Hi,

I will have time to get some work done tonight.

I just read the article Heather wrote on DOD. It is
very good! Luckily you were online Karen at the time
it went up to correct her on dkr3 :) :)

I have made two snap decisions without talking to
either of you about them.

I just replied to an email from Tamara. She wanted me
to add a page to her pdf file telling people who
purchase her patterns through us to subscribe to her
mailing list.

I told her I can't do that because then I'd have to do
it for every designer and I don't have the time. I
told her I use PrimoFDP which is a free program to add
the extra pages to an existing PDF file. She knows
about that program and if she wants the extra added
about subscribing to her mailing list she can add that
page, then we can add our page at the bottom.

I also told her another option is for us to send her
the bottom page, she can add to her pdf file, then
password protect the pdf file.

I hope you two agree with me when I turned her down
about adding more information about her own site to
the PDF file. If we're not careful they'll have us
working 24 hours a day on updating their PDF files to
their personal preferences.

She also suggest we should change the text on the page
we add to the bottom of their PDF file.
Again I said 'No'.

She wanted me to add text below to our copyright
page...

Also, there's something you might want to include in
your copyright information. Copright law give a
purchaser the right to give or sell a pattern, but
only IF they haven't yet stitched it, and only IF they
destroy any other copies they may have. I say this
because I give my customers the limited permission of
reprinting a page or so if an emergency such as water
damage or the like comes up.

I told her we didn't want to encourage any copying or
selling of PDF files even if it is legal! I also told
her most people keep any pdf files they purchase on
their computer or on a flash drive and they will print
and reprint as often as they wish, permission or not.

She has just responded to my email to her.

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Oh, and it's all good about the copyright thingy. I
was thinking along the lines you had mentioned after I
sent the email. Plus, adding what I suggested would
most likely confuse more than advise.

Also, I decided that I can do without the customers I
will be making on DOD in my mailing list. I have over
a thousand now, and I bet barely 75% of them actually
buy anyway, they're all on it for the freebies.
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You see how quickly they will back out of something if
we ask them to do the extra work they want on their
PDF files? Be careful girls, if they think you will
do the work for them, they will sit back and let you
do all the work every time they think of some little
bit of extra text they want on their pdf files.

Normally I would have waited and talked over these two
subject with you before I responded to her, but I
leave in just over 24 hours and time is against me.

Do I have your backing on the two decisions I made?

Rick


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