missy
Sheri said:As a do it yourself "craft" idea, I think it's great, but I don't get what it was that Corrine Kenner actually did that any person here couldn't do. She's taken already existing free images, added titles and then claimed them as her own... Then charges people for a deck that everyone has to actually make themselves.
Gee.
First, in my opinion, she made the deck. If I bought it, I would not be making it. I would be printing it, which is something else entirely. I don't have a color printer, so I would have to go to the very small inconvenience of having it printed at a photo shop. Doesn't seem very inconvenient to me.
She is charging $2.09. Two dollars! That is all. Time is money. It is one of the first rules of business. It would take me a lot more time to make such a deck myself. (She "made" the deck on her computer, in my opinion, by finding the images, sizing the images, adding the titles, etc.) Plus, she wrote a 45-page book, which involved researching the original images, writing, editing, etc. And if I had made such a deck myself, it might occur to me to charge a very small fee for it. Not to mention the time and trouble she took to create the website for the deck! Just some of the pages I see:
Introduction
Card Images
Video
Guidebook
Purchase and Download Instructions
Copyright and License Information
Printing Tips
Meet the Deck Designers
Contact
Acknowlegments
Bonus Cards
Reviews
I think that is worth the small sum of $2.09. Or even the regular price of $9.99.
If someone else wants to go to all the time and trouble to create such a deck, and then wants to share it free for everyone on AT, they certainly have the right to do so.