LOOSER THAN LOOSE PUBLISHING TO CLOSE
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:22 pm
Dave Stevenson has announced via Facebook that Looser Than Loose Publishing will cease operations:
"Looser Than Loose, our little DVD business, will be shutting down permanently very soon. Too many people, it seems, would rather badger our known customers for "free" copies, or buy duped discs at conventions than buy their own genuine LTL DVDs and support our efforts. We just can't afford to keep absorbing postage increases, taxes, fees and rises in material costs, let alone the procuring of new material. Some people have been very kind and generous in granting us permission to use their source materials, prints, art, etc. Unfortunately, too many people on the other end of scale feel 'entitled' to the material free of charge, simply because they are fans of the artists on the discs or any one of a host of unacceptable alternative reasons. We spend a lot of time transferring film and video, retitling, scoring, tweaking and programming the DVDs, generating artwork, promoting and making the DVDs to order. It is becoming impossible to find the enthusiasm necessary to keep up the effort knowing there are many more people interested in helping themselves to the results without sharing in the cost, than there are good decent people willing to help sustain our projects. Therefore, Looser Than Loose will put out one or two more planned discs and shut its virtual doors. If you wish to support the business you can go to www.looserthanloose and buy something - we'd love to have the business. If you feel entitled to free copies, you start a business, you pay the taxes and fees, you buy the equipment, you purchase the software, you procure the materials, you restore the music, you author the discs, you generate the orders, you design and print the artwork, you pay for the website and promotion, you accept a lousy $6 for postage and shell out $14 at the counter and then you deal with the people who think your efforts are worth nothing." -- Dave Stevenson
Bootlegging, the theft of both audio and video, is not a victimless crime -- and here is prime
example of the consequences. The ranks of silent film proponents are thinning, friends.
Paul E. Gierucki
"Looser Than Loose, our little DVD business, will be shutting down permanently very soon. Too many people, it seems, would rather badger our known customers for "free" copies, or buy duped discs at conventions than buy their own genuine LTL DVDs and support our efforts. We just can't afford to keep absorbing postage increases, taxes, fees and rises in material costs, let alone the procuring of new material. Some people have been very kind and generous in granting us permission to use their source materials, prints, art, etc. Unfortunately, too many people on the other end of scale feel 'entitled' to the material free of charge, simply because they are fans of the artists on the discs or any one of a host of unacceptable alternative reasons. We spend a lot of time transferring film and video, retitling, scoring, tweaking and programming the DVDs, generating artwork, promoting and making the DVDs to order. It is becoming impossible to find the enthusiasm necessary to keep up the effort knowing there are many more people interested in helping themselves to the results without sharing in the cost, than there are good decent people willing to help sustain our projects. Therefore, Looser Than Loose will put out one or two more planned discs and shut its virtual doors. If you wish to support the business you can go to www.looserthanloose and buy something - we'd love to have the business. If you feel entitled to free copies, you start a business, you pay the taxes and fees, you buy the equipment, you purchase the software, you procure the materials, you restore the music, you author the discs, you generate the orders, you design and print the artwork, you pay for the website and promotion, you accept a lousy $6 for postage and shell out $14 at the counter and then you deal with the people who think your efforts are worth nothing." -- Dave Stevenson
Bootlegging, the theft of both audio and video, is not a victimless crime -- and here is prime
example of the consequences. The ranks of silent film proponents are thinning, friends.
Paul E. Gierucki