The Smell of Commerce: How Companies use Scents to sell their Products

[Christopher White]

Originally Posted by Dowly

And the prize for this years "Overreaction of the Year" competition goes to...

Nah. This one doesn't beat the time earlier this year when an ISP pulled the plug on a site that had stolen my work. (Far more blatantly than this case, I hasten to add.)

As a freelancer, intellectual property rights are all I'm selling. I produce work on the basis that someone is going to pay me to publish that work. I can not then accept other people taking it for free.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Christopher White

As a freelancer, intellectual property rights are all I'm selling. I produce work on the basis that someone is going to pay me to publish that work. I can not then accept other people taking it for free.

Mmm... the article is available for free to everyone already, isn't it?

But, I'm sure Feuer Frei! removes the article once he comes online.

[Christopher White]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Mmm... the article is available for free to everyone already, isn't it?

But, I'm sure Feuer Frei! removes the article once he comes online.

The Indy's website, like the newspaper, carries adverts. Those adverts pay for staff and freelancers. The more of an article you reproduce (or the more places it is available to view) the fewer views there are on the newspaper's site -- simple supply and demand. The fewer views there are on the newspaper's site, the less advertising revenue they receive. The less advertising revenue they receive, the less freelancers like me get paid.

Which is why I have to be an arsehole about it. Sorry.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Christopher White

The Indy's website, like the newspaper, carries adverts. Those adverts pay for staff and freelancers. The more of an article you reproduce (or the more places it is available to view) the fewer views there are on the newspaper's site -- simple supply and demand. The fewer views there are on the newspaper's site, the less advertising revenue they receive. The less advertising revenue they receive, the less freelancers like me get paid.

Which is why I have to be an arsehole about it. Sorry.

Ah right, of course. That makes sense.

[Onkel Neal]

Glad to see this resolved. I agree, only a paragraph or two should be copied, with a link to the source.

Does the subtle hint of coffee make you more likely to buy a cup? Does the aroma of piña colada cause parents to linger in toy shops? Christopher White gets a sniff of the companies using scents to sell.

The smell of commerce: How companies use scents to sell their products

Good story, too.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Glad to see this resolved. I agree, only a paragraph or two should be copied, with a link to the source.

Will keep that in mind.

[Onkel Neal]

Thanks, buddy

Now Chris has to gp after these dudes

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Glad to see this resolved. I agree, only a paragraph or two should be copied, with a link to the source.

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Will keep that in mind.

Now somebody needs to tell Vendor. Two or three new threads today, all with the entire article quoted.