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Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by brianstorms »

skeaker wrote: post #351
brianstorms wrote: post #174

Fuck that site. Offers people links to free PDF downloads of my book that I worked on for 32 years and finally got published by Pantheon Books in 2017. I didn't work all that fucking time for criminals like these to just break copyright law and make the book available for free. Fuck Anna's Archive, and I hope they go down in legal flames ASAP.

I can promise you that the site isn't the reason your book flopped financially. That is just what the vast majority of books do, especially ones on such niche topics.

Who fucking said my "book flopped financially" -- please, point that out. Oh, wait, you can't, because you just made that up. Fucking hell. This place sucks.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by brianstorms »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #199
brianstorms wrote: post #174

Fuck that site. Offers people links to free PDF downloads of my book that I worked on for 32 years and finally got published by Pantheon Books in 2017. I didn't work all that fucking time for criminals like these to just break copyright law and make the book available for free. Fuck Anna's Archive, and I hope they go down in legal flames ASAP.

This strikes me as a bit ironic, if you're serious, as you list your current work as covering the entirety of the Beatles discography. Are you paying them for the rights?

Yes I fucking am. Thank you for your concern.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by rkomorn »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #200
brianstorms wrote: post #174

Fuck that site. Offers people links to free PDF downloads of my book that I worked on for 32 years and finally got published by Pantheon Books in 2017. I didn't work all that fucking time for criminals like these to just break copyright law and make the book available for free. Fuck Anna's Archive, and I hope they go down in legal flames ASAP.

I wonder if the people who downloaded it for free (has anyone actually done so?) would have ever paid for it.

The "I never would've paid for it" argument has always been entirely meaningless to me.

You wouldn't have paid for it? Fine. Don't read, watch, play, or listen to it, then.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by slt2021 »

akkad33 wrote: post #548
kelnos wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very little. Aside from high-profile/best-selling authors who do make a decent amount of money, the vast majority of writers do it because they love doing it, not because they expect to become rich.

Now you can publish independently through Kindle or through learnpub. Would that not cut out the intermediary fees?

not by much, kindle authors earn 70% royalty only if they price the book between $3-$10.

outside that range they get 35% royalty

so it is marginally better, but overall I cannot say that anyone got rich off of slaving away for Amazon Kindle, Inc

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by brianstorms »

rkomorn wrote: post #553
pavel_lishin wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if the people who downloaded it for free (has anyone actually done so?) would have ever paid for it.

The "I never would've paid for it" argument has always been entirely meaningless to me. You wouldn't have paid for it? Fine. Don't read, watch, play, or listen to it, then.

this.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by skeaker »

brianstorms wrote: post #551
skeaker wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can promise you that the site isn't the reason your book flopped financially. That is just what the vast majority of books do, especially ones on such niche topics.

Who fucking said my "book flopped financially" -- please, point that out. Oh, wait, you can't, because you just made that up. Fucking hell. This place sucks.

If it didn't, then what exactly is the problem?

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by ajslater »

msp26 wrote: post #361
lolive wrote: post #140

I choose the books I buy, from Anna's Archive. I choose the comics I buy from readComicsOnline. I choose the [european] graphic novels I buy from #WONTTELL. And I am one of the best customers of these 3 physical shops, in my town. So sure, I don't buy the latest trends based on ads. I investigate a lot to buy GREAT stuff. Sometimes the shopkeeper has headaches to find the obscure stuff I discovered online that NOBODY…

The french comic pirate scene has an interesting rule where they keep a ~6 month time lag on what they release. The scene is small enough that the rule generally works. It's a really good trade-off. I would never have gotten into these comics without piracy but now if something catches my eye, I don't mind buying on release (and stripping the DRM for personal use). Most of my downloading is closer to collecting/hoard…

I have heard that Marvel & DC, don't care about comic piracy at all. Comics are a cheap loss leading funnel for what actually makes money: movies, tv, video games, & especially merchandise.

However, smaller publishers like Titan Comics care about piracy a great deal and attack it somewhat successfully with gusto, because that's the only revenue.

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by Krasnol »

Aurornis wrote: post #322
lolive wrote: post #140

I choose the books I buy, from Anna's Archive. I choose the comics I buy from readComicsOnline. I choose the [european] graphic novels I buy from #WONTTELL. And I am one of the best customers of these 3 physical shops, in my town. So sure, I don't buy the latest trends based on ads. I investigate a lot to buy GREAT stuff. Sometimes the shopkeeper has headaches to find the obscure stuff I discovered online that NOBODY…

> Am I an exception? Years ago I was following development of an indie game. The developers wanted to provide a DRM-free experience. The game had some online functionality (leaderboard or something). They were surprised when the number of accounts accessing the online functionality exceeded their sales by a dramatic number. The developer updates grew more and more sad as they switched from discussing new features to…

Maybe the game wasn't worth it.

Check out RimWorld.

Small game, no online functionality, never had DRM. It wasn't even big. It was shared all over the place because it was so expensive. It's still there and it's thriving. Still expensive.

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