Theos-Talk Archives (November 2008 Message tt00490)

Theo,

I hope all Theos-Talk readers will read and re-read your post below.

It is all true.

Someone pays a price!!!

A researcher/writer/author -- whether an independent 
writer/researcher or an academic/scholar --- has to make a 
living...that is, pay for food, a place to stay, etc. etc. just like 
everybody else!!

So while it is good that there is FREE material on the Internet, 
someone has to pay for it, ie. pay for the research and the writing 
of it, and the cost of publication either in printed form or on the 
web.

Take my own research on Madame Blavatsky....I have always done it for 
the sheer love of it.  Never intended to make money off of it.  But 
it took money to do all the research I did.  Every article in my 
Blavatsky Archives cost money.  For example, one article was so rare 
that it took me 20 years to track it down.  I finally discovered it 
in the British Library but only after I had to pay for lots of 
microfilm, etc.   So that one article probably cost me hundreds of 
dollars to obtain. Of course then it had to be converted into a 
webpage format -- either typed or scanned, etc. etc.  That's going to 
cost money to!  Now anyone in the world can read the article for 
free....

Other researchers, authors, scholars, etc. do similar things and 
incur all sorts of expenses....Who pays for all of that????

Oftentime people forget all of this or never even considered it.

Daniel
http://hpb.cc










--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Theo Paijmans <th.paijmans@...> 
wrote:
>
> As a published author, here's the downside on all this freeloading. 
> Research into arcane and esoteric topics, often of very high 
> scholarship,  mostly comes from outside academia. Meaning: authors 
and 
> researchers who pay for the expenses, time and effort of their 
> endeavours themselves, instead of relying on grants, funds and 
stipends 
> to cover the costs.
> 
> Have you any idea just how much research costs in these so-called 
> 'enlightened times'? From personal experience I know that precisely 
> those files or documents that we search, are not always 
automatically 
> stored in the right and easily accessible archives. It costs time, 
and 
> money too, to trace and access these important historical source 
materials.
> 
> Then one writes a paper or a book. It may take years, years of hard 
> labour, of study and contemplation, with little monetary award. So 
one  
> gradually lives in ever more sober circumstances, almost like a 
monk. 
> Clothes, food, commodities as tv and radio, mobile phones, these 
are 
> commodities on which is saved.
> 
> Then the day arrives. The book is published. The writer has poured 
his 
> or her heart into it. Every droplet of sweat and every ounce of 
toil. 
> The writer sits back and awaits the response. At least, the 
courtesy of 
> people actually buying the book because the writer hopes that they 
are 
> as interested in and passionate about the subject as he or she is.
> 
> And while they did not write the book themselves, the writer did it 
for 
> them, and they in return support the writer. I know of many 
excellent 
> researchers who have quit for that reason. And the above is what 
they 
> told me as being the reason. Again, as a published author, I have 
> sympathy for their feelings.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Theo
> 
> Augoeides-222@... wrote:
> 
> > Daniel,
> > I totally agree the web is a virtual limitless cornucopia of 
knowledge 
> > that continues to amaze me!!! Google "Books" is another amazing 
> > resource. One can use it two ways. The first you use the website 
of 
> > Google Books and can perform searches by Author Name, Title or 
Topic. 
> > The second wonderful way is on Google Earth which one can 
activate by:
> > 1. Initializing Google Earth
> > 2. Clicking on "Gallery" in the "Layers" section on the left 
sidebar
> > 3. Scroll down the drop down Gallery contents menu and 
locate "Google 
> > Book Search"
> > 4. Place a check mark in the empty box
> >
> > Now whenever to zoom in close on Google Earth little gold Book 
Icons 
> > will be seen, place your cursor on an icon and the Title will 
appear, 
> > there is also a "more" option and a link to the PDF file. Many of 
the 
> > books are rare historic works that appear over the nation they 
speak 
> > of. many are free to download as shown by "Download" at the top 
right 
> > corner of the page for the Book.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> >
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