Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• Flamboyant Bravery Under Fire
  (tags: war military bravery)
• The Woo of Lost, reviewed by Adam Roberts
  (tags: lost scifi)
• Govt. announces big constitutional changes
  66% to get force an election - unless no government can be formed in 14 days. I like that.
  (tags: politics reform uk)
• Things I won't work with - a catalogue of really unpleasant chemicals
  (tags: chemistry science funny dangerous explosives)
• Fighting with teenagers: A Copyright story
  (tags: copyright music law filesharing sheetmusic)

Comments

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[broin.livejournal.com]

Sell special editions, behind-the-scenes, book tours, signings, and advice.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[broin.livejournal.com]

And if .txt is de rigeur, sell nicely formatted PDFs. If PDFs are commonplace, sell ePub.

The game book I'm editing/developing at the moment, we chucked on a filesharing site as advertising. One thousand downloads, hundreds more pageviews. When we have a physical product with art, support material and access to the author, there's going to be some extra sales because of that.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[andrewducker]

PDFs, ePubs, etc. are all freely copiable.

Physical versions less so, but the question is whether there's a market for physical versions in 5 years. I don't believe there is for music, TV or movies, and there's a great big question-mark over books.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[broin.livejournal.com]

How many box sets do you have, though? Right now, they make sense, just about.

We've had this conversation a few times, and ultimately I can't see how you can effectively subsidise creative industries for very long. It's only ever going to be a short-term fix, and the marketplace is changing a lot.

So be agile. If you can produce something rare and charge for it, or produce something common that has stuff nearby that's rare, then that plan makes sense to me. In Brazil, music is pirated, and the bands make money from tours. They apparently *expect* piracy and use it as a promotional tool.

PDFs etc are of course copiable, but if they're more special for a little while, they'll make a little money.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[andrewducker]

I have box sets for some stuff, but less as time goes on, and only when they're on cheap offers.

I got the box set for Mad Men seasons 1 and 2, but then season 3 was on "live" in the US, so I just downloaded it.

Of course, I happily buy into the Spotify model, but Virgin's VOD is still tiny compared to how much stuff is out there.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[broin.livejournal.com]

Yep. I can't remember the last time I bought a CD. Probably a decade ago.

I downloaded all those seasons. And I'd have loved a service where I could have downloaded more easily. I did pay for a monthly Rapidshare account.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[broin.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I've bought non-mainstream CDs in the last year from bands whose gigs I've attended.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

>behind-the-scenes, book tours, signings, and advice.

That's fine for the healthy, naturally didactic extrovert author without a family who writes material that reads well.

>Sell special editions
Yeah, I'm wondering whether we'll have a return to the illustrated pulps, complete with schematics and maps.