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Two nights ago, it seemed that the NHL players and a group of owners, meeting without the lightning-rod lawyers of both cabals, had narrowed the gap in their negotiations to manageable term issues. How long would the deal last? And how long could teams sign players for? The differences were in small single digits. I settle cases weekly over smaller gaps. And yet, when the suits showed back up yesterday, it all went to bloody hell, and now nobody's talking with nobody again, concessions (and I don't mean beers and salty pretzels) have been pulled off the table, and we're suddenly closer than ever to our second all-out canceled season in less than a decade.
A pox on both your houses.
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My LJ friend hooton linked to an even more depressing article relative to my own situation. Yes! TYTBABS! Heeee.....was....my....2012Nano!!!!!!!
Problem is, the things that other friends of mine did to self-publish? And nonetheless gain massive online pub and presence for their self-publications by leveraging Amazon's need to add such books, and e-books, to their catalogs? Jeffy doesn't need so much, now that our Justice Department has beaten back the Big Six Five However Many Are Left in their efforts to monopolize bookseller pricing through their coordinated "agency model." This effort has now reduced the prices of the Kings/Rices/Rowlings of our world, and the niches for n00bs are now disappearing:
( TL;DR unless you're actually an author )
Dec. 7th, 2012
Two nights ago, it seemed that the NHL players and a group of owners, meeting without the lightning-rod lawyers of both cabals, had narrowed the gap in their negotiations to manageable term issues. How long would the deal last? And how long could teams sign players for? The differences were in small single digits. I settle cases weekly over smaller gaps. And yet, when the suits showed back up yesterday, it all went to bloody hell, and now nobody's talking with nobody again, concessions (and I don't mean beers and salty pretzels) have been pulled off the table, and we're suddenly closer than ever to our second all-out canceled season in less than a decade.
A pox on both your houses.
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My LJ friend hooton linked to an even more depressing article relative to my own situation. Yes! TYTBABS! Heeee.....was....my....2012Nano!!!!!!!
Problem is, the things that other friends of mine did to self-publish as recently as a year or so ago? And which gained massive online pub and presence for their self-publications by leveraging Amazon's need to add such books, and e-books, to their catalogs? Well, Jeffy doesn't need them (i.e., me) so much, now that our Justice Department has beaten back the Big Six Five However Many Are Left in their efforts to monopolize bookseller pricing through their coordinated "agency model." This effort has now reduced the prices of the Kings/Rices/Rowlings of our world, and the niches for n00bs are now disappearing:
( TL;DR unless you're actually an author )