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The question of this week is very simple and direct.
During the book fair in Frankfurt, I told everyone there that they should share content freely in the internet. Either we share or the industry will die. Most agreed with me but still had to figure out how they could survive in this new model. I didn’t have a ready-made answer to this since I’m taking my steps. This need for them to have an answer also applies to music, films and any other type of art. So, how can we share contents freely on the web and still make a living out of it?
According to you, how will the new paradigm of internet apply to the cultural industries?
You answers will be shared by me with some of the people I meet in Frankfurt.
You can also read my speech on copyrights and about the future of the book by clicking here
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Feng Shui
Кризис, говорят, в марте усилится. Хотелось бы знать, кто затеял все это
и как вообще мы докатились до такой жизни.
В нынешней ситуации большинство тем отходят на второй план. Интересно, как мы будем жить, если доллар рухнет?
Here is the letter I wrote to Quincy Jones .
"Dear Mr Jones,
Another Christmas is around the corner.
I am a 62 years old home-engineer (in training) and I still believe in Santa Claus.
I have just realised that over the years, the letter I sent have never been delivered. So this year, I decided to take matter into hands.
I know you are a good friend with Oprah Winfrey and Oprah's friends are my friends.
You and I share something in commun, you make a mean thrillers ribs and I make a mean "sauce vinaigrette." and other things as well, I have suffered depression all my life and I have just waken-up to what life is all about – a late bloomer –
I wrote something on the Paulo Coelho's blog and I would like your opinion to see if this could be made into an International song where all nationalities , regardless of their ages, religions, genders, colour of their skins, the blind, the deaf, the disabled, the mute, the sick will be embraced.
Santa, I love you so much, please answer my prayers.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message.
It is sincere and comes from the heart.
Love
Marie-Christine"
Maybe one of the ways to still earn something from free e-books is to make the e-book version sponsored by some companies or something, or maybe even some advertisements. I know it will be a bit weird (or is it?). More like reading a magazine probably.
Even more, if the book is translated into another language, the translated version can be another opportunity for sponsors and advertisers that are “only” operating in that native country.
So the cost that readers should pay is in a way covered by sponsors. Of course for readers it wont be as pleasant as reading it without advertisements, but hey, it’s free, so I think it’s ok. :)
with smile,
ali
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” Budha
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