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Authors who put their head in the sand are also mentioned. J.K. Rowling, who won’t allow ebooks of her works to be published, has every single one of her books available digitally as they were either transcribed or scanned by fans. So much for the ultimate DRM – don’t publish! Even that doesn’t work. Simon & Schuster shot itself in the foot by not publishing an ebook of Stephen King’s Under the Dome, as it was almost immediately available on the net within days. How many sales did they loose by delaying ebook release? Note that Rowling and King are among the top 25 most pirated books. All those sales lost, lost lost because publishers don’t understand the ebook space.

help me to share books locally without hassle with friends, books fans or neighbours. I created Forban to share files easily on the local network. The software is a first implementation of the Forban protocols : fully relying on traditional HTTP with a simple UDP protocol for broadcasting and announcing the service on the local network.

Vous regardez trop la télé, bonjour. Les abonnés et fans de la chaîne cryptée en rêvaient, voilà qui est enfin fait : Canal Plus lance ce jour son application iPhone.

If you ask most Firefox (Firefox) fans the main reason they won’t switch to Chrome, a good majority of them will probably cite its lack of extensions. But that might change, because Chrome extensions are coming — perhaps soon. And for users of the developer’s build of Chrome, they’re already here. So for those of you brave enough to use the unstable developers release of Chrome, here are 6 extensions that social media addicts will want to install.

After Madlib was forced to cancel a show in Paris late last year, Malcolm Catto came from London to Paris on a moment’s notice with fellow Heliocentrics Jake Ferguson (bass) and Adey Owasu (guitar) of The Heliocentrics, and stole the show in front of 650 rather frenzied Stones Throw fans. This less-than-ten-minute section of their one hour jam session doesn’t come close to capturing the vibe in the cramped quarters of La Bellevilloise that Saturday, 6th of December 2008.

We had planned for a lot of traffic on launch day and had been load testing the game - in fact, we've been testing and optimizing for a whole month. However, between the enthusiasm of Monopoly fans around the world, everyone who was excited to try out the new experience and non-stop mentions of the game on Twitter, blogs and everywhere else, our servers were overwhelmed. Based on the stats we have, we show a daily rate of about 1.7 million unique visitors, but the figure is likely far higher.

From the beginning, we’ve encouraged creators to tap into their networks as much as possible: there’s clearly a desire from audiences for greater interaction, more access, a more intimate relationship. Twitter has demonstrated that. And so what Kickstarter does is answer the next part of that question: once you have your 10 or 100 or 1,000 or even 1,000,000 True Fans, what comes next?

You allow them a seat at the table. You invite them to become your patrons. You give them an opportunity to have an impact and it’s not just your story anymore, it’s theirs too. And that’s the kind of success that lasts.

Cette application est un autre exemple de la manière dont les professionnels du marketing utilisent Facebook pour inciter les personnes à devenir plus actives dans les causes qu’elles supportent. En permettant aux utilisateurs de franchir le pas, de contacter les législateurs, Take Action promeut une plus grande interaction entre les Fans et les Pages Facebook.

Grâce (ou à cause) de Déclic Images notamment, le public a longtemps cru deux choses : que l'animé était peu cher (à produire comme à acheter) et surtout était populaire et générait de très nombreuses ventes. Même les professionnels tels que Pathé ou TF1 Vidéo sont même tombés dans la panneau et ont lancé leurs propres labels. Ils se sont cassés les dents, entre le prix disproportionné des licences à l'acquisition et les ventes faméliques à l'arrivée. Car oui, un animé vendu à prix normal (c'est à dire couvrant les frais de licence, de développement, les salaires etc.) se vend à moins de 2 000 exemplaires.

Nous sommes moins de 2 000 fans en France à soutenir cette "industrie" et à avoir cette passion de l'animé. Le reste n'est composé que de consommateurs itinérants qui ne connaissent un titre que parce qu'il est gratuit ou présenté comme "aussi bien que (titre à la mode au choix)".

La japanimation c'est énorme, mais ça reste de la micro-économie, un peu comme les microformats ("microWHAT ?" demanderont certains).