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BookLender's model is similar to the popular DVD's by mail movie rental model of Netflix, only BookLender's service provides books and audiobooks, not DVD movies. Started around the time Netflix started nearly 12 years ago, BookLender provides unlimited online book and/or audiobook rental service to its members who enjoy the same savings, selection and convenience that Netflix provides for DVD movies. Oprah Magazine called BookLender the "books version of Netflix".
While there are many similarities between the BookLender and Netflix models, there are also many differences. Books, and audiobooks are larger and heavier than DVD movies. BookLender ships multiple books per order Media Mail with the exception of one membership and sends its audiobooks individually via First Class Mail. Another major difference is that books and audiobooks provide many more hours of entertainment than movies. The average length of a movie is just under 2 hours, while the average length of a book is around 12 hours.
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Several years ago I happened to be introduced to Reed Hastings, the founder and CEO of Netflix, at a Little League baseball game. I was already a subscriber to Netflix at that point and got to ask Hastings the question that had been nagging me:
This was before Netflix began streaming video to the home; the entire business was in DVDs sent via the US Postal System. The odd thing about Netflix was that a customer got unlimited usage: all the DVDs you can watch for a fixed-price subscription (at that time, around $20/month). I assumed that Netflix had an interest in handling those DVDs by mail as slowly as possible, but the fact was that the mailings were becoming more efficient: mail a DVD on a Tuesday and a replacement DVD would arrive on Thursday. Why did Netflix do so good a job in what was clearly against its economic interests?
It is certain that all the business people in the media industry are studying Netflix; publishers, too. The likelihood of an online subscription model for books seems inevitable, as someone is bound to try to copy Netflix. This has already happened for print books, where BookSwim has copied the Netflix model, but BookSwim, which lacks licenses with the publishers, works only in print, which is inherently limited because of the cost and time involved with shipping books.
If someone wanted to knock Amazon off its pedestal, an all-you-can-eat subscription model might be the trick. But who would do this? It would be hard to aggregate all this content in digital form. Right now the contestants would appear to be the troubled Barnes & Noble, Google, Apple (whose collection of titles is disappointing), Kobo (whose position has been undermined by the bankruptcy of Borders, its principal client), and Amazon itself.
For Penguin or any other publisher to do this, it will need to hone its direct-marketing skills, and it will need to have the technology to deliver the works in digital form, preferably in a way that does not encourage piracy. It is thus likely that the proprietary systems of Amazon, Apple, etc., will soon be competing with service providers that create subscription-based applications for publishers, just as we now have in the library market for journals, where the likes of HighWire, Atypon, SilverChair, and AIP compete for clients.
I wonder if Project Muse, or JSTOR, or Oxford Online, which are all rolling out aggregations of scholarly books to sell to libraries via subscription could extend the service to individuals on your Netflix model? This is a very intriguing idea, which deserves further exploration by university presses.
A Netflix approach also allows (and requires) publishers to focus more clearly on using context to promote discovery, access and trial. It will also help is compete by providing readers with tools that draw upon context to help them manage abundance.
Another challenge: many readers of scholarly books are faculty or students. If MUSE, et al., manage to offer UP content across a wide swath of the academic library market, why would individual customers need subscriptions? How would an individual-person subscription offering for books differ from what they get at the library? How would pubs cluster content to appeal to individuals?
The GAang flies away on Appa while Zuko shoots another fireball towards them and for some reason, Katara can suddenly bend water 100s of feet up while previously only being able to move water forwards and backwards; felt very out of place. Aang discovers Gyatso and can calm down by thinking about him; I think that was a nice touch, better than Katara calming him down I think.
Can I just mention that it makes no sense for the mailcarts to drive UP? They never show someone bending them up and even if they did, it would need to be continuously being bent up to work like that. In the original, they even showed how the mailcarts go up again with bending. Here it is just a quick way to get Katara and Sokka up the city without explaining or showing how it works.
One of the few saving graces of this episode is that they thought about the Jennamite lamps; yay! For Zuko to infiltrate Omashu he needs clothes so he pulls a soldier into a bush and changes into his outfit in less than a second, even the helmet is still moving; hidden talent I guess.
In a small scene, it gets revealed that the GAang was in fact encountering the pirates (which is mentioned like a rumor) and traveled through the Great Divide and helped with the Canyon Crawlers which is odd because that technically and logically should be after Senlin Village. if you would draw their journey on a map with that knowledge they would need to go through the Great Divide again just to visit Senlin, which makes no sense.
The Blue Spirit segment for the most part was awesome, they got the mask perfect, and fighting and escaping was sick. Some weird full-character CG moments here though for sure. The Agni Kai between Ozai and Zuko had way more fighting than I anticipated but I actually liked it like that; I wish they would have kept the normal people watching it though.
The Northern Water Tribe for the most part looks really good! They cut the empty parts and moved the layout a bit for I do like the design! Especially the temple works really well in live action. I also like that they show how they prepare the front of the wall with some ice in the water.
The visual and sound design of Koizilla is awesome, although maybe a bit too dark. I am glad they skipped Zuko carrying Aang into the blizzard, it made no sense in the original of him carrying Aang that far. Koizilla CGI was nice.
The CGI is for the most part really good, I love the bending effects, although earthbending was definitely the weakest effect. The environments look stunning. The show does have a big problem with full CG characters and their physics though, some parts were really obviously CG and for me, that was really distracting.
i dont like how they cut most of roku and replace him by kyoshi, you know its because of him war started and he was previous avatar that should help aang, He needs to tell him what is going on not the kyoshi.
Everyone wants their book to get turned into a movie. And lots (so it seems) of books get turned into movies, and/or they get \u201Coptioned,\u201D which is a word you\u2019ve probably heard if you spend anytime around publishing news/writers on twitter. But $5 says you don\u2019t know what it means. I really didn\u2019t understand what it meant until I actually went through the process with one of my clients! But let me demystify this for you here.
Today, we\u2019re going to go over the basics of what this means and how it may or may not lead to your book getting made into a movie or TV show. One thing is for sure: getting optioned isn\u2019t a guarantee your book will hit the big screen. But it\u2019s the first step.
An option is an agreement where author gives a producer/production company/screenwriter/someone the rights to try and get the movie \u201Cset up.\u201D There\u2019s a time period involved, usually a year with provisions for another year extension, and an amount paid to the author for each of those years. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all it is. It is not a promise it will get made. It does not guarantee a big-name actor to star. It is not a guarantee it\u2019ll be on Netflix. It\u2019s just a start, something to get the ball rolling.
Why are so few books actually made into movies, even after they\u2019ve been optioned? Because it takes A LOT of things falling into place for a movie/TV show to get made. In this case let\u2019s say the person who optioned your books is a big name producer who already has a deal at Netflix (that means Netflix gets first dibs on the things she wants to do). That is LITERALLY half the battle, because a movie needs: a producer, stars, financing, a script, and a distributor\u2014at least. If you\u2019ve got a producer and a distributor (if Netflix likes it) then WOOO! you\u2019re ahead of the game.
But did you see all those other things? Someone needs to write a screenplay, and it is rarely the author, unless you are already an established screenwriter. And someone has to star in the movie, which often depends on the script/producer/money. Someone has to be on board to PAY for everything, which often depends on the script/produce/stars. Then someone has to distribute the movie or show, which either means send it out to movie theaters (in the After Times) or stream it online or broadcast it over the air. And you\u2019re not going to get that before you have a producer/script/star/money. These things come together like a complicated puzzle\u2014it\u2019s impossible until you get one part and then sometimes it all falls into place. This is all what getting \u201Cset up\u201D means.
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