Jon’s Techdirt Profile

jon

About Jon




Jon’s Comments comment rss

  • Oct 8th, 2011 @ 3:22am

    Self Publishing > Self Employed

    Maybe in some ways using a publisher is almost like being employed by them. They lay down the rules, make editing suggestions, control the marketing, seemingly do everything for you but are really doing it for themselves. You, the writer, are left hoping that they do a good job promoting your book and that a competitor does not come along that the publisher likes better.

    Self publish, and you are in control. The book becomes a part of your own company, you write it, build it, market it and can potentially make a lot more money from it.

    If you can sell it direct yourself even better (Amazon take a massive commission from sales). Hard work, but maybe more rewarding in the long run.

  • Oct 8th, 2011 @ 3:12am

    X Factor Generation?

    Look at X Factor (and its peers). Designed specifically to find some "talent" then promote then with the specific purpose of selling as many records (or whatever they are called these days) before people get bored and move on to the next trend.

    Also, businesses like this do not like change. People will always listen to music, if the businesses are not moving with the times then it is the death of music, but only for them.
https://www.techdirt.com/user/jon
www.techdirt.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2015-18
10902
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:KFV5RVLYJ4FV343WFHIRYZ3B53M4PO67
<urn:uuid:1da4018d-ed07-49f1-ada2-74a8ff791704>
2015-04-25T20:17:48Z
162.159.243.199
sha1:S4PJIFKG6D2RE6CWCMQGCYU7WXWNSN3Q
<urn:uuid:6dd44104-38b9-425b-a941-eabdff06066a>
https://www.techdirt.com/user/jon
length
response
<urn:uuid:1d58f4c3-11b6-40d1-9f8a-8c22ec4983ad>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-18
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2015
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf