Publishers Beware The Net

Heh..he made $40k for about 20 pages - not hardly even a first chapter. By the time the book is done, he'll do fine...then (and he's set precedent here) he'll pub it in hardcopy form.

I'm looking for the ripped Warez version of the book.

WTF... SQL errors...

I think the catch here is that your paying with guilt, I'd feel quilty if I downloaded the chapter, read it, and didn't pay. But eventually I'd get over it, and just start enjoying the free reading. So what Im saying is, I don't think this thing has a chance in hell of working, but we'll see.

G's up, M's down

M dicks in your ear/throat

On topic this time:

I payed $1 and downloaded the 20 page .pdf file. It's Stephen King alright. Easy to read and very easy to get into. Too bad it's only 2- pages. I'll just have to wait until august 21.

Hey, you know how some software companies put a key in your registry telling the software whether or not you're over your experation date, and how they keep it in their in case you try to uninstall and reinstall?

Where abouts would they keep them?

-Ze BFF d00d

Enter off topic rant mode
Goddamn windows 98 SE keeps getting this f'ing error message
<Unknown> has casused a exception in C09384209348 in module <unknown>
at 0000:302034aec !!! WTF!?!?!??!?!

Ok i'm better now ;)



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it should be y2K

ha ha ha ha......... this is true

CPM (Cost Per Million?)

You're all wrong faggits!

It's CPK! :)

(this was a funny anal retentive thread)

ima get 99 and 100! baby! see!

ima get 99 and 100! baby

Just a question, but what exactly is this doing as a main story? I can understand the mega-strange-interesting-news-evening-reading-stories but this just doesn't deserve the big attention. Then again we're already up to 50 comments or so. I just don't get what a gaming site has to do with publisher's and books (I mean, you can kind of relate napster...)

What have we learned thus far in this comment thread?:

People still read books.

M and m have different values.

Getting around Publishers is easier cause ya dont have to worry about MAKING the books (you're so insightful spectr3 </sarcasm>)

And "Who cares?"

Excellent.

- cygnus

All you guy's got me thinking about Special-K damnit!

[revolver]

* K HOLE'D *

this is just a shareware book. Duh.

-dave

40 thousand downloads? 75 percent claiming to pay, that's bullshit, What if 10k people downloaded that off of my fserv? There is absolutely no way to track it. I may be going out on a limb here, but I betcha there's a TAD bit more than 40 thousand copies off that chapter circulating the internet

I actually read it. Didn't like it, and hence, didn't pay for it. The only book I actually enjoyed by Steven King was The Shining (Apt Pupil was alright too, but only so-so). I really don't think online books have much of a future, eye fatigue sets in rather quickly when trying to read continuously off the screen...

Perhaps King is just bored. Hell, he's published enough novels to build a house with (a small one, but a house)! Fuck the publishers.

Before the Internet, publishers were necessary because they were needed to distribute and package the material. Now that the Internet is here, there is much less need for publishers, because the material is readily available without the need for packaging, and there is no distribution cost. (Of course, what I mean by "material" is anything that is comprised of information only. So I'm not talking about thing made of physical material.)

Since the majority of banks allow manipulation of accounts online, people can make payments online, and get direct access to the good from the producer. This will cut down dramatically on prices, because eliminating the middleman means that the producer need not incur any costs to distribute the good.

eerrr.... I think Duke Nuked is gay? http://www.shugashack.com/show_comments.x?author=Duke%20Nuked&start=20

Yo, Fresh! All us hustlaz be unedumacated! So, how many m's did you pull last night, Freshie V???

*I WAS WRONG*

M not m
M == 1000

but I will stick with that corrected M is still the *proper* usage when dealing with Money. K works and we all know k = 1000 cause of y2k but still when dealing with monitary sources, M is proper.

but I WAS WRONG. M not m.

To end this shit, all I can say is:

"Who cares?"

and if you feel like responding.
again,

"Who cares?"

Actually, we all know k from the fact that it is a metric prefix, and most of us learned that in like 2'nd grade. As for k not being good for money, what difference does it make as to which system we use. If you don't want to use k, because it's metric, I'm gonna have to say that using Roman Numerals is wrong too then. Therefore, let's just type out 'Thousand'. Much easier.

fuck this whole argument.

I don't even care any more... we're discussing computer hadware in werd.... everyone is welcome to join us.

Hey Rosewood...... what exactly does the prefex 'm' stand for in this usage? I still have no response from you.

Rosewood, what does the prefix 'm' stand for in that usage? and, using K for dollars, why is that wrong? Forty Kilo Dollars = Forty Thousand Dollars.

no offense here, but I'm gonna have to go with Freshview on this one... if you're talkin metric, and say $100m... that's uh 1/1000. if you're using roman numerals, you're just completely wrong, because there are no lower case letters in Latin.

Dopeman...

I think King's point here isn't solely about publishing something online... it's
1) him putting it up himself with all it's relative + & -
2) (the kicker) so cheap that there's no reason for you not to pay it.

If id released their next game on the net for $35 I wouldn't care. if it was $10 I'd buy it without question.

I didn't buy Q3A or UT for quite a while because I didn't have the dough... shit that's $100 for 2 games. . . and with 2 kids I'd rather buy groceries with that $100.

If they were media-free files downloadable for $10 each, then you bet. Here's my credit card #... download, unpack, burn.

I'm not much of a novel reader, but sheesh... "no need to hollar, it's only a dollar" Spend $3 on a watery soda at a ball game. THATS a rip. A dollar for the chapter of a novel doesnt' get pissed away quite literally. (=

"This kind of strategy and the surprising success they are claiming could have some interesting possible impacts on other industries. (read: games) Well, maybe.. "

Steve: you're drinking draino :)

You all should know this shit.
Think Superbowl and m&m's

heh. or something.


but anyways it would be quite interesting to see if IDsoftware released DOOM3 online, without a publisher, and sold it to us retail valued at 35 bux or something. It would be pretty fucked up tho coz we would get no "special edition" box or anything, and all ID would have to do is send us a file.