Where There's Life, There's Hope.

It May Be Hard To Monetize Fame, But It Is Impossible To Monetize Obscurity.

Everyone Wants A Definition Of Creativity That Makes What They Do Into Something Special And What Everyone Else Does Into Nothing Special. But The Fact Is, We're All Creative. We Come Up With Weird And Interesting Ideas All The Time. The Biggest Difference Between 'creators' Isn't Their Imagination - It's How Hard They Work. Ideas Are Easy. Doing Stuff Is Hard.

There Is No Future In Which Bits Will Be Harder To Copy Than They Are Today ... Any Business Model That Based On The Idea That Bits Will Be Harder To Copy Is Doomed.

There Are People Already Sharing Ebooks Out There, .. And They Do It Simply Because They Love Books. You Don't Buy A Second Copy Of A Book, Cut The Spine Off, Lay Each Page On A Scanner, Run That .tif Through An Ocr (optical Character Reader), Hand Edit The Resulting Output For Errors And Then Post It Online If You Don't Love The Book. It Can Up To 80 Hours To Turn A Printed Novel Into An Ebook. I Figure If Someone Out There Is Willing To Put In 80 Hours Of Work Promoting My Book, Then I'd Prefer They Do It In A Way That Gives A Better Return To Me.

The Future's A Weirder Place Than We Thought It Would Be When We Were Little Kids.