Making a Living

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Comment by Iyiola on February 13, 2009 at 1:15pm

Talent is a precious gift from God which is embeded in us and we must try to figure out our talents and make the best of it ,cause its really helps a lots..Talent brings ovation to us,if we discovered ourself at any point of time in our life.....

Comment by kayiwa on March 30, 2008 at 9:38am

Making a living as an artist is very good and possible
To me i see this as talent and in the 21st century, Talent Identification is the key to success so people who discover their talents and use them perfectly like the musicians, footballers and so on they rely make a living.

Comment by Sasha Mrkailo on March 26, 2008 at 12:05pm

So Paulo Coelho is making a living by giving. Is that a good way of making a living? Yes , I think so. Is that posible for every artists (scientist, dancer, musician ... ) I am not sure but I feel it is a good model. But I imagine same, or similar scheme could be applicable to other creative endeavors.
I mean I had always had the idea that if a writer writes something , his main need is to be heard, so he can have an impact on his audience. If he gates his work with copyright isn't that kind of building of walls against potential reader ( book byers)?

Comment by Sasha Mrkailo on March 24, 2008 at 4:44pm

From this page http://cyrescafe.net/blog/storyteller/pirate-coe

In 1999, best-selling author Paulo Coelho, who wrote “The Alchemist,” was failing in Russia. That year he sold only about 1,000 books, and his Russian publisher dropped him. But after he found another, Coelho took a radical step. On his own Web site, launched in 1996, he posted a digital Russian copy of “The Alchemist.
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With no additional promotion, print sales picked up immediately. Within a year he sold 10,000 copies; the next year around 100,000. By 2002 he was selling a total of a million copies of multiple titles. Today, Coelho’s sales in Russian are over 10 million and growing.

Comment by Sasha Mrkailo on March 24, 2008 at 4:40pm

Paulo Coelho makes a living and he supports public domain, or maybe the better description is open access. http://paulocoelhoblog.com/
http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com/
http://cyrescafe.net/blog/storyteller/pirate-coelho/

I dont care what is the name if the public can use it freely.
But of course pure Public Domain is the bes choice. the question is how to make it more acceptable for wide masses of users?
Maybe Paulo is pointing in good direction.