There have been a lot of threads about how piracy is bad lately. I am proposing a new business idea to make pirating legal in certain ways. Granted, it will not work for everybody, and it may not work for nobody.
Pirating of ebooks since they are
ebooks cannot be prevented. You can only throw stones in the way and make it harder. The harder you try though, the harder and faster will the pirates catch up, unless: [list]write a book[list]self-publish book as ebook, e.g. in Amazon[list]create new-ebook version including a special Disclaimer (inside and part of the book)[list]upload new-ebook into the darknet (is that what it is called nowadays?)
Now that Disclaimer should say something like:
Quote:
This is a free book. If you enjoyed the book please do one or more of the following:
- send this book to all your friends that may be interested in reading it as well (e.g. through email)
- donate money directly to me, the author, to sumsuchandthis paypal in the amount that you think is the fair price you are willing to spend for having read and enjoyed this piece of literature. This will compensate and motivate me to write further books.
If you don't feel that this book is worth reading, then please do us both a favor and hit the delete button.
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Now this might not be a completely new idea, but why does nobody do it then already? It takes the illegal part out of pirating, increases your readers. Without readers you cannot make money. Many of the readers might even think it is a great concept of: pay only if you know you liked it. Not everybody is going to say: "oh hell, why pay, I already read it now".
Would be interesting to see how well financially a book does that gets published only by uploading it to torrent-sites like that.
Thoughts/Comments please.
P.S.: Yes I am aware that a full-time writer that depends on writing as income might not want to do that if he/she has not backup income.