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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
If I was dependent for my livelihood to write fiction I would seriously look into writing movie scripts.
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As a matter of fact... I'd been thinking the same thing, and planning to begin converting some of my novels to movie scripts, to see if any of them had legs.
The traditional movie (and television) industry is another model of scarcity; but even as it swings in the abundance direction via the web, Netflix, etc, the fact that it gets a lot of its financing from third parties who will pay for all those eyeballs to sell their other products helps to insulate the movie makers from this effect.
It may be that third-party support (through advertising) is the real solution of abundance: Let someone pay you to give your product away, in order to sell theirs. Will ebooks become that give-away product?