Recent content by superlou

In my experience, right click is particularly ineffective (and annoying). I once worked on a site that had a set of photographs the photographer did not want downloadable. The end result was mostly complaints from users that couldn't copy-and-paste the address text on the website into google...

It does look like could be useful, though I'm a little torn at how being able to embed your own work in your own website is considered an extended feature. I'll have to look into their licenses. I was having trouble with the site on Chrome as well, though I didn't see the login issue. It...

Depending on where the feedback takes our features, the legal issues may not be a difficult as it seems. A system for splitting up donations is only as difficult as setting up the initial contracts, and we're looking at a few options where the accounting responsibility is not on our backs...

Sashamerideth, I am not a lawyer, but you are correct in your evaluation of the license. You must receive attribution and others can create derivative works. However, others cannot redistribute your work (or derivatives) for commercial gain, and we are considering allowing the author to...

I agree that coming up with a sane contracts model is an uphill battle as soon as money's involved. On top of that, it's very difficult to shift around small amounts of money without transaction fees piling up. With regards to selling through third parties, we are planning on requiring users...

As far as weeding out bad actors, we were thinking about a reputation system. There's obviously some issues with bootstrapping the system since there will be few reviews at first, but rating editors and authors the same way you'd rate books (1-5 stars and a note like "Worked well with my team...

I've come across Smashwords in my searching, and they seem to be the leader in online e-publishing. There's also Lulu who doesn't seem to be as popular (or as low cost) but has a prettier site. White these sites don't seem to provide is a community for each author. It's a one man band kind of...

So, the other day I was browsing Amazon for e-books, and I thought, these books are nice, but amateur writers are putting out stuff that's just as good. The only reason I'm not reading it is because it's typically scattered across the webs and in a myriad of formats that my cheap e-reader can't...