nikgregory

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Of Amazon and eBooks, again(nikgregory.com)
3 points by nikgregory 15y ago|0 comments
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Crazy Censorship: CBSC Bans Money for Nothing by Dire Straits(nikgregory.com)
17 points by nikgregory 16y ago|6 comments
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by nikgregory 16y ago
Actually Latex does a pretty crappy job routinely producing widows and orphans. The only way to change this seems to screw up the pagebreaking. When was the last time you saw a widow or orphan in a book? I'll bet never for one from a major
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by nikgregory 16y ago
Complain to Amazon who is taking 40% of the cover price and restricting you. I'm sure publishers likely love it, but read inside the cover of any book. Your right to resell it is enshrined in law (as long as you haven't destroyed it). Publi
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by nikgregory 16y ago
Publishers are actually starting to format their ebooks, which yes will make it cost more than a paperback while ebooks remain a secondary release. Not only are formatters having to learn how to correctly format for multiple devices, but th
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by nikgregory 16y ago
I think what people are failing to understand is that, you know, someone MAKES these things. They're not just farted out of thin air. A junior editor sifts through hundreds of submissions and passes it onto an actual editor, who passes it
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by nikgregory 16y ago
When I first saw the spike it was for XKCD and Penny Arcade, I was expecting it to be internet culture related. I mean at the time XKCD was still growing in readership and to get a colossal jump was a bit weird so I was wondering about a Di
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Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike(nikgregory.com)
69 points by nikgregory 16y ago|19 comments
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by nikgregory 16y ago
Star Wars arguably has stood the test of time, at least in the film realm for being hugely popular 33 years after its initial release. Only 29 years after our first seeing Mario and he's still hugely popular and putting out sequels with new
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by nikgregory 16y ago
I wholly agree with your points, however I wanted to stay away arguing the point that games like The Longest Journey (one of my favourites for epic stories) are art qualified solely because they're a video-novel not a video-game. A game is
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by nikgregory 16y ago
Fine art is (generally) static, but film and theatre are not, they're the performing arts and this is where I believe video games fall. Where is the difference between Titanic and Avatar? Is Avatar not art or is it excluded because of graph
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Video Games are already art, Mr Ebert(nikgregory.com)
33 points by nikgregory 16y ago|25 comments
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by nikgregory 17y ago
It says the Neato avoids humans, so I'm assuming it also avoids pets. So now I wonder how much work the Neato will get done around a territorial house rabbit. I think I'd feel sorry for the robot, it's either not going to be able to clean o
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by nikgregory 17y ago
Here's the best explained I've found: http://journal.bookfinder.com/2009/03/breakdown-of-book-cost... Other breakdowns always seem to hit close. All numbers are averages, but printing generally hit between 8% and 12% for fiction. However
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by nikgregory 17y ago
Of a few sources for the clearest figures, most appeared to be quoting from this, and not self-pub figures like the OP of this thread. Here's the best written I could find: http://journal.bookfinder.com/2009/03/breakdown-of-book-cost... L
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by nikgregory 17y ago
Printing is 10% of cover price, distribution is 10% of cover price (this I believe includes the cost of returning too). For a hardcover this can total $8, for a mass market paperback this can be $1. Amazon, lik I didn't get into a discussio
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by nikgregory 17y ago
Agreed, it's not really anything more than a gimmick. However, if it only appears once in a few thousand applications it's going to grab attention while someone is trying to figure out what the heck it is.
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Of Amazon and eBooks(nikgregory.com)
9 points by nikgregory 17y ago|15 comments
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The State of Rural 3G Access in Canada(nikgregory.com)
1 points by nikgregory 17y ago|0 comments
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Now it's over with... the iPad(nikgregory.com)
6 points by nikgregory 17y ago|0 comments