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Originally Posted by Leyor
Well there's multiple ways to do it.
There's the skype model. You take product, you release it for free. Once it's reached a critical point of proliferation, you make alot of money selling associated services. Skype phone, skype-in, skype out, online numbers.
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Skype isn't a content provider. What associated services are there for writers and other creative people when they can no longer sell their work?
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Originally Posted by Leyor
There's google with their advertisement and also additional buy-ons.
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Which works for Google, but isn't really viable for anyone else. There's no advertising money when no one is buying your books, or magazines, or tickets to your movies. Google started as a service, not a content provider. That's a different beast.
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Originally Posted by Leyor
I'd like to refer to my previous post though on page 4. the main money would be made by companies being best capable of taking advantage of a free product making it alot more easy to reach a wider audience and create alot of income from derivatives. In terms of dealing with an established fanbase and not being an anonymous use product, the original product, even free, enjoys an advantage. There's the luxury market; leather bound signed editions and official props (some people will always be willing to pay more money if its official). There's the discount market, ads, there's book tours, you can even create an entire ecosystem around the author, online q&a's, ads, endorsements etc.
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I just don't see any of that working at all. With no copyright there's no viable product to take advantage of. There's are no ads, no book tours (which are money pits anyway), no add-ons, no nothing, because you can't sell your product to begin with. Very few people are going to buy your product when they can get it, with no reduction in quality, for free legally and easily.
I'm sorry, but I think your ideas for making money in a non-copyright world are a bit pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking.