Comments on: Rebutting the Seth Godin and Textbooks rant http://stephendann.com/2009/06/15/rebutting-the-seth-godin-and-textbooks-rant/ One marketer, one blog, many words Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Dann http://stephendann.com/2009/06/15/rebutting-the-seth-godin-and-textbooks-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-412 Stephen Dann Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:11:17 +0000 http://stephendann.com/?p=411#comment-412 @Seth Godin. Thanks for coming down to the blog, and thanks for the acknowledgement. We don't see eye to eye, so full props to you for coming to my blog to let me know the message was received. @Seth Godin.
Thanks for coming down to the blog, and thanks for the acknowledgement. We don’t see eye to eye, so full props to you for coming to my blog to let me know the message was received.

]]> By: abhi http://stephendann.com/2009/06/15/rebutting-the-seth-godin-and-textbooks-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-406 abhi Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:08:32 +0000 http://stephendann.com/?p=411#comment-406 Its interesting that just this morning I deleted a spam comment from someone trying to make money off of a Squidoo Page. A part of what that spammer generates via squidoo goes straight to Seth Godin. The single statement that really bothers me in Seth's post is his belief that writing a textbook should not make someone a millionaire. This coming from someone who is not averse to making millions off of letting spammers pollute the internet with the sort of drivel you find on squidoo. I have a lot of respect for Seth Godin's marketing skills. However, its rather wrong of him to attack a Professor making money from a calculus textbook. Anyone who excels in their field and creates huge value ought to get rewarded. There are people who are making millions off of random Internet sites, by playing professional sports and doing lots of other things that aren't necessarily ground-breaking. People who are doing huge value-add jobs like doctors and teachers and scientists ought to be making millions. If we could do an analysis of the benefit that calculus textbook has provided to students over the years and compared it with whatever benefit yoyodyne has provided the winner would not be the company that made seth godin 30 million dollars. Its interesting that just this morning I deleted a spam comment from someone trying to make money off of a Squidoo Page. A part of what that spammer generates via squidoo goes straight to Seth Godin.

The single statement that really bothers me in Seth’s post is his belief that writing a textbook should not make someone a millionaire.
This coming from someone who is not averse to making millions off of letting spammers pollute the internet with the sort of drivel you find on squidoo.

I have a lot of respect for Seth Godin’s marketing skills.

However, its rather wrong of him to attack a Professor making money from a calculus textbook.
Anyone who excels in their field and creates huge value ought to get rewarded.

There are people who are making millions off of random Internet sites, by playing professional sports and doing lots of other things that aren’t necessarily ground-breaking.

People who are doing huge value-add jobs like doctors and teachers and scientists ought to be making millions.

If we could do an analysis of the benefit that calculus textbook has provided to students over the years and compared it with whatever benefit yoyodyne has provided the winner would not be the company that made seth godin 30 million dollars.

]]> By: Seth Godin http://stephendann.com/2009/06/15/rebutting-the-seth-godin-and-textbooks-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Seth Godin Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:51:35 +0000 http://stephendann.com/?p=411#comment-405 Thanks for the thoughtful and complete rebuttal. Good luck with the new textbook. Thanks for the thoughtful and complete rebuttal.

Good luck with the new textbook.

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