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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Maybe they'll have patrons who pay them to produce specific types of content. This can create skewed content, but given the number and diversity of potential patrons, it's a lot less problematic than this system was a few hundred years ago, when patrons were all upper-class white men. Kickstarter's had some terrific projects.
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Patrons support artists with no expectation of recompense... essentially, out of the goodness of their hearts. I don't expect that to be particularly widespread, unless the govt changes the tax laws to allow those patrons to get a serious tax break.
I think advertising subsidies are much more likely to be common and successful than patronage. The only thing to be worked out is ad delivery (probably not embedded in books themselves, but displayed at the sale point).