Re: [AGA-mcm] Media Sales Tallies

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Cheryl Rogers wrote:

> Okay. How about "Buy both and get two Aqua Journals FREE!"

Excellent!  Hmm, on second thought, there's a snag.  This could only work 
for US, because it would have to go Media Mail.  Part of the DVD's lower 
price is that I can send it out for $1.06 and in a cheap envelope with 
bubble wrap inside.  So unless the AquaJournals were used AS the padding 
material, we'd have to send them in more complicated or expensive padding.

> The ADA deal is a good thing. The conversation about flyers to go with them 
> sort of petered out and then my computer blew up. Then there's a guy in 
> Singapore who wants to promote them over there. But I wasn't certain about 
> the legalities of doing that. What exactly was the agreement with Amano about 
> using the convention talks?

OK, here's how the ADA deal ended up.

They don't want the other talks.  They just want Amano's presentations. 
They're planning on making their own DVD, along with stuff from his Amazon 
book.  I spent many hours last week recapturing the 10 hours of footage 
and spitting out a set of digital tapes, which are on their way to ADA 
this week.  I added some credits in these versions, for Tomoko, myself 
and Scott (as "second unit camera"), as well as an end title saying the 
entire convention DVD is available at www.aquatic-gardeners.org

Now Kathy and I were talking about this, and thinking "hmm, why would he 
be distributing an English translation of his presentation to his domestic 
Japanese customers?"  Which made us wonder if they'll end up chopping my 
edit up even further and putting other stuff on top of it.  On the other 
hand, I suspect that nobody has done a video like this of one of their 
demos.  Who knows.  In any case, I beleive they can do what they want with 
the footage, and I just hope they are kind enough to include the plug for 
the AGA.

  - Erik

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