{"id":5500,"date":"2011-04-07T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T06:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/07\/links-for-2011-04-07\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T06:58:49","slug":"links-for-2011-04-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/07\/links-for-2011-04-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-04-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2011\/04\/06\/revenue-streams-2010\/\">Revenue Streams 2010 \u00c2\u00ab Whatever<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In my continuing quest to demystify things related to the business of writing, at least inasmuch as they relate to me, today I am going to talk revenue streams. As many of you know, I am a huge proponent of writers having multiple revenue streams, so that when one of them cuts out on you &#8212; and it will cut out on you &#8212; you still have money coming in while you look for something to replace the income you&#8217;ve lost. I am also a huge proponent of recognizing that even within an individual stream of income, there can and will be substantial variation from year to year.<\/p>\n<p>To make these points, I&#8217;m going to lay out to you my own revenue streams for 2010, and point out what I currently expect from each of these in the coming year.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/whatever\">whatever<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobiasbuckell.com\/2011\/04\/01\/a-year-of-selling-tides-from-the-new-worlds\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TobiasBuckell+%28Tobias+S.+Buckell+Online%29\">A year of selling Tides From The New Worlds at Tobias Buckell Online<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;A very common assertion is that if you just drop the price to 99 cents, people will flock to the deal and &#8216;volume will make up for the lost margin.&#8217; It&#8217;s a mantra that&#8217;s very strongly believed. To be honest, I think that works somewhat, because it boosts discoverability (it&#8217;s cheap to try a new author), and I think having something as a 99 cent &#8216;lead in&#8217; discovery book\/title is a good idea, but I don&#8217;t think its a strategy to depend on.<\/p>\n<p>So a year ago, I made the eBook version of Tides From The New Worlds, and I&#8217;ve been experimenting with covers and price to test how it effects sales.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/buckell\">buckell<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uslhc.us\/a-hint-of-something-new-in-wdijets-at-cdf\">US LHC Blog \u00c2\u00bb A hint of something new in &#8220;W+dijets&#8221; at CDF<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Even though its running days are numbered, the Tevatron reminds us that it can still muster up an interesting hint of new physics. This is a quick post on a brand new result from the CDF collaboration, &#8220;Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with a W boson in p-pbar Collisions at Sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV&#8221; [arXiv:1104.0699]. Just to whet your appetite, here&#8217;s one of the plots that we&#8217;d like to understand (hot off the press!):<\/p>\n<p>Unpacking the title<br \/>\nBefore diving in, let&#8217;s first understand what the title means. It&#8217;s somewhat cumbersome, but that&#8217;s because it encodes a lot of good physics. It turns out that it&#8217;s easier to start at the end of the title and work our way backwards.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/lhc-blogs\">lhc-blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue Streams 2010 \u00c2\u00ab Whatever &#8220;In my continuing quest to demystify things related to the business of writing, at least inasmuch as they relate to me, today I am going to talk revenue streams. 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