Comments on: When Suing The Customers Is Your Best Answer To Changing Technology, YOU HAVE PROBLEMS! http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems It's About eBooks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Using The Same Advanced Projective Mathematics… | The Naughty Bits http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-4396 Using The Same Advanced Projective Mathematics… | The Naughty Bits Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:23:59 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-4396 [...] That’s the problem with the alarmist speak of the vigilante. Facts take a back seat. I look at the ninety-nine cent non-DRM downloads I buy from Apple all the time and smile and realize that every day is a new day for the techno-weenies fearful of new things who do not listen to common sense. [...] [...] That’s the problem with the alarmist speak of the vigilante. Facts take a back seat. I look at the ninety-nine cent non-DRM downloads I buy from Apple all the time and smile and realize that every day is a new day for the techno-weenies fearful of new things who do not listen to common sense. [...]

]]> By: Just a reader http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3044 Just a reader Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:56:28 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-3044 The Lars Ulrich analogy is perfect. I’ve been thinking the same thing, but was afraid to say it on a book blog because people would chew my head off. I realize authors want to vent, but they shouldn’t do so on sites that are populated by the very readers who ARE buying their books and supporting their work. It is unprofessional. If I bitched at my clients about my compensation woes I’d be fired. Thank you for letting me vent ;) The Lars Ulrich analogy is perfect. I’ve been thinking the same thing, but was afraid to say it on a book blog because people would chew my head off.

I realize authors want to vent, but they shouldn’t do so on sites that are populated by the very readers who ARE buying their books and supporting their work. It is unprofessional. If I bitched at my clients about my compensation woes I’d be fired.

Thank you for letting me vent ;)

]]> By: Teddypig http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3042 Teddypig Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:04:28 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-3042 A lot of the piracy issue is something the ePublishers have the traditional New York Presses to thank for. ePublishers have been in the forefront of trying to find solutions. New York ebook pricing is whack their attitudes towards ebook buyers and use of DRM are whack. They are the ones with the geographical arrangements and now the floor is falling out from under them on hardcover prices. They have robbed Peter to pay Dan Brown and guess what bill is now due? Notice how hardcover prices fell in line with ebook prices? You can't sell a $25.00 ebook now. Funny how content is being treated as content despite format. A lot of the piracy issue is something the ePublishers have the traditional New York Presses to thank for. ePublishers have been in the forefront of trying to find solutions.

New York ebook pricing is whack their attitudes towards ebook buyers and use of DRM are whack. They are the ones with the geographical arrangements and now the floor is falling out from under them on hardcover prices.

They have robbed Peter to pay Dan Brown and guess what bill is now due?

Notice how hardcover prices fell in line with ebook prices? You can’t sell a $25.00 ebook now. Funny how content is being treated as content despite format.

]]> By: Tired Book Buyer http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3041 Tired Book Buyer Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:08:47 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-3041 I don't think the pirates on Asatalk are the real problem. I think the users on eBay who try to profit from selling whole collections of ebooks are the problem. They are targeting consumers who are willing to pay for a book. The pirates are not going to buy those books. An author may lose one or two actual paying customers, but for the most part anyone trolling those sites has no intention of ever paying for anything. Better pricing? If prices are comparable to mass market books then you have an issue. When buying a physical book, I am not just paying for the "story" but I am also paying for the book itself. Something I can turn around and sell. If you drop the prices, then you will have authors upset. I don’t think the pirates on Asatalk are the real problem. I think the users on eBay who try to profit from selling whole collections of ebooks are the problem. They are targeting consumers who are willing to pay for a book. The pirates are not going to buy those books. An author may lose one or two actual paying customers, but for the most part anyone trolling those sites has no intention of ever paying for anything.

Better pricing? If prices are comparable to mass market books then you have an issue. When buying a physical book, I am not just paying for the “story” but I am also paying for the book itself. Something I can turn around and sell.

If you drop the prices, then you will have authors upset.

]]> By: TeddyPig http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3040 TeddyPig Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:52:50 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-3040 The problem is not that piracy should not be dealt with I just think the whole having authors send out the DCMA letters and handle the whole thing themselves has lead to some serious frustration. It's one more thing that unfortunately if mishandled has the potential of blowing up and creating a situation damaging to them. The problem is not that piracy should not be dealt with I just think the whole having authors send out the DCMA letters and handle the whole thing themselves has lead to some serious frustration. It’s one more thing that unfortunately if mishandled has the potential of blowing up and creating a situation damaging to them.

]]> By: Angelia Sparrow http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3039 Angelia Sparrow Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:16:11 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-3039 We keep sending the polite DMCA letters to the pirate sites. We do not deal with the users directly. Our links at Asatalk go dead within a day of being put up, and the users whine. But, we do not engage them. All our business is done through the site's complaint form. And we will keep doing it. I'd like to see better pricing and less DRM and everything. Then again, if they'll pirate a $1.29 short story, I don't see how pricing is going to change anything. The B&N Nook's "Sharing" feature has some people worried. I don't mind if someone lets a friend read a copy of my work. That's how authors get spread around. I do mind when they put it up for free to 100,000 of their buds and I haven't even seen a check on it yet. We keep sending the polite DMCA letters to the pirate sites. We do not deal with the users directly.

Our links at Asatalk go dead within a day of being put up, and the users whine. But, we do not engage them. All our business is done through the site’s complaint form. And we will keep doing it.

I’d like to see better pricing and less DRM and everything. Then again, if they’ll pirate a $1.29 short story, I don’t see how pricing is going to change anything.

The B&N Nook’s “Sharing” feature has some people worried. I don’t mind if someone lets a friend read a copy of my work. That’s how authors get spread around. I do mind when they put it up for free to 100,000 of their buds and I haven’t even seen a check on it yet.

]]> By: TeddyPig http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3038 TeddyPig Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:28:51 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-3038 It's a mess that's why I brought up the whole Napster death match. No one will win. It became a personal battle that ran off customers and damaged the artists who got involved. It’s a mess that’s why I brought up the whole Napster death match. No one will win.

It became a personal battle that ran off customers and damaged the artists who got involved.

]]> By: Tired Book Buyer http://www.teddypig.com/2009/10/when-suing-the-customers-is-your-best-answer-to-changing-technology-you-have-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3037 Tired Book Buyer Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:18:09 +0000 http://www.teddypig.com/?p=2723#comment-3037 As a consumer, I am finding this whole thing frustrating and disheartening. I feel really, really horrible for any author who discovers an illegal file being offered. But I am equally tired of authors going on the warpath and claiming that those 900 downloads are all lost sales, because 99% of people who would download from those sites would not purchase that book in the first place. I am getting the distinct impression that some authors have no idea copyright law or what is in their contracts. I have seen authors claim that used book purchases (for a book in print) are not kosher. I have seen authors accuse a woman of being a thief, publicly and continue to make excuses for their poor behavior. If they were a clerk in the store, then they would be fired or sued. If a musician is rude to a performance goer, chances are they will not be hired back. Every time a reader asks for a few rights in regard to e books (ability to lend, more than one device) a gaggle of author's come out of the woodwork to scream about piracy and how dare people possess more than one copy. We get it. But I don't think some e-pub authors get it. What the heck are the publishers doing? As a consumer, I am finding this whole thing frustrating and disheartening. I feel really, really horrible for any author who discovers an illegal file being offered. But I am equally tired of authors going on the warpath and claiming that those 900 downloads are all lost sales, because 99% of people who would download from those sites would not purchase that book in the first place.

I am getting the distinct impression that some authors have no idea copyright law or what is in their contracts.

I have seen authors claim that used book purchases (for a book in print) are not kosher. I have seen authors accuse a woman of being a thief, publicly and continue to make excuses for their poor behavior.

If they were a clerk in the store, then they would be fired or sued. If a musician is rude to a performance goer, chances are they will not be hired back.

Every time a reader asks for a few rights in regard to e books (ability to lend, more than one device) a gaggle of author’s come out of the woodwork to scream about piracy and how dare people possess more than one copy.

We get it. But I don’t think some e-pub authors get it.

What the heck are the publishers doing?

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