A mail-merge program might be able to do this assuming they've got the right information in the right format to do the work this way: but if they send out too many near-identical emails all at once they might be considered spammers, which would stop any of the messages getting through.
LOL, guy, that's totally not true. Companies and government institutions send out tens of thousands of identical emails to recipients every day. I'm a marketer, and the non-profit I work for sends out anywhere from 20,000 to 60,000 emails a day, almost all of which promote events or services and are exactly alike. Spam is determined by each individual recipient's server, and, if tagged as spam by that server, then blocked only by that individual server.
LOL, guy, that's totally not true. Companies and government institutions send out tens of thousands of identical emails to recipients every day. I'm a marketer, and the non-profit I work for sends out anywhere from 20,000 to 60,000 emails a day, almost all of which promote events or services and are exactly alike. Spam is determined by each individual recipient's server, and, if tagged as spam by that server, then blocked only by that individual server.
Lol, girl, that's totally true under certain circumstances. Like, TOTALLY. There are huge differences between major companies and minor ones, government institutions and private companies, the volumes of mail they get to send out before they're considered dodgy, and how various servers react to them. Having said that I don't think there's a difference between what you said or what I said, if you read it carefully.
1. She's not a guy.
2. You're wrong. There are spam services used by individuals and institutions and spam blocking lists used by large hosts and Admins. We talk to each other; we communicate with each other and we share data. I preemptively block known relays on a regular basis.
3. Individual users who are not using dedicated mailing services or properly configured clients generated appropriate headers will be blocked by their ISP, and / or by service providers, including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc.
4. You try sending out 20K emails in say sixty minutes from a consumer account on Yahoo or Gmail or the like, or from a consumer end-user account at an ordinary non-commercial ISP. The mail will be throttled.
Sorry for not seeing your a woman,
but your statement is still false. You're saying that if a publisher/company sends out too many of the same emails (such as Sahmain sending out too many merged emails), they'll be targeted as a spammer. That's not true. You then also apparently assert (above) that there are different email rules for "major" companies compared to "minor" ones. Also totally untrue. (And just what governing body would decide what a "major" or "minor" company is?) Spam is not determined by the volume of emails delivered. And the size of your entity (company, org., etc) is irrelevant. It's determined by a.) volume of emails received *on a single server*, and filters on *that* server, which track things such as subject lines and attachements, etc.
The emails received talked about that and how we have to wait until each site does their last pay out. She also said that she has doubts ARE will pay out, which is about them not Samhain, but that we will get a last payment from all the others.Samhain ebooks are still being sold on third-party sites.
Hope the authors actually see those sales.
The emails received talked about that and how we have to wait until each site does their last pay out. She also said that she has doubts ARE will pay out, which is about them not Samhain, but that we will get a last payment from all the others.
So a handful of Samhain authors whose last name begins with A received a Contract Addendum yesterday. Nope, not a reversion of rights notice, as we were led to believe, but a Contract Addendum to sign. Complete with a covenant not to sue, because, you know, withholding our royalties is a breach of contract. Several of these authors who've received it have sent it to lawyers to review, and as of this morning, no more of these addendums are being sent out because Samhain is again "reviewing" the language.
So they aren't offering us our rights back at all in that document? Or they're only offering them back if we promise not to sue for final royalties being withheld over our contract agreement time?
We'll see what my agent says about that.
They might try to push this on unsuspecting authors, but agents are a whole different creature.
From what I hear, every agent or lawyer who's looked at it has said "OMG NOPE." My lawyer is definitely not impressed.