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| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7122 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 57 of 97 24 September 2011 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Don't hold your breath!
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| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5419 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 58 of 97 24 September 2011 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha ha, yeah. They are very good at delaying things... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7122 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 59 of 97 24 September 2011 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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They still cling to the idea of a traditional, expensive publishing model, however the world has moved on!
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 60 of 97 24 September 2011 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Um... I'm pretty sure they're still making money hand over fist with their old fashioned publishing model. All they have to do is repackage it every few years. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7122 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 61 of 97 24 September 2011 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was thinking more about technology than profit.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 62 of 97 24 September 2011 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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In looking through another thread, I was reminded of another feature of MT courses that
I had forgotten about: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=28698&PN=1&TPN=6 Cainntear: Message 48 of 82 25 July 2011 at 12:06pm
I think that was quite important and should be retained in any MT-inspired courses. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 63 of 97 25 September 2011 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I think profit from the MT courses was really hurt with the ease in which the materials can be pirated. MT himself was worried about his material being stolen even years ago before the internet and was reluctant to record his sessions. I wouldn't be suprised if they never publish a new course. These recent MT course were the first courses they published in the internet age and after counting dollars and cents they've probably decided it's not worth it anymore. We'll likely be stuck with the crappy repackaged products I saw in the bookstore yesterday.
It always makes me wonder why Assimil has such a weird pricing scheme. They charge an extremely high price for the audio, which is easy to get for free, and charge a lower price for their books. If they were smarter, they should probably reverse that because I think for many of us we'd rather pay for a book rather than read a bunch of printed out PDFs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7122 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 64 of 97 25 September 2011 at 4:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Nothing is safe from digital piracy it seems. It only takes someone with the willingness to sit there for an hour or two and scan a book in, and convert audio files, which are often digital to begin with now anyway, and you're material is online for anyone to download. It's almost impossible to stop too. Even if you manage to get one site to take your material down, it will only pop up somewhere else and you'll have to go through the whole process again, like trying to keep molehills off your lawn!
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