Not of the dastardly Somali variety nor even by the camp Mr Depp and his ilk, no these are the kind who upload your song, film or - in my case - audiobook onto a free server for the whole world to enjoy. All you have to do is get a bit torrent program and as long as someone keeps seeding it you can now download Fifty Grand for nothing. Of course I do not recommend this policy, for although I don't get any royalties from the audio versions of my books it probably hurts the company's bottom line; still I can't but be impressed by the speed of the little rapscallions, the audio version of 50 G only came out a fortnight ago and already its on p2p software. Nice work lads. And no I'm going to give you a link, that's just being too cheeky by half; however if you do download the torrent and like the book and are troubled by a guilty conscience afterwards you could do worse than give me a wee review on audible or amazon. Karma will no doubt bless you with an encounter with Keira or Johnny or (if you're 13) Orlando.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Aarrggghhh! - I've Been Attacked By Pirates
Not of the dastardly Somali variety nor even by the camp Mr Depp and his ilk, no these are the kind who upload your song, film or - in my case - audiobook onto a free server for the whole world to enjoy. All you have to do is get a bit torrent program and as long as someone keeps seeding it you can now download Fifty Grand for nothing. Of course I do not recommend this policy, for although I don't get any royalties from the audio versions of my books it probably hurts the company's bottom line; still I can't but be impressed by the speed of the little rapscallions, the audio version of 50 G only came out a fortnight ago and already its on p2p software. Nice work lads. And no I'm going to give you a link, that's just being too cheeky by half; however if you do download the torrent and like the book and are troubled by a guilty conscience afterwards you could do worse than give me a wee review on audible or amazon. Karma will no doubt bless you with an encounter with Keira or Johnny or (if you're 13) Orlando.
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Adrian: I bought the book and Victoria bought the audio version. And I've just finally assembled a nice hardback set of the Dead trilogy. Get you to sign 'em someday.
Those scurvy bastards.
You don't get any royalties from the audio books? That really surprises me.
Y'know, that's actually pretty cool. Especially when you weren't getting paid for it anyway.
Cheers, Dec
Patrick
I assume at some point some publisher will have me come out to the States like the good people of Serpents Tail are having me do with Ireland and England.
And I also suppose that at some point we'll be coming back to America, probably to the Boston area.
Brian
Plank walking curs.
Dec
That was my thought. But then I've always been easily pleased.
Seana
Nope, nor from sales in the UK. That was some contract eh?
Adrian: Before your return to our fair shores, likely I will be carrying my little square box to Australia. Likely October, when I will be in Shanghai and Hong Kong anyway. We can meet at some neutral location for the exchange. You get the box and I get my books signed.
Pat
Ok then. There is one good pub in St Kilda and quite a few adequate ones.
Always wanted to go to Shanghai. As you know I'm a big Ballard fan and apparently the concentration camp where he spent 3 years is now a high school which is somehow appropriate.
Who is Karma? I don't think I know her.
Having been introduced to torrenting by the younger generation, I have in theory what I need to do this. But I wouldn't.
You mean after the success of the other audiobooks you negotiated a deal in which the royalties from eventual audiobooks of 50g were excluded?
I was a little surprised that they got Abe Vigoda to narrate the Fifty Grand audiobook.
Miss Witch
The younger generation are good for some things. Not much, but a few.
Marco
Genius, eh?
Craig
Abe's still around? I used to watch Conan O'Brien trot him out on a regular basis. I guess he wont do that now that he's in the big leagues.
Still retirement in Westchester is better than sleeping with the fishes.
Marco, I probably shouldn't say this in front of Adrian, but it now sounds like it might not be that hard to negotiate a deal with him where you get to keep all royalties on the Italian translations! I mean the contracts will be in Italian, won't they? Sounds like a cinch.
"No royalties from Audio".
Adrian,
What?
There I was, with me eyesight no longer so good, reading is do-able, but hard work, so I've more or less given it up for a library so far of about 500 books on audible and various other places.
Including all your stuff, well, dead and grand anyway.
So, I'm not supporting the artist in any way?
I'm not saying that in a preening way: its just that I do understand that unless I buy those things I like, the people who create them, won't be able to put food on the table, and will have to go and get a real job instead of doing the thing I like.
Shit, I'm sorry, what a drag.
brendan
brendan
no doubt our reward will come in the sweet hereafter.
you could always give me a review if you've got the time? that i would appreciate.
but anyway thanks for reading/listening. i'm doing me best to entertain...
A...
The idea that you get no royalties from audio is very strange, but so is the world of publishing. However, I might feel mildly complimented if someone pirated my audiobook for ye old torrents.
Maybe some pirates will make an audiobook of TIAU - that might make it a lot more fun to hear.
"no doubt our reward will come in the sweet hereafter. "
Adrian,
I'll make a point about buying the book as well in future.
I do 'always' review your work, I had to laugh, for 'fifty grand' Audible gave you a good shout, I gave the first review and said nice things: then some silly tit of an American woman started off bitching about the cussing.
Oddly enough, I don't recall too much cussing from 'Grand', merely the wonderful, brown eyes of the sultry Mercado:)
brendan
Brendan
Ha, ha. Yeah that particular lady drove me mental too
Greg
Yeah I guess its flattering that they would take the trouble. Do you have your book as an adobe acrobat file? I only discovered today that on Adobe Reader 8 there's a button you push and it will read it for you. It does it in a weird Stephen Hawking voice. You should try it.
Adobe Acrobat 9 has the voice of a female teacher calmly dictating a text.
I just tried out that acrobat voice. WEIRD. Tried my pitch with KB. "He...has...an eye forthedames" Classic.
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