Posts by stephen walker
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And, I'd love to know where that@ $10 figure comes from - what's paid to the ISP? The author?
i don't know Maho-no-i-land's exact business model, but i used to work in a related industry and they were part of a network we operated. they were doing very well even back then (around 2001). anyway, in their case their was no ISP cut from content fees because they were a non-official content provider. i.e. they put stuff up that anyone could look at on their phone, just like the normal free-view web. they made money out of ads.
i assume they do now have official status on the big mobile carrier sites, so they can bill for content through mobile phone invoices. the carrier does take a cut, but not much, because they are making money from the data traffic. Maho-no-i-land, as the publisher, would take a big cut, but the authors would do ok, because even if they were only getting 10-20% of gross, if they got several hundred thousand downloads (or millions) at 500 yen a pop (NZ$10) that would be a sizeable total.
it may not all be award-winning literature, but people are very much willing to pay for it because of the convenience, novelty, freshness, topicality, etc. the people who buy it obviously do so because they see that they are getting something of value, and they know the author will get something in return. the popularity of these things goes in waves, but this wave seems to have been going for a few years now, and getting bigger rather than smaller so far.
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Sacha's analogy is far from silly (such a useful adjective!) imho.
people still need transportation, but just not on horseback as much as they used to. the technology changed, the activity it facilitated didn't (moving people around).i interpreted it as an interesting way to view the evolution of how people read stuff. 40 years ago, nearly all in print. now, a huge chunk on a screen of some kind. the reading remains but the medium changes. horses or cars, people still getting about. so, how is his analogy "silly"?
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was New Zealand on maps back then?
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@giovanni
adorable
that seems very...forgiving of you.
(i saw the former lecturer speaking as tertiary education spokesperson before the '87 election.
what happened in the ensuing three years was a lesson in "you actually believed those pricks?" betrayal.
so drinking with or voting for someone so liberal with the truth would be an exercise in severe cognitive dissonance)Zeppo? if only...
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i agree with Jackie about pseudonyms.
i've never been to a casino so i can't comment about that.
but i find the idea of going very unappealing.(and my 10-year-old son will tell you that i have an aesthetic grudge against the AK one: "dad, is that really the world's tallest unpainted concrete sewer pipe? you're just making that up, aren't you?)
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that last photo is a beaut!
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code mane? oh no!
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Our model is the trapezoid...
LOL
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and just remember, the largest pyramid scheme of all eternity goes by a very simple code mane:
USD
last one to unload a worthless trillion or two is fu..., well let's just say that it would be preferable if they don't have nuclear weapons at their disposal when they see how much the casino has ripped them off...
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it's called a "pyramid scheme" i think, Paul.
-overpriced property version
-carry trade version
-dairying in unsustainable places version
-ad nauseum