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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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I'm inclined to think along the same line, before we had a thriving publishing industry, something that requires a literate population, wealthy patrons realizing the public benefit of furthering knowledge, would bankroll research and writers. If those who write non-fiction can't live on the income of the books I think we will see a resurgence of wealthy patrons, most likely in the form of a trust, that willingly support non-fiction authors.