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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
madires:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 15, 2023, 02:32:50 am ---Now if we want it we have to pay for it direct from Adam's otherwise he doesn't get paid anything. Whereas before he got paid via newspaper syndication rights and by advertising revenue on the website email list (again, via the syndication company who controlled it).
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From what I've been told by artists, syndication companies keep a large part of the proft for their services unless you're a super star, i.e. you're in a strong position when negotiating. So some artists switched to promoting and selling their art/content directly and say that they make more money than with syndication. No free DIlbert for me anymore. However, we don't know if Adam might be even better off without syndication.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 11:46:12 am ---Examples of how to do it: in the 60s people like Martin Luther King Jr
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Who is now ironically being or has been "cancelled".
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: madires on May 15, 2023, 12:57:46 pm ---However, we don't know if Adam might be even better off without syndication.
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He should be.
He still owns all the rights, he just has to build up a reader base again.
He's just announced he is branching out onto twitter subscriptions for $2/month.
And there is no reason he can't build up a website and mailing list again supported by adsense ads just like before. Although I doubt he'll do that, as the new subscription model might work better financially.
IIRC he has 115k followers on Locals. i don't know how many of those pay $8/month though, or just follow, but it's a lot. Will be interestng to see how many subscriber twitter gets, although are those stats even available?
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 15, 2023, 01:14:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 11:46:12 am ---Examples of how to do it: in the 60s people like Martin Luther King Jr
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Who is now ironically being or has been "cancelled".
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Really? Why? The reasons matter.
One thing I do object to is judging past people by today's standards. If you do that, then you have to condemn Thomas Jefferson because he was a slave owner - and that obviously overrules everything else he did. Doesn't it?
In that vein there is always an MGM "family entertainment" film that won all 9 Oscars for which it was nominated (inc best film and director), and has been preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The whole film is about grooming a girl to be a prostitute. Family entertainment?!
The film? Gigi, of course - containing the famous Maurice Chevalier song "Thank heaven for little girls" (For little girls get bigger every day). Even as a kid I thought that was yucky. Attitudes do change, sometimes for the better.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 04:18:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 15, 2023, 01:14:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 11:46:12 am ---Examples of how to do it: in the 60s people like Martin Luther King Jr
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Who is now ironically being or has been "cancelled".
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Really? Why? The reasons matter.
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It's because his idea is the polar opposite of the wokies. He said that merit matters and not your skin.
It's a stupid idea, obviously, since everyone knows that white people are just the source of all evil, and should be punished for things that happened 150 years ago (also the union ones that were fighting against it). :-//
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