What do REAL PUBLISHERS know that I don't?
me wearing Saint Georges' wig (Wigging Out!) :grin:
...This is a real picture, not a fake, but Charles is not the real one, he is only a wax statue from the Museum Grévin..
The picture above is the real ME, but I'm a fake.. he he..
Hi John Watt,
From Well-land? I want to eat food from there!:crazy:
Wow, hey I reeeally appreciate your words! I can disagree, bunches even, maybe? Maybe not. Let's see..
Adobe - the type style people, invented the language Postscript. They had a great relationship with Apple, who used it for Laser-printers, and instead of 2700 dpi on Linotronic or true printing, a Laser printer could give you 300 dpi which most people can use. I even met Paul Brainerd the founder of PageMaker at a trade show. He had a printing background in Chicago and was teaching everyone how you can NOW publish your own newsletters, newspapers etc.. Legal forms could for once be printed by most anyone! I knew many professionals of DTP (desktop publishing) who worked at copy-centers, helping people use MS-Word, spreadsheet and graphics programs and the like.. so..
Yes I bought into the term DeskTop Publishing, I created manuals to teach it in professional classes, and was the top freelance trainer for Adobe, Apple, Quantum, CGI, Stanford University, SLAC, SRI, Tandem, Lockheed and about 20 more companies you would know.
It's March 2013 now and I have a communication going with the © (copyright) office in the states something like: "You stated on your application that the works are not published, but in the file it has a date of publication.." so I told them that the printer forced me to put a date - it wouldn't print with a future published date! When I went to LAC (library archives of Canada) to get ISBN and ISMN numbers for myself, they just put my dba name in for publishing company even though I told them, specifically, over the phone, that I wasn't a publishing company.
At first I was perturbed by the © office, but thinking about it, it made me so happy! I realized, hey! That's right! They still aren't published, one day, I can still share them with people and THEY ARE NEW BOOKS!
A publisher should submit your works to reviewers, and there should be many people who will be very interested in special interests I have explored (like Saint George's works, clave lessons, ensemble techniques, etc..) and instead of my works disappearing into the back room of nowhere, those interested in these things can find them. This is what I see as the disaster of self-publishing! Everyone can suggest things you can do to self-publish, but I'll bet you they are nothing compared to what the big publishers know and do.
I think I liked your reply here John mostly because you talked about how things were in the past - that's important! You talked about how we can all do it ourselves nowadays - too true. You also made funny jokes about what the word itself means, and how the Submit Reply button is really the publisher! Hilarious!:nut:
What bugs me is that the LAC in Canada seems to value what people use delicio.us, stumbeledupon, digg, technorati, tweeter, foobook and these social media, which as far as I am concerned, are LCD - lowest common denominator and if one-person-one-vote we will all eat macdonalds every night and rude cartoons will be all that's on TV. Texting style of writing will be mand8ory and pre-iphone conversations considered old-fashioned. If LAC (Library Archives of Canada) wants to value what people with too much time on their hands think, and no hard worked skills like a 4+ hours a day artist think, we are all doomed.
So my only project is to distribute enough of my books, materials and songs, so that in some future world that values hard worked artistry, there will be enough of my works to become "popular" and therefore when teenagers click it enough it becomes law
Other than that, I am so glad to find artists here like JPaul and the rest of you who would even read this far into Teo's rant about copy-wrongs.. you win the bonus, all my songs and scores are in a super-efficient sortable web site
http://teovincent4.com and after you select some songs & files, at the botton of the page you can make a custom playlist of them! Thanks ever so Mr. Magle, the internet, our computers and everything that has helped this sharing and meeting of kindred spirits happen. XOXOXO
Sincerely,
Teo
Thank for your message Théo. I received it with my telephone as I was having a nice week-end with my wife in Paris under the snow.
