Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Javier Candeira <javier AT candeira.com>]

Kevin Phillips (home) wrote:
>> Writers do not really have such alternatives, as a body
>> of text is a body of text is body of test...
> 
> Audio books are a good possibility, or other alternative ways to deliver the
> "text".

And as anyone can make an audiobook off a by-nc-sa novel, the only
difference with by-sa is that -nc only allows the novelist to sell the
audiobook.

>> Once you've read
>> something, you've read it; if it is very good, you might wish to read
>> it again, but are unlikely to wish to read it every day or hang it on
>> your wall.
>> S.M.
> 
> ok. So you need to come to my house and explain to my fiancee why she
> doesn't actually need to buy all of Cory Doctorow's books because he has
> them online for free download.  :)   She loves books, likes to carry them
> around and read them on trains, swap them with friends.  She's an active
> bookmoocher and doesn't seem to be so unique in this regard.

Market for novelists is a bit bigger when you not only consider the nutters.

> It's apparently also essential to have more than one version of a book,
> especially limited edition shiny covered highly-stroke'able expensive ones!
> :)  ...prefereably signed...

Of course. And even translations into languages you don't understand. It's
the covers, you know? Still, we nutters ('us nutters'?) are a limited
market. Most readers pick up whatever cheap paperback edition.

-- j