From Grant in Toronto:
The Toronto Public Library has 8 copies of the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and guess what collection it’s under?
Non-fiction! Hooray!
By the way, why don’t authors bitch when their books are being “illegally shared” at the library? How is that not analogous to a musicians work being shared on the internet? You have my permission to buy and share the Gospel with as many people as you like. Spread the Word.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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At least in the UK, as far as I know authors get royalties from library loans too. Probably only a couple of pence for every 100 borrows or something, but it’s more analogous to a musician’s work being shared on the radio.
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Meant to say for every 1000. Unlikely to get rich from it anyway, even if all all of us go and borrow it from our local library once a month to bump up the figures a bit.
And, yay, I got gold.
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The library books could also get authors new fans, ever read one book by someone and then looked out for anything more of theirs after?
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all obey the flying spaghetti monsters noodles of goodness, and buy the gospel now. sincerly-pastafariankurt
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Actually there is some kind of system in Canada where they do a check of the author and his/her books in libraries across the land, and they get a certain amount of money for them. As an author, you have to get your name on the list.
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So what are they filed under? Humour or religion?
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tin.
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Dammit, Iron Bess. You cut me off. ;-)
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@Len Guini – ‘Dammit, Iron Bess. You cut me off. ;-)’
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I only cut guys off if they are either too horny or too drunk! :)
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Yay!!!
Good for Toronto :D
Is it under religion though?
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Miscellaneous writings, in the literature section. I was curious enough (and bored enough) to look it up.
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And now for translations, otherwise the spreading will be refined to the English-speaking world! The XVIthe century protestants knew what they were doing when performing their church services in the local language, while the RC kept it in Latin till the sixties of the XXth century!
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@Jennyanydots Nov 1st, 2007 at 6:20 am: “Miscellaneous writings, in the literature section. I was curious enough (and bored enough) to look it up.”
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Well, as long as they put the bible and the koran there too…
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Why, I lament, do British liburaries stock the ‘Bible’ in thousands and leave our noodly master’s work away. WHY?
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I think the biggest issue with music on the net, is that people are making copies. I dont think Bobby would be too happy if someone borrowed the Gospel and made a copy for all their friends, instead of have them buy a copy.
My 2 cents
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I claim Sweet fifteen!
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Hmmm… I agree with Spam-A-Lot. Borrowing from the library is one thing, making copies for everyone on the world wide web is another. Not to mention, Bobby needs the income for the Pirate Ship, to stop global warming. :)
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Bobby needs help from the multitudes to help him come up with some more money making ideas. Personally I think he should apply for religious status, at least that way he does not have to pay taxes.
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I was going to say to sell FSM Parafernalia…but I noticed the link…hehehe
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The Crabtree mall in Raleigh has this shop that sells bows and neckties(is that a word?), so me and my girlfriend went over there and kept looking in the religion/spirituality section until the dude working there came over and asked us if we needed help… He told us it would be in the novelty section =(
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We found a spaghetti tie… although, no monster in sight… Unless the FSM was wearing spaghetti camouflage.
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By the way, I think non-fiction is better than religion, on that note.
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FSMism is based on science, mind you.
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yeah, non-fiction means absolutely true. so that’s better then religion, we’re plain truth.
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Score!
Ha, we are better than the bibul!
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In the UK it’s called the Public Lending Right. The number of loans is calculated using a selected number of libraries. Authors are then paid a maximum of about £6,000 (c$12,000).
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I think Bobby should put a clause in his book just like Stephen Colbert put in “I Am America and So Can You” about not lending it to people. Everyone has to buy their own copy (or multiple copies) and no libraries will be carrying it. He says, “No freebees!” (By the way.. hilarious read for all my fellow Pastafarians… after you read the Gospel at least 5 times, of course…)
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The FSM Gospel in non-fiction?
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I get this warm fuzzy feeling inside of me now that we’ve won, even a little battle. I’ve shared the FSM with many people and have spread His Noodly Word, not to mention I dressed like a pirate yesterday!
Are there any popely duties that I’m forgetting?
RAmen,
-PP Jr.
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Did you eat pasta?
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Did you have a lot of beer?
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@Black Hearted Jake – yep, sounds like the same thing they do in Canada. I wonder if Bobby is registered?
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Looking at the screen shot the gospel appears to be under “Religion – Humour”.
That doesn’t feel like a victory.
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just because somethings funny doesn’t make it any less factual. hell, if anything it shows we don’t have a stick up our ass when it comes to our beleifs
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Perhaps they placed it in humor because it’s satirical.
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Those look like keywords used for search. There probabaly is no such category in the libarary as “religion – humour”.
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Quote: By the way, why don’t authors bitch when their books are being “illegally shared” at the library? How is that not analogous to a musicians work being shared on the internet?
Because book publishers have deals with libraries. And libraries make not millions of dollars.
Internet dealers (of various kind, incl. the Russian mafia) have no deals with music publishers or musicians, or labels, and they do make millions of dollars.
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When libraries purchase books for public use, they are purchasing the license to own the material. So, they aren’t just paying the price of the book; they are paying over twice that much in order to have the book in their catalogues.
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The correct answer is: they did. In the old days (e.g. before the rise of mass publishing) authors & printers were terrified that libraries would put them out of business. Instead it whetted the public’s appetite for books and the result is what we see today. Apparently in 1800 there were only ~80000 serious readers in England; in 1850 the number were ~5 million. Source: Copyright chapter of Ross Anderson’s “Security Engineering”, based a description in the book “Information Rules” by Shapiro and Varian.
Not that this is *exactly* analogous to the media industry, but I think it’s pretty close. There’s no sign of decrease in people visiting the cinema or buying dvds, quite the opposite. I think the main people who suffer are those like Blockbuster. My opinion is that the personal use of information should not be covered by copyright law—it certainly never was historically. Selling copyrighted material for a profit is another matter.
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The Gospel is nonfiction in my library too. I checked it out a few months back.
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I ordered my copy of the gospel last week (they didn’t have it in stock) for 25 australian dubloons. the counter woman gave me a strange look when i asked for it and seemed relieved when it came up in the humour catagory. i think it’s disgraceful that they should mock our beliefs so.
as a side note, it’s going to take 10 working days to come in; is friday a working day? im a uni student so i dont ever work anyway but i am in somewhat of a conundrum because if i demand that friday be observed as a religious holiday it will take LONGER for me to get the gospel… i must ask the glorious noodly one for advice
Ramen
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5 working days just sounds better than 2 weeks, the standard week includes Friday when thry’re talking about working, in some countries the working week is 6 days.
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I meant 10 woking days sounds better than 2 weeks
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any way of spreading the noodly word is good in my barnacly book!
yarrr
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I just got the Gospel from the library and twas under Non-Fiction (in no particular order whatsoever! I had to search high and low in a jumble of random books to find it). It really speaks to me, and I’m only on page twenty! :D
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We have just received a copy at the Kitchener Public Library (Ontario).
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Shouldn’t we push to have the book located in the religion section of the library? Somewhere between ‘The Book of Mormon” and “The Holy Bible?
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The library has put this book in the religion-humour section, and I am pushing to get it located in the religion section.
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