Jeff, One Lonely Guy, on seeking millions of readers for his new memoir of ...
21.05.12
I didn’t even think that, and I would’ve been happy if I’d got at that point five people who would’ve just talk to me cause I was very, very deeply depressed. “I just wanted to talk to people,” he told me at a bar in Union Square the day after his book release party. Sixty percent of the calls and texts, according to Ragsdale, have been from people who have “a high degree of pain in their lives,” and the other 40 percent are well-wishers. Like a hundred, two hundred calls, and then that next week it went viral. He gets a lot of people calling just to tell him a joke. The flyer took off on social networking sites and was literally passed to people all over the world through Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, 4Chan, and Imgur. … But within two days New Yorkers overwhelmingly started calling. “I put the flyer up, and I thought I’d get maybe 20 calls total.
Source: Capital New York
Bigger Than Agency, Bigger Than E-Books: The Case Against Apple and Publishers
21.05.12
the point is that they’re deals at the top of companies to refrain from fully competing with each other —
and freeze out companies who don’t agree. “Plenty of business practices raise prices that aren’t antitrust violations,” says Donald Knebel, an IP and antitrust attorney affiliated with Indiana University’s Center for Intellectual Property Research. And you’ve got to do something about it. ”. Pozen points to the DoJ’s 2010 case against Apple and other technology companies, who in a settlement agreed to refrain from any agreements not to poach each other’s employees. Pozen’s comments to the WSJ confirm what IP and antitrust experts have told Wired: this is much bigger than agency pricing alone.
Source: Wired News