Free.<br /><br />Of course, in time, everyone who might have wanted to pay to hear her speak could more conveniently<br />access a free mp3 (or whatever) from the comfort of their internet connection.<br /><br />Then, Sarah would be walking a mile in the moccasins of the authors whose works she thinks should<br />be freely shared and resold.RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-70820568658282429482011-02-27T12:43:00.000-05:002011-02-27T12:43:08.994-05:00Illinois legislation impacting Amazon Associates Program? | The Whole Bird PoliticsWow!!!<br />Who knew that Amazon is an authority on what is unconstitutional ?<br /><br /><a href="http://thewholebird.net/content/illinois-legislation-impacting-amazon-associates-program-0">Illinois legislation impacting Amazon Associates Program? | The Whole Bird Politics</a><br /><br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Greetings from the Amazon Associates Program:<br /><br />We regret to inform you that the Illinois state legislature has passed<br />an unconstitutional tax collection scheme that,<br />if signed by Governor Quinn, would leave Amazon.com little choice<br />but to end its relationships with Illinois-based Associates. </blockquote><br />I am very surprised that a corporation is allowed to stir the pot in this way. My<br />understanding was that it is constitutional for the individual States to levy taxes<br />to meet their needs.<br /><br />I'm also surprised that Amazon affiliates aren't routinely taxed on their income from<br />sales referrals. Shouldn't there be some kind of tax forms... 1099s??<br /><br />As I see it, any income paid to affiliates is either taken out of Amazon's cut on sales,<br />or it is taken out of the publishers' and authors' cut. Since the author does not receive<br />that amount, the author isn't paying taxes on it.<br /><br />Someone ought to be paying taxes. I'm with Illinois on this. I think Michigan and Kentucky<br />and Florida ought to be taxing Amazon affiliates' income, too.RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-41400948530805895812011-02-16T08:22:00.000-05:002011-02-16T08:22:18.766-05:00Would the Bard Have Survived the Web? - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15turow.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212">Would the Bard Have Survived the Web? - NYTimes.com</a>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-1900531492259612362011-02-15T15:24:00.001-05:002011-02-15T15:36:44.123-05:00Snarking back at a pirate<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><tt> </tt></tt></pre><br />
After two or more years, YAHOO finally, apparently, did the right thing and parted ways with <br />
one of the worst alleged pirates on the internet.<br />
<br />
These people make $0.03 (three cents) from every download that they can trick <br />
booklovers, movie-lovers, music-lovers, magazine-lovers etc into illegally downloading. Also,<br />
they tell their audience that they, too, can make money by sharing movies, e-books, music that<br />
they do not own, and that they have downloaded illegally.<br />
<br />
They do not tell those innocent persons that the pirates will receive approximately 20% of<br />
the new members' commissions.<br />
<br />
Nor do they tell their victims that by illegally downloading copyrighted material, the victims<br />
in theory risk the possibility of prosecution, fines of up to $250,000 per file downloaded, and<br />
up to 5 years in prison.<br />
<br />
Okay. There's a slim chance that that would happen. Nevertheless, if you are going to "steal"<br />
("stealing" isn't the legally correct term for infringing copyright) copyrighted material, you<br />
ought to be given the opportunity to make an informed decision whether it is worth it.<br />
<br />
The "Free Book Club" was a club that infringed copyright, and encouraged others to do so.<br />
It infringed AMAZON's copyright, by snagging reviews, or substantial portions of AMAZON-owned <br />
reviews from the pages of books that were being legally sold on AMAZON.<br />
<br />
It infringed the publishers' copyright by posting copyrighted cover art.<br />
<br />
It provided links to a file hosting site, so that members of their club could follow the links<br />
and illegally download copyrighted works that had been illegally uploaded to that site in violation<br />
of the hosting site's terms of use, and the copyright of the true copyright owners.<br />
<br />
Make no mistake, just because one person has infringed copyright by uploading an in-copyright<br />
e-book, movie, tune, magazine, etc to a file-hosting site, that does not make a "stolen" work<br />
free and legal for everyone else to "steal".<br />
<br />
The work is still under copyright. The right to copy it, and distribute it still belongs to<br />
the author.<br />
<br />
<br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #ead1dc;">Subject: Book Club Newsletter (important, please read)</span><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><span style="color: #ead1dc;">From: Club Admin </span><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><span style="color: #ead1dc;">Dear Book Club Members </span><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><span style="color: #ead1dc;">We have closed the FreeBookClub at Yahoo Groups. </span><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><span style="color: #ead1dc;">This was due to an argument with Yahoo over our 'absolute' right to inform members of complimentary books etc., and even though we are not the hosts of these giveaways, we do not accept that we should told what we can or cannot say to our membership in an email newsletter. Yahoo has lost the plot! </span><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><span style="color: #ead1dc;">We are currently looking for a more reliable mailing service, but in the meantime, if you would like to continue to recieve notifications about new giveaways, please join our Google Group, using the form below. Hopefully they better understand our legal rights of free speech! </span><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><br style="color: #ead1dc;" /><span style="color: #ead1dc;">Regards, Club Admin </span></blockquote>The problem, I think, comes with these pirates' misunderstanding of what "free" and "complimentary"<br />
and "giveaway" mean.<br />
<br />
A book can be "complimentary" if it is given away by someone with the legal right to give it<br />
away. In the case of most of the works these pirates shared, the copyright owner probably did<br />
not voluntarily give it away. Is it logical that at the same time that "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"<br />
and "The Social Network" are on pay-per-view on TV, or even still running in cinemas, is it<br />
reasonable to believe that the film-makers want you to be able to get it free from FILESONIC?<br />
<br />
Personally, I wonder about the "free speech" issue. It might be a matter covered by the truth <br />
in advertising laws.<br />
<br />
Is there a legal difference between something "stolen" and something "free"?<br />
<br />
Where does solicitation to commit a crime begin?RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-90367609402872399622011-02-14T10:54:00.000-05:002011-02-14T10:54:25.908-05:00How to Prevent Sex on Mars: His and Hers Spaceships? - Study: Astronauts of the opposite sex are bound to have some<a href="http://www.newser.com/story/107722/how-to-prevent-sex-on-mars-his-and-hers-spaceships.html">How to Prevent Sex on Mars: His and Hers Spaceships? - Study: Astronauts of the opposite sex are bound to have some</a>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-40646587770096531412011-02-11T17:45:00.000-05:002011-02-11T17:45:06.811-05:00The E-Book Royalty Mess, courtesy of Authors' Guild<div style="color: #fff2cc;">The E-Book Royalty Mess: An Interim Fix</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">February 11, 2011. <em>To mark the one-year anniversary of the Great Blackout, Amazon's weeklong shut down of e-commerce for nearly all of Macmillan's titles, we're sending out a series of alerts on the state of e-books, authorship, and publishing. The first installment (<a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=2tot6sy1x70mealrws7vm3azf9ykt&id2=4hr2lcph383450puwfdom6ua839j6&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=brfyuuugrzbllocqoiiydohkjjbgbbh&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.Cneh.Oja1..VNZV.b..l.A7_x.a.TVYA6g.TVYA6g.Hcc8eg" target="_blank">"How Apple Saved Barnes & Noble. Probably."</a>) discussed the outcome, of that battle, which introduced a modicum of competition into the distribution of e-books. The second, (<a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=2tot6sy1x70mealrws7vm3azf9ykt&id2=acqqzxlseb0ppr9ylh1h2jdxk29yw&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=brfyuuugrzbllocqoiiydohkjjbgbbh&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.Cneh.Oja1..VNZV.b..l.A7_x.a.TVYA6g.TVYA6g.Hcc8eg" target="_blank">"E-Book Royalty Math: The House Always Wins"</a>) took up the long-simmering e-royalty debate, and showed that publishers generally do significantly better on e-book sales than on hardcover sales, while authors always do worse.</em></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><em>Today, we look at the implications of that disparity, and suggest an interim solution to minimize the harm to authors.</em></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Negotiating a publishing contract is frequently contentious, but authors have long been able to take comfort in this: once the contract is signed, the interests of the author and the publisher are largely aligned. If the publisher works to maximize its revenues, it will necessarily work to maximize the author's royalties. This is the heart of the traditional bargain, whereby the author licenses the publisher long-term, exclusive book rights in the world's largest book market in exchange for an advance and the promise of diligently working to the joint benefit of author and publisher.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Now, for the first time, publishers have strong incentives to work against the author's interests.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">As we discussed in our last alert, authors and publishers have traditionally acted as equal partners, splitting the net proceeds from book sales. Most sublicenses, for example, provide for a fifty-fifty split of proceeds, and the standard hardcover trade book royalty -- 15% of the retail price -- represented half of the net proceeds from selling the book when the standard was established.* But trade book publishers currently offer e-book royalties at precisely half what the terms of a traditional proceeds-sharing arrangement would dictate -- paying just 25% of net income on e-book sales. That's why the shift from hardcover to e-book sales is a win for publishers, a loss for authors.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>The Pushback </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">The publisher's standard reply to this -- which we heard yet again after last week's alert -- is a muddle, conflating fixed costs with variable costs. Let's address that before we move on.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">For any book, a publisher has two types of fixed costs: those attributable to the publisher's operations as a whole (office overhead, investments in infrastructure, etc.) and those attributable to the particular work (author's advance, editing, design). The variable costs for the book are the unit costs of production. These costs (print, paper, binding, returns, royalty) tell a publisher how much more it costs to get, say, 10,000 additional hardcover books to stores and sell them. The publisher's gross profit per unit (unit income minus unit costs) is the amount against which the author's royalties are traditionally and properly measured. With this sort of analysis, a publisher can compare the gross profitability per unit of, for example, a hardcover to a trade paperback edition.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Investments in technology change nothing. Publishers never argued, for example, that hardcover royalties needed to be cut when they began equipping their editorial and design staffs with expensive (at the time) personal computers, buying pricey computers and software for their designers, tying those computers together with ever-more-powerful Ethernet cables and routers, and hiring support staff to maintain it all. Publishers simply took their share of the gross profits from book sales and applied it to all of their costs, as they always have. What remains after deducting those costs is deemed the publisher's net profit. Similarly, authors take their share of the proceeds of their book sales and apply it to their overhead (food, clothing, shelter, and computer technology) and costs (their labor and out-of-pocket costs to write the manuscript). What remains is the author's net profit.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">The proper question is this: how much better off is a publisher if it sells a book, print or digital, than it is if it doesn't? That is what we measured. We then compared that to the author's print and digital royalties per book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Publisher's E-Gains + Author's E-Losses = E-Bias</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Applying standard trade hardcover and e-book terms to Kathryn Stockett's "The Help," David Baldacci's "Hell's Corner," and Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken," we found that publishers do far better by selling e-books than hardcovers (realizing "e-gains" of 27% to 77%), while the authors do much worse (suffering "e-losses" of 17% to 39%). Publishers can't help being influenced by the gains; e-bias will inevitably drive their decisions.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Some simplified examples show how e-bias plays out in publishing decisions:</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><em>1. Promotional Bias.</em> Assume a publisher is contemplating whether to invest a portion of a book's limited marketing budget in stimulating the sale of digital books (paying for featured placement in the Kindle or Nook stores, perhaps) or in encouraging print sales through a promotion at physical bookstores. Either way, the publisher expects the investment to boost sales by 1,000 copies. A sensible publisher would spend the money to promote digital books, pocketing an additional $1,570 to $4,170 on those sales compared to hardcover sales. Such a decision, however, would cost Ms. Stockett, Mr. Baldacci, and Ms. Hillenbrand $1,470, $1,570, and $670, respectively, in royalties.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><em>2. Print-Run Bias.</em> E-gains of 27% to 77% become irresistible when a publisher looks at risk-adjusted returns on investment, as any businessperson would. Once a book is typeset for print, the publisher must invest an additional $30,000 to have 10,000 hardcover books ready for sale, using the figures from our prior alert. Once the digital template is created and distributed to the major vendors, on the other hand, there is no additional cost to having the book ready for purchase by an unlimited number of customers. Even the encryption fee (50 cents per book, at most) isn't incurred until the reader purchases the book. In this environment a publisher is nearly certain to keep print runs as short as possible, risking unavailability at bookstores, in order to decrease overall risk and maximize the publisher's return on investment.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Publishers, in short, will work to increase e-book sales at the inevitable expense of hardcover sales, tilting more and more purchases toward e-books, and their lower royalties. Publishers, as sensible, profit-maximizing entities, will work against their authors' best interests.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>An Interim Solution: Negotiate an E-Royalty Floor</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">This won't go on forever. Bargain basement e-royalty rates are largely a result of negotiating indifference. The current industry standards for e-royalties began to gel a decade or so ago, when there was no e-book market to speak of. Authors and agents weren't willing to walk away from publishing contracts over a royalty clause that had little effect on the author's earnings.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Once the digital market gets large enough, authors with strong sales records won't put up with this: they'll go where they'll once again be paid as full partners in the exploitation of their creative work. That day is fast approaching, and would probably be here already, were it not for a tripwire in the contracts of thousands of in-print books. That tripwire? If the publisher increases its e-royalty rates for a new book, the e-royalty rates of countless in-print books from that publisher will automatically match the new rate or be subject to renegotiation.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">So, what's to be done in the meantime? Here's a solution that won't cascade through countless backlist books: soften the e-bias by eliminating the author's e-loss. That is, negotiate for an e-royalty floor tied to the prevailing print book royalty amount.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Turning again to our last alert for examples, here are the calculations of e-losses and e-gains without an e-royalty floor:</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>"The Help," by Kathryn Stockett </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Author's Standard Royalty: $3.75 hardcover; $2.28 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Author's E-Loss = -39%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Publisher's Margin: $4.75 hardcover; $6.32 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Publisher's E-Gain = +33%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>"Hell's Corner," by David Baldacci </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Author's Standard Royalty: $4.20 hardcover; $2.63 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Author's E-Loss = -37%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Publisher's Margin: $5.80 hardcover; $7.37 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Publisher's E-Gain = +27%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>"Unbroken," by Laura Hillenbrand </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Author's Standard Royalty: $4.05 hardcover; $3.38 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Author's E-Loss = -17%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Publisher's Margin: $5.45 hardcover; $9.62 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Publisher's E-Gain = +77%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Here are the calculations with an e-royalty floor:</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>"The Help," by Kathryn Stockett</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Author's Adjusted Royalty: $3.75 hardcover; $3.75 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Author's E-Loss = Zero</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Publisher's Margin: $4.75 hardcover; $4.85 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Publisher's E-Gain = +2%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>"Hell's Corner," by David Baldacci </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Author's Adjusted Royalty: $4.20 hardcover; $4.20 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Author's E-Loss = Zero </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Publisher's Margin: $5.80 hardcover; $5.80 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Publisher's E-Gain = Zero </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>"Unbroken," by Laura Hillenbrand </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Author's Adjusted Royalty: $4.05 hardcover; $4.05 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Author's E-Loss = Zero </strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">Publisher's Margin: $5.45 hardcover; $8.85 e-book.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><strong>Publisher's E-Gain = +62%</strong></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">While this wouldn't restore authors to full partnership status in the sale of their work, it would prevent them from being harmed as publishers try to maximize their revenues. This is only an interim solution, however. In the long run, authors will demand to be restored to full partnership, and someone will give them that status.</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"><em>Part 4 of this series will look at online piracy and book publishing. </em></div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">--------------------------------</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">*A traditional industry rule of thumb was that the price of a hardcover should be five or six times the cost of production. (John P. Dessauer, Book Publishing: What It Is, What It Does. R.R. Bowker 1974, p. 92). To keep the math simple, let's assume that it's priced at five times the cost of production, that there are no returns, and that the bookseller pays the publisher 50% of the list price for the book. Of the 50% the publisher receives, subtract 20% for the cost of production (one-fifth the retail price) and the net proceeds are 30% of the retail list price. Split that in two, and one arrives at the author's standard hardcover royalty, 15% of the retail list price. (A current rule of thumb is that the cost of producing a hardcover is about 15% of the retail price, but the actual costs vary widely.)</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> </div><div style="color: #fff2cc;">--------------------------------</div><div style="color: #fff2cc;"> <div>Feel free to forward, post, or tweet. Here is a short URL for linking: <a href="http://tiny.cc/0p0jb" target="_blank">http://tiny.cc/0p0jb</a></div></div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-41021758697200072082011-02-04T08:33:00.000-05:002011-02-04T08:33:16.615-05:00From The Authors' Guild<div style="color: #ffe599;"><strong>E-Book Royalty Math: The Big Tilt</strong></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">To mark the one-year anniversary of the Great Blackout, Amazon's weeklong shut down of e-commerce for nearly all of Macmillan's titles, we’re sending out a series of alerts this week and next on the state of e-books, authorship, and publishing. The first installment (<a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=bwj60m7rsy65h5xdzmd0ss4pynybr&id2=fch37c62r79notmhq4wr4rk5hzvoq&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=bobqedwpazytcivbkirhovvcjirobap&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.CnQb.OW6P..UwQB.b..l.A7kf.a.TUtjQg.TUtjQg.IR2LNg" target="_blank">“<u>How Apple Saved Barnes & Noble. Probably.</u>”</a>) discussed the outcome, one year later, of that battle. Today, we look at the e-royalty debate, which has been simmering for a while, but is likely to soon heat up as the e-book market grows.</span></em><em> </em></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">E-book royalty rates for major trade publishers have coalesced, for the moment, at 25% of the publisher’s receipts. As we’ve pointed out <a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=bwj60m7rsy65h5xdzmd0ss4pynybr&id2=fnepc6wi8710jnh0lxdbqmj9lor5w&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=bobqedwpazytcivbkirhovvcjirobap&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.CnQb.OW6P..UwQB.b..l.A7kf.a.TUtjQg.TUtjQg.IR2LNg" target="_blank"><u>previously</u></a>, this is contrary to longstanding tradition in trade book publishing, in which authors and publishers effectively split the net proceeds of book sales (that's how the industry arrived at the standard hardcover royalty rate of 15% of list price). Among the ills of this radical pay cut is the distorting effect it has on publishers’ incentives: publishers generally do significantly better on e-book sales than they do on hardcover sales. Authors, on the other hand, <em>always</em></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> do worse.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How much better for the publisher and how much worse for the author? Here are examples of author’s royalties compared to publisher’s gross profit (income per copy minus expenses per copy), calculated using industry-standard contract terms:</span> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></strong></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s Standard Royalty: $3.75 hardcover; $2.28 e-book. <strong>Author’s E-Loss = -39%</strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.5pt;"> </span></strong></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publisher</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s Margin: $4.75 hardcover; $6.32 e-book. <strong>Publisher’s E-Gain = +33%</strong></span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Hell’s Corner,” by David Baldacci</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></strong></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author's Standard Royalty: $4.20 hardcover; $2.63 e-book. <strong>Author’s E-Loss = -37%</strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.5pt;"> </span></strong></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publisher</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s Margin: $5.80 hardcover; $7.37 e-book. <strong>Publisher’s E-Gain = +27%</strong></span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></strong></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s Standard Royalty: $4.05 hardcover; $3.38 e-book. <strong>Author’s E-Loss = -17%</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.5pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publisher</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">s Margin: $5.45 hardcover; $9.62 e-book. <strong>Publisher’s E-Gain = +77%</strong></span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">So, everything else being equal, publishers will naturally have a strong bias toward e-book sales. It certainly does wonders for cash flow: not only does the publisher net more, but the reduced royalty means that every time an e-book purchase displaces a hardcover purchase, the odds that the author’s advance will earn out -- and the publisher will have to cut a check for royalties -- diminishes. In more ways than one, the author’s e-loss is the publisher’s e-gain.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Inertia, unfortunately, is embedded in the contractual landscape. If the publisher were to offer more equitable e-royalties in new contracts, it would ripple through much of the publisher’s catalog: most major trade publishers have thousands of contracts that require an automatic adjustment or renegotiation of e-book royalties if the publisher starts offering better terms. (Some publishers finesse this issue when they amend older contracts, many of which allow e-royalty rates to quickly escalate to 40% of the publisher’s receipts. Amending old contracts to grant the publisher digital rights doesn’t trigger the automatic adjustment, in the publisher's view.) Given these substantial collateral costs, publishers will continue to strongly resist changes to their e-book royalties for new books.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Resistance, in the long run, will be futile. As the e-book market continues to grow, competitive pressures will almost certainly force publishers to share e-book proceeds fairly. Authors with clout simply won’t put up with junior partner status in an increasingly important market. New publishers are already willing to share fairly. Once one of those publishers has the capital to pay even a handful of authors meaningful advances, or a major trade publisher decides to take the plunge, the tipping point will likely be at hand.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In the meantime, what’s to be done? We’ll address that in our next installment in this series, on Monday.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Our assumptions and calculations for the figures above follow.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">--------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></strong></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong>Doing the Numbers: Hardcover</strong></span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">To keep things as simple as possible, we assumed that for hardcovers: (1) the publisher sells at an average 50% discount to the wholesaler or retailer (2) the royalty rate is 15% of list price (as it is for most hardcover books, after 10,000 units are sold), (3) the average marginal cost to manufacture the book and get it to the store is $3, and (4) the return rate is 25% (a handy number -- if one of four books produced is returned, then the $3 marginal cost of producing the book is spread over three other books, giving us a return cost of $1 per book). We also rounded up retail list price a few pennies to give us easy figures to work with.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett has a hardcover retail list price of $25. The standard royalty (15% of list) would be $3.75. The publisher grosses $12.50 per book at a 50% discount. Subtract from that the author's royalty ($3.75), cost of production ($3), and cost of returns ($1), and the publisher nets $4.75 on the sale of a hardcover book.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Hell’s Corner” by David Baldacci, has a retail list price is $28. The standard royalty is $4.20; the publisher's gross is $14. Subtract royalties ($4.20), production and return costs ($4), and the publisher nets $5.80.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Unbroken,” by Laura Hillenbrand has a hardcover list price of $27. Standard royalties are $4.05. The publisher's gross is $13.50. Subtract royalties of $4.05 and production and return costs of $4, and the publisher nets $5.45.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong>Doing the Numbers: E-Book</strong></span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">E-book royalty rates are uniform among the major trade publishers, but pricing and discounting formulas fall into two camps: the reseller model favored by Amazon (Random House is the only large trade publisher using this model) and the agency model introduced by Apple a year ago. (See <a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=bwj60m7rsy65h5xdzmd0ss4pynybr&id2=elt3mekm3f0h46cb0zz490r0j7tpf&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=bobqedwpazytcivbkirhovvcjirobap&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.CnQb.OW6P..UwQB.b..l.A7kf.a.TUtjQg.TUtjQg.IR2LNg" target="_blank"><u>yesterday’s alert</u></a> for more information on these models.)</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Under the reseller model, the online bookseller pays 50% of the retail list price of the book to the publisher and sells the book at whatever price the bookseller chooses (for bestsellers, Amazon typically sells Random House e-books at a significant loss). Random House frequently prices the e-book at the same price as the hardcover until a paperback edition is available.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Under the agency model, the online bookseller pays 70% of the retail list price of the e-book to the publisher. The bookseller, acting as the publisher’s agent, sells the e-book at the price established by the publisher, but the publisher is constrained by agreement with Apple and others to set a price significantly below that for the hardcover version.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The unit costs to the publisher, under either model, are simply the author’s royalty and the encryption fee, for which we’ll use a generous 50 cents per unit.</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Here’s the math:</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“The Help” has an e-book list price of $13 and is sold under the agency model. Publisher grosses 70% of retail price, or $9.10. Author's royalty is 25% of publisher receipts, or $2.28. Publisher nets $6.32. ($9.10 minus $2.28 royalties and $0.50 encryption fee.)</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Hell’s Corner” is also sold under the agency model at a retail list price of $15 list price. Publisher grosses 70% of retail price, $10.50. Author's royalty is 25% of publisher receipts, or $2.63. Publisher nets $7.37. ($10.50 minus $2.63 royalties and $0.50 encryption fee.)</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Unbroken” is sold by Random House under the reseller model at a retail list price of $27. Publisher grosses $13.50 on the sale. Author’s royalty, at 25%, is $3.38. Random House nets $9.62. ($13.50 minus $3.38 royalties and $0.50 encryption fee.)</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;"> </div><div style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">------------</span></div><div style="color: #ffe599;">Feel free to forward, post, or tweet. Here is a short URL for linking: <a href="http://tiny.cc/r71q0" target="_blank">http://tiny.cc/r71q0</a></div><span style="color: black;"><span class="bmfooter"><br />
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Occasionally, I try to solve the business world's problems, and if I can stick it to Amazon at the same time, well, that's all right with me.<br />
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Last night, I was seething --as I often do-- about the problem of certain Yahoogroups that persistently infringe copyright, and that YAHOO refuses to remove despite the OCILLA issues. However, writers, authors, readers all love Yahoogroups.<br />
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We booklovers love Yahoogroups! If only Yahoo saw the competitive advantage in being ethical!<br />
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Copyright infringement is a huge and growing problem. Facebook, Twitter, Google follow the law, more or less, but they are not exactly proactive about it.<br />
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What if readers could trust that "IF IT IS ON YAHOO, IT IS LEGAL"? (This isn't the case right now, but it could be. Authors would be delighted to help Yahoo clean up the few rotters among its groups, if it wanted to do so.)<br />
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Amazon doesn't allow freelance authors to give away free e-books and free novellas on Amazon's DTP platform. Yahoo could. Why doesn't Yahoo look into it? "IF IT IS ON YAHOO, IT IS LEGAL".<br />
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Borders is another company that, from a stock market perspective, appears to be struggling. It, too, is a 'ME TOO'.<br />
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But, what if Borders and Yahoo got together?<br />
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Yahoo has the platforms and the booklovers yahoogroups, and the languishing search engine, and the Yahoo Answers. Borders still has the bookstores, and the contacts with publishers, and the name, and the good will, and the payment structure.<br />
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Do you think that a Borders-Yahoo match-up could provide real competition for AMAZON?<br />
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Borders+Yahoo could be a rival for Amazon and Shelfari, and EBay/PayPal.<br />
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Borders+Yahoo could transform the bricks and mortar stores into fantastic, book-related internet cafes, and if they worked with NCR, they could do download/POD right there in the stores, and avoid enriching the Post Office.<br />
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What do you think?RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-1281806015900558072011-01-03T13:14:00.001-05:002011-02-04T08:38:13.405-05:00From Authors Guild<div><strong>How Apple Saved Barnes & Noble. Probably.</strong><em> </em></div><div> </div><div><em>Happy blackout anniversary! Where were you when the lights went out? We're sending out a series of alerts this week and next that look at the state of e-books, authorship and publishing to mark the one-year anniversary of the Great Blackout, when Amazon attempted to protect its near complete dominance of the rapidly growing e-book market through a stunning, punitive act against a publisher that dared to challenge its terms. (To see our account of this showdown as it happened -- posted last Groundhog Day -- go to <a href="http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=896&id=62sjiidllgoiuofkgq8lx5uo8sets&id2=06d9uum1awcmtfqfm3qa7u9tj59mp&subscriber_id=bhlmgeswggapszqzfkagvxfzinbjbcg&delivery_id=avsjnmkjstnmudpyhaxjsayhjafhbnb&tid=3.A4A.BBAJXg.CnOE.OU_t..Uryr.b..l.A7kf.a.TUnM-w.TUnM-w.LhglgQ" target="_blank">"The Right Battle at the Right Time."</a>)</em></div><div> </div><div>It was one year ago last Saturday that Amazon turned out the lights on nearly all of Macmillan's books, removing the "buy buttons" from the print and electronic editions of thousands of titles. Macmillan authors, many of whom had linked their websites to Amazon pages that were suddenly disabled and useless, found themselves cut off from readers who frequented the dominant online bookstore.</div><div> </div><div>Amazon's stunning move was a preemptive strike, an attempt to keep Macmillan from going through with its plan to shift to an "agency model" for selling e-books. Macmillan, which immediately saw its online sales plummet, stood firm and prevailed: Amazon ended the blackout after a week.</div><div> </div><div>The story of the blackout and its aftermath reveals much about the high-stakes device and format war that's reshaping the publishing industry. Last year's Amazon-Macmillan showdown was a critical battle in that war.<strong> </strong></div><div> </div><div><strong>One Year Ago: Amazon's 90% E-Book Market Share</strong></div><div> </div><div>By last January, Amazon seemed destined to retain an overwhelming share of the e-book market. It then, by most accounts, commanded about 90% of the U.S. trade e-book market. Barnes & Noble had entered the game just two months before, launching the Nook in time, barely, for the critical holiday season. Few in the industry were optimistic about Barnes & Noble's e-book efforts, however.</div><div> </div><div>Amazon's strategy, it seemed clear, was to leverage its formidable advantages -- including its dominance of the online print book market -- to all but lock up the e-book market. If it was successful, Amazon would control the equivalent of a vast online book club. Any publisher wanting to sell to the club would have to agree to Amazon's terms. This was an ugly prospect: book clubs tend to be resilient, but ultra low-margin enterprises for all involved, except the proprietor.</div><div> </div><div>Amazon went all-in with the Kindle and its proprietary e-reading software. This commitment was most evident on Amazon's home page -- surely the most valuable retail space on the Internet -- on which it featured the Kindle nearly every day since its launch.</div><div> </div><div>Amazon's most potent weapon in the e-book format and device war, however, was the strategy it deployed so effectively in its conquest of online bookselling: using its seemingly limitless financial resources to discount books at rates no competitor could long sustain. Amazon now pushed this tactic to a new level, routinely buying e-books at wholesale prices of $13 and $14 and immediately selling them at a loss, for $9.99. This not only built customer enthusiasm for the Kindle and e-books, but helped crush online and offline competitors that were selling physical books. Amazon could win the future as it finished off the past.</div><div> </div><div>The prospects for Barnes & Noble in this environment were decidedly grim. Its net income had plummeted during the recession, falling 65% in two years. For Amazon, however, it was as if the Great Recession hadn't happened. Its revenues had grown 65% and its net income increased 72% over the prior two years. Its market capitalization, which had climbed past $55 billion (it stands at $77 billion today), towered over Barnes & Noble's $1 billion.</div><div> </div><div>The e-book market, by all appearances, was for sale to the highest bidder -- the retailer willing and able to sell the most digital books at a loss. Barnes & Noble was in no shape to compete against Amazon in that game.</div><div> </div><div>Then the game shifted.<strong> </strong></div><div> </div><div><strong>Enter Apple</strong></div><div> </div><div>On Wednesday, January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs announced the launch of the iPad and the iBookstore.</div><div> </div><div>Apple wouldn't sell e-books under the reseller model that Amazon had been using to lock down the market. (Under that model, the publisher sells e-books to a reseller at a discount of about 50%. The reseller can then sell the e-book at any price, constrained only by antitrust law and the reseller's ability to absorb losses.) Instead, Apple would sell e-books under the same "agency model" it used for iPhone apps. Under the agency model, Apple acts as the publisher's agent, selling e-books at the price established by the publisher and taking a 30% commission on each sale. To participate, a publisher would have to agree to a set of ceilings on e-book prices, generally $12.99 or $13.99 for new books. A publisher would also have to agree not to sell to others under more favorable terms.</div><div> </div><div>If the agency model took hold, unfettered discounting of e-books would be out. Amazon would lose its ability to buy market share in a nascent, booming industry.</div><div> </div><div>Five of the big six trade publishers (not Random House) allowed their logos to be displayed at Apple's iPad announcement. The next day, Thursday, Macmillan CEO John Sargent informed Amazon that it would be shifting to the agency model when the iPad was released. It appears that he was the first publisher to do so.</div><div> </div><div>If there were any doubts about the stakes in this battle, they were erased the following day, when Amazon retaliated by removing the buy buttons from all Macmillan titles (with exceptions for textbooks and scholarly books, where Amazon faced stiff online competition). It removed the buy buttons from all editions -- not just the electronic version -- in an attempt to use its clout in the print book industry to enforce its preferred business model in the e-book industry.</div><div> </div><div>Though the e-book market was growing fast, cutting off Macmillan and its authors from Amazon's print book market -- Amazon controlled an estimated 75% of online trade book print sales in the U.S. at the time -- was far more punitive than just severing Macmillan's ties to the e-book market. Amazon had used this buy button removal tactic before to punish publishers in the U.S. and the U.K. who fail to fall in line with Amazon's business plans, but it had never done so as boldly or comprehensively.</div><div> </div><div>Amazon blinked, perhaps after consulting with antitrust counsel. After a one-week blackout, Amazon and Macmillan came to terms, and Macmillan could sell e-books through Amazon using the agency model. Four of the other big six would come to terms with Amazon on the agency model. Random House, the largest trade publisher, has chosen not to use the agency model, for reasons we will describe in the future (hint: Stieg Larsson).<strong> </strong></div><div> </div><div><strong>One Year Later</strong></div><div> </div><div>Barnes & Noble is, unexpectedly, the biggest beneficiary of Apple's entry into the e-book market. With five of the big six trade book publishers using the agency model, Barnes & Noble was able to enter the e-book market based largely on its customer relationships and on technological innovation, rather than on its willingness to burn through capital to subsidize book sales. Its share of the e-book market has grown rapidly over the past year, approaching 20% of trade sales. Its introduction of the Nook Color reportedly gave it a substantial lift over the holidays.</div><div> </div><div>Barnes & Noble still finds itself subsidizing sales of Random House e-books -- it generally matches Amazon's price on those titles -- but those costs appear manageable. Barnes & Noble faces substantial challenges, as do all physical bookstores, as publishing moves to its partly digital future, but it appears to have regained its footing. Should the agency model ever collapse, however, Barnes & Noble could quickly find itself at Amazon's mercy. Amazon's growth and profitability continue to soar, and its appetite for out-discounting competitors at any cost appears undiminished.</div><div> </div><div>In the meantime, Apple is not standing still. According to numerous, but conflicting, reports Apple may be revising the terms for booksellers using iPhone and iPad apps as e-readers. We will be watching these developments closely.</div><div> </div><div><em>Tomorrow: The E-Royalty Debate</em></div><div> </div><div>------------</div><div>Feel free to forward, post, or tweet. Here is a short URL for linking: <a href="http://tiny.cc/s6433" target="_blank">http://tiny.cc/s6433</a></div>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-35439915467864207692010-12-09T05:02:00.002-05:002010-12-09T05:05:00.143-05:00Feds hint at charges for WikiLeaks' Assange | Privacy Inc. - CNET News<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025082-281.html">Feds hint at charges for WikiLeaks' Assange | Privacy Inc. - CNET News</a><br />
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Bathetic as it may be, I wonder whether or not the Feds will include copyright infringement among their list of charges against the WikiLeaks founder. It might stick, and the maximum penalty for knowing, repeated copyright infringement is five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each work.<br />
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Works are usually books, or songs, or movies, or games.<br />
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Usually, for full copyright protection, the "work" has to be registered with the Library Of Congress. Are state secrets entered into the loc.gov?<br />
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Can one argue that government employees' reports are "works"? Were they "works for hire" and does that make a difference? I don't know. Everything one writes is said to be instantly copyrighted to the author.<br />
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Copyright infringement is the unauthorized copying and publishing of works without the permission of the copyright owner... usually the author.<br />
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It seems to me, that the WikiLeaks problem may make passage of COICA (s~3804) much more likely.RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-23264415579297174442010-11-16T05:01:00.000-05:002010-11-16T05:01:55.420-05:00S-3804 Why Authors And Voice Talent Need Help<b><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Senators considering S 3804 should read this. This is a prime example of why authors and voice talent need a change in the law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">As I said before, the books are not "Complimentary". They are stolen. Illegally posted. Posted without permission. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The club owner admits as much. </span><br />
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It would seem that Google finally took down the 'Books' site (due to terms of service!... which means that some book publishers complained!!). Anyway, after just an hour, the new site is 'live again' <br />
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I honestly don't know why they bother! <br />
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Please use the following url to find the new site as this will always point to the new Google pages as they are created<br />
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"XXXXXX" ">XXXXXX Click Here to Collect Your Complimentary Books!<br />
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It's always fun and games trying to get these nice 'goodies' to the membership!! <br />
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</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Why do publishers bother? </span></b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Feel free to tell this pirate, my friends. The income that he is making from his piracy is made at great cost to those he preys upon. He is a parasite!</span></b>RowenaBCherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14826977922522817547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19956098.post-73780598964022180702010-11-12T09:22:00.000-05:002010-11-12T09:22:42.773-05:00How To Recognize A PirateYahoo, Google, Picassa and others are involved in some fairly blatant piracy. So much for "Don't Be Evil"!<br />
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Here... put your deductive powers to the test and see if you can spot the tacit admission that these people understand perfectly well that the books they are telling you (innocent readers) are "free", "freely available" and "complimentary" are in fact pirated in violation of the law and the rights of the authors.<br />
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<div style="font-weight: normal;"> </div><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"> The BOOK CLUB is indeed free to join, as long as the Yahoo group owner does not recognize your author name, in which case, you are not welcome.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Many of the books are only "free" because someone else stole them. They may have been snagged from a pirate site, they could contain all manner of viruses and trojans and formatting horrors. If you download one of these books, not only are you receiving stolen goods, but you could be getting a lot of nasty stuff you did not expect.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">"COMPLIMENTARY" books.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Complimentary means "given free, as a courtesy".</span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This should be investigated under the trades description act, IMHO! The owners didn't give the books "free" as a "courtesy". The person giving it free, as a courtesy doesn't own the rights, and is giving something they have no right to give. That's wrong.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Besides, they aren't giving you the books as a courtesy. They are trying to trick you into purchasing downloading services, and also to use your interest as a hook for selling space to advertisers, who are in turn ripping off respectable businesses who have no idea that their advertising budget is being used to fund copyright infringement.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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assume that this is the case with this plea for donations.<br />
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What I find fascinating is that PayPal is apparently doing a matching donation effort to support this<br />
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PayPal profits enormously from copyright infringement, because so many pirates receive accept payments for copyright infringing sales of intellectual property that they have no right to sell (or otherwise monetize) through PayPal.<br />
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I've never heard that PayPal attempts to make any sort of restitution to the authors and publishing professionals. This open sponsorship by PayPal of an organization that is campaigning against COICA strikes me as quite significant.<br />
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