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Originally Posted by NatCh
Here's a half-baked one, though. How about a combination membership and subscription type model. The membership/subscription would be really cheap or even free.
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I had an idea some time ago about such a system.
1. All books were free (in electronic form).
2. You couldn't share books, but since anyone could get any book they wanted at any time, there was no problem with this.
3. There was no central source of eBooks. Many sources served them.
4. Every time a person downloaded a book, it would be recorded.
5. A culture tax would be imposed on everyone.
6. The money from the culture tax would be distributed to the authors who wrote the books depending on the number of people/downloads (if 1 person downloaded the same book 100 times, that would only count as 1).
So authors would be rewarded based on how many people used their works and everyone gets to read whatever they want "for free".