Free speech is alive and well and living in Grogans (Short Story) - 5/27/2016 1:59:40 PM
Welcome to AD, you have a nice readable writing style
Please, post more .... poem or two, maybe an article and more short stories .... the more things you post the more readers you will attract to your work
Best wishes for success as you continue your writing
m
What's so funny? (Article) - 9/4/2016 1:27:38 AM
I enjoyed your article on the subject of humor in all its unintended forms, and the flip side of greatness without self-awareness.
What's so funny? (Article) - 9/3/2016 10:04:12 AM
Your article was both funny and rewarding in its revelations about humor in our lives and how we view ourselves. I still can't stop laughing over that incontinent joke.
Ron
Why do you want to be an Accountant? (Article) - 8/24/2016 12:43:01 AM
You've taken a dry subject and elevated it to solvency. Let it be said, I appreciate my accountant.
Why do you want to be an Accountant? (Article) - 8/23/2016 11:36:35 AM
Accounting may be a dashing science in Ireland but here in good old America it has always been a rather boring experience of bean counting. Unless, of course, one has a Machiavelli sense of using accounting to "get ahead," and become a high paid CEO.
I am an engineer. Engineers making scientific discoveries reality created the prosperity of the 20th century. But, in the fat, lazy last 20 years of the 20th century, the accountants who controlled budgets took over the role of leading innovation through the big eight accounting firms in the United States and started making money by manipulating money rather than creating better goods and services.
As a result, the accountants were, and may still be, one of the highest paid professions, companies outsourced all their higher-paying jobs except for accountants and administrators who got even higher salaries for doing so, and managed to find ways to avoid taxes and to offshore much of the funds to do so. As a result of exciting accounting, the rich got richer, and the poor got trickle-down. Bad economics.
In order to save my undervalued engineering expertise, I spent the last 20 years of my dwindling career keeping accounts and exposing bad strategies by shifty accountants trying to pull the wool over the eyes of those not in numbers.
Ron
Self-publishing - price elasticity and market dynamics (Article) - 8/17/2016 12:04:05 AM
Ron beat me to the punch line. I wholeheartedly agree that the overall quality of books has declined due to the ease in plastering an ebook on Amazon and slapping a $.99 price tag on it so the reader doesn't feel the burn if the book is lousy.
You're not the first to suggest pricing an ebook at $2.99. Never one to follow trends or pander to anyone, mine will be priced at $3.99.
Self-publishing - price elasticity and market dynamics (Article) - 8/15/2016 12:54:36 PM
Interesting analysis. The, Internet like so many other innovations, in books and music, once held firm by powerful publishers, has greatly reduced the cost of books. Ebooks are particularly vulnerable because they can be easily copied and spread among friends the way that music and movies are now pirated and offered for free everywhere.
I believe the key to pricing a book is fame or infamy. It doesn't matter what the quality is inside, if the author or the subject has either of those two qualities, the masses will pay for it, whatever the price. The result is that while many more people are now publishing what they write and selling it, the overall quality of books has declined. As I recall, I read all the classics by checking them out free from libraries and didn't own a book until I acquired some that were in a house I bought.
Ron
