A genre that mostly features shiny, shirtless men on its covers and sells ebooks for 99 cents a pop might seem unserious. But at stake are revenues sometimes amounting to a million dollars a year, with some authors easily netting six figures a month. The top authors can drop $50,000 on a single ad campaign that will keep them in the charts — and see a worthwhile return on that investment. In other words, self-published romance is no joke.
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The Highest-Earning Musicians Of 2017
Of the tens of millions these big pop stars earn, note that selling records and streaming accounts for a small percentage.
When Your Kid Becomes A Big Social Media Star (It’s Lucrative!)
YouTube is the pinnacle, with the highest earners – 7m subscribers or more – able to demand $300,000 for an ongoing video brand-partnership. On Instagram and Facebook, the biggest influencers are taking home anywhere between $150,000 to $187,000 per post. And even smaller “micro-influencers” with followings around 100,000 are able to command up to $5,000 per sponsored post – a pretty good living when you add it up at the end of the day.
At Comic-Con, Women Directors Say It’s Way Past Time To Get Some Parity In Hollywood
TV is marginally better than movies, but both are still pretty bad. “‘There’s a huge conversation around this issue, a lot of social media, press, but the statistics haven’t really changed,’ said Kirsten Schaffer, executive director of Women in Film.”
Writing Is Like Running, Sure, If You Mean Lonely, Hard, Long-Distance Running
“Both are acts of endurance and solitude. They require a lot of patience, enough confidence and nerve to keep going, and the acceptance of failure.”
The California Guy Who Became A Superstar In China Before Returning To Find Fame At Home
Daniel Wu, now starring on Into the Badlands on AMC, is from the Bay Area and attended architecture school at the University of Oregon. Then he visited Hong Kong, and was spotted by a talent scout. He says, “As a kid growing up in the ’70s, ’80s, as a person of color, I didn’t see a future for that. In my field, there was a roadblock. And so, I basically had to go to Asia and get successful there in order to come back here to have success here.”
A Challenge To All Architects: Walk Through Your Building Wearing A Skirt
Transparent walkways and glass walkways are quite, quite common – including in architecture schools. “This not only affects the women who work and study in those buildings — according to the Assn. of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 42% of accredited architecture degrees were awarded to women in 2013 — but it normalizes the idea among architecture students that transparent walkways are just a benign architectural feature. They are not.”
Artificial Intelligence Only Understands People With A Very Specific Accent
Turns out Alexa, Siri, Google’s Assistant and other AI voice responsive systems really understand West Coast English. Everything else? Wellllllll … let’s say that even if you’re a native English speaker, but you’re from the South or Midwest? They’ll understand you less often. Worse: “People with nonnative accents, however, faced the biggest setbacks. In one study that compared what Alexa thought it heard versus what the test group actually said, the system showed that speech from that group showed about 30 percent more inaccuracies.”
The Me Too Moment Of Photojournalism
Wow: “Photojournalists described behavior from editors and colleagues that ranged from assault to unwanted advances to comments on their appearance or bodies when they were trying to work. And now, as the #MeToo moment has prompted change across a range of industries—from Hollywood to broadcasting to the arts—photojournalists are calling for their own moment of reckoning.”
You Want A Legacy? Get Your Info On Microfilm, Because It Lasts For 500 Years
University libraries are giving them away, but “the microfilm machine is still widely used. It has centuries of lasting power ahead of it, and new models are still being manufactured. It’s a shame that no intrigue will greet their arrival, because these machines continue to prove essential for preserving and accessing archival materials.”