No, I’m not talking trash .. it’s Trash Pick up day in my neighborhood. I got my gear on, dragged the can to the curb and kept on walking.
Edit: I looked it up. March 25 is the anniversary walk.
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One way to celebrate the anniversery could be to take a picture of some of the things we hear about on the walk. The yappy dogs, the stop sign crossing, the monk pole. 🙂
oh i like that 🙂
If the EU research study really showed that people *either* pirate OR buy music, I find that very fishy indeed. While there are most certainly people who only pirate and don’t buy music, and there’s clearly people who do not pirate… The overwhelming majority of people I know that have at one time or another downloaded less than legitimate copies of music have ended up buying a lot MORE music than they customarily did… because it has led to them discovering artists they really like and either want to support financially or just want the simplicity of just buying their music.
So, the eventual conclusion is the same — that piracy doesn’t hurt profits — but the path by which we reach that destination is different.
One can obviously extrapolate the same to ebooks. If someone downloads an illegitimate copy of, say, Quarter Share, and loves it, then they might be the sort of person who pirates everything on which case they may download illegitimate copies of your other books… but they would have bought none of them anyway, or they might be the sort to buy the rest, in which case you gained a customer who would not otherwise have bought any of your books! I am, of course, preaching to the choir. 🙂
– Stephen
Here’s a link to the story. It’s a bit lacking in precise detail: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21856720
edit: Actually there’s a link to the study in the story. It’s posted on Scribd. http://www.scribd.com/doc/131005609/JRC79605
Thanks! 🙂
I know of one individual who sometimes pirates and then buys. In fact, the person decided that since $5 is a good book price, there would be a purchase of another book by the same author of any pirated and read book. If the book is not read, then it is considered to be a “free sample.” Weird logic, but this person is a bit weird.
Ur, “in which case”, not “on which case”. 🙂
In the audiobook of _Anansi Boys_ I was surprised to hear the name pronounced “A Nancy” I was saying it the same way you do, because I heard of it from you, but upon careful examination of the name, it does sound like it is spelled.
Oh, for heaven’s sake!
I thought it was Anasaxi Boys …. after the Native American tribe.
I *really* didn’t get too far into this one before giving up on it … apparently I never even read the blurb!
Do I have to turn in my Nerd Card now??