Posts by Mark Harris
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Mark got pseudo angry
Hmm, somehow I missed that comment. Whatever.
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Thanks Sacha. Changed
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you shouldn't fight the free distribution of your work but use it to promote yourself and then come up with other ideas to bring in money.
1 - why don't you get out on the road doing live performances of your books.
Which authors do all over the place, take books with them, sign them and sell them. It's called marketing, rob.
2 - merchandise - T shirts, and souvenir teaspoons. a very lucrative market to sell while doing your 'gig's.
Yes, that's another potential revenue stream
3 - Don't be seen to object to people taking your stuff for free or protecting any income streams that you may already have set up. this will be painted as you attacking your audience. Why would you go out of your way to inconvenience people who are you fans and show it by grabbing your works however they can?. (free off the internet being the easiest and cheapest). Apparently it progress when its at your expense, don't fight it.
No, not really a revenue stream, unless you measure wealth in your own bile. You do have to realise that the world changes around you and what was a sensible investment some years ago, may not have kept up. Being flexible and able to adjust will go a long way, rob.
4 - remember that because you create this stuff you owe society because you've unintentionally made something that it sees as culture, and culture doesn't belong to you. Be grateful for having the privileged of contributing and show that gratitude by keeping your mouth shut if you object to a low standard of living.
Sadly, the majority of those who contribute to cultural wealth have had to put up with this situation for hundreds of years. Kit Marlowe was one of the most successful playwrights of his time, well respected and his work has come through to the 21st century without the intervention of Mr Garrick. But he was never wealthy, except momentarily. Shakespeare, his contemporary, was well-off before he started writing plays. Dickens, a later writer, was successful because there was a market hungry for the penny dreadfuls and bought his work in serial form. Had they had to pay the full price of a novel, he might not have been quite as successful. But that doesn't affect the quality of his art.
Many artists and writers have only found success after their death. And for every JK Rowling, there's lots that never get published, let alone make a living.
It's called the way of the world, rob.
No one likes a whiner.
I'm sure you'll find a friend soon, anyway
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ewww
...but that'd do it...
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Hang on - left vs. right - How did I get to kiwiblog???
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I know we're not supposed to link-whore, but I just put up a new post at On the Gripping Hand about some of the statistics being touted around "piracy" by RIANZ and others. Feedback appreciated.
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good point
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Nice point, but I suspect CPI is using trademark, rather than copyright, law. So the stories may be in the PD but the characters are trade marked, which is what I would have done when the movie was made in order to cash in on the spin-offs.
However, I am only surmising...
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Let's try that again with Preview this time:
I understand there are 4 episodes available for viewing at the Film Archive in Wellington. Maybe NZonScreen (**why** is that a dot com FFS?) could look to putting them online ;-)
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I understand there are 4 episodes available for viewing at the Film Archive] in Wellington. Maybe [[http://www.nzonscreen.com|NZonScreen (**why** is that a dot com FFS?) could look to putting them online ;-)