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Originally Posted by kennyc
This is the issue. YOU don't get to choose.
The creator of the intellectual property gets to choose.
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I've already chosen.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I give mine away and ask for donations. Do you want to guess how much money I have made so far? It's a nice ideal to work towards, but it just wouldn't work. You would need to move towards an advert funded model, or go back to government grants for artistic types funded through taxes. Or have something like the Uk library system where writers get paid a small amount each time one of their books is borrowed (downlaoded), again paid through taxation. None of those would be particularly popular at this moment in time.
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I have a book listed as donationware and at last count have not seen any donations in the donation bank, I have sold a few copies preread though
But those sales were directly related to word of mouth advertisting.
I've read a little about the UK Library system, but I don't like the idea of tying revenue to downloads, simply because the books might not be read.
It seems to me that getting people attached to the site of download, while also offering quality books might be enough to get people to donate to keep the flow of quality ebooks into their ereaders. The site would earn revenue through advertising, cuts of donations, subscriptions and other things that I haven't thought of yet. It could be an ebook consortium where all users are actually the owners of the site.