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I have published a series of blogs on my other web site www.johnnybeelring.com, mostly about the various places Susan and I have visited while lecturing on different cruise ships.
With the launch of this new site I am going to try to do something a little different and sound off about things of interest and concern to me.
For instance, last year I published an audio version of the book I wrote about Radio 1, "Radio 1, The Inside Scene".
I read it all myself and it was produced by another experienced Radio man, John Evington. Between us we made pretty good job of it and it was duly published by OneMedia via Amazon and iTunes.
I was somewhat disappointed to get a royalty statement for the first 6 months for £1.02p! In view of all the current interest in Radio 1's activities I was somewhat surprised, but on exploring the web I found that what was on offer were individual chapters rather than the complete book! So the royalty on a single chapter amounted to very few pence. If that wasn't bad enough, on top of that by careful searching I found one company had ripped off the whole thing, printed and audio versions and were offering it as a free download!! Talk about blatant theft! What's to be done? The profits are so small I can't afford to put a lawyer onto the case so I will have to hope my publishers will take some action.
Down with piracy I say, send in a gunboat!
Today Sunday March 2 2014, I have an email from another old friend, Mike Pasternak, aka Emperor Rosko. Years ago he and I wrote a book "Emperor Rosko's DJ Handbook" and what do you know that's been pirated too. Mike wrote to tell me that on eBay there were adverts for unauthorised copes of that publication, crediting me as the author, on sale at over £25 a copy!!
So I have been busy complaining to eBay about that situation. What a bummer, we do all the work and Mr Anonymous gets the profit without so much as a "by your leave Johnny".
I'll keep you posited about progress if any.
March 6 2014
Seem to have picked up a few more followers on Twitter and there is some interest in other books on Broadcasting with which I have been involved, also a few academics looking at my Tweets. It's all quite gratifying to know that people are still interested in my views on the happy "world of wireless".
Have been in discussion with one academic who is seriously considering putting together a retrospective on Radio 1 and who has invited me to be a possible contributor. Will give more news of this when it is firmed up but it looks like being staged towards the end of the year.
Not much response yet from my publisher about the piracy of the book, am waiting to hear from the audio version publisher but it is a serious problem. How can anyone just offer my work for sale without my permission or without offering to pay me a royalty? I guess these robbers think that they can hide under a cloak of invisibility and hope that the owner of the rights cannot afford a legal intervention.
Any one any ideas how to deal with it? As we used to say on the radio " answers on a postcard please!"
More soon.though I am having trouble with site publishing this latest comment...
I have published a series of blogs on my other web site www.johnnybeelring.com, mostly about the various places Susan and I have visited while lecturing on different cruise ships.
With the launch of this new site I am going to try to do something a little different and sound off about things of interest and concern to me.
For instance, last year I published an audio version of the book I wrote about Radio 1, "Radio 1, The Inside Scene".
I read it all myself and it was produced by another experienced Radio man, John Evington. Between us we made pretty good job of it and it was duly published by OneMedia via Amazon and iTunes.
I was somewhat disappointed to get a royalty statement for the first 6 months for £1.02p! In view of all the current interest in Radio 1's activities I was somewhat surprised, but on exploring the web I found that what was on offer were individual chapters rather than the complete book! So the royalty on a single chapter amounted to very few pence. If that wasn't bad enough, on top of that by careful searching I found one company had ripped off the whole thing, printed and audio versions and were offering it as a free download!! Talk about blatant theft! What's to be done? The profits are so small I can't afford to put a lawyer onto the case so I will have to hope my publishers will take some action.
Down with piracy I say, send in a gunboat!
Today Sunday March 2 2014, I have an email from another old friend, Mike Pasternak, aka Emperor Rosko. Years ago he and I wrote a book "Emperor Rosko's DJ Handbook" and what do you know that's been pirated too. Mike wrote to tell me that on eBay there were adverts for unauthorised copes of that publication, crediting me as the author, on sale at over £25 a copy!!
So I have been busy complaining to eBay about that situation. What a bummer, we do all the work and Mr Anonymous gets the profit without so much as a "by your leave Johnny".
I'll keep you posited about progress if any.
March 6 2014
Seem to have picked up a few more followers on Twitter and there is some interest in other books on Broadcasting with which I have been involved, also a few academics looking at my Tweets. It's all quite gratifying to know that people are still interested in my views on the happy "world of wireless".
Have been in discussion with one academic who is seriously considering putting together a retrospective on Radio 1 and who has invited me to be a possible contributor. Will give more news of this when it is firmed up but it looks like being staged towards the end of the year.
Not much response yet from my publisher about the piracy of the book, am waiting to hear from the audio version publisher but it is a serious problem. How can anyone just offer my work for sale without my permission or without offering to pay me a royalty? I guess these robbers think that they can hide under a cloak of invisibility and hope that the owner of the rights cannot afford a legal intervention.
Any one any ideas how to deal with it? As we used to say on the radio " answers on a postcard please!"
More soon.though I am having trouble with site publishing this latest comment...
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