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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Hopefully, such a situation will mean mostly good material gets sponsored, and mostly bad material does not get sponsored, weeding out the bad from the good content. I emphasize "mostly," because we all know the system often passes on potentially good material, and accepts what turns out to be bad material. In some cases, good material simply goes unseen. In other cases, the good material must find another way to get out to consumers... and for e-books, this might mean convincing readers that it is worth... yes... paying the author directly for the book. (This is the way I sell right now.) Or finding some way to make money that no one else has thought of yet. (It's a young market. There's bound to be ideas no one has developed yet, to profit off of digital material.)
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I think exactly this is broken. Sponsored books would not encourage quality.
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Bottom line: I can't predict what is going to work for you (or me, for that matter). You have to see what will work for you, based on the quality of your work, and the skill and luck you have marketing yourself to readers, sponsors or patrons. I will have to try the same thing, and at that point, we'll find out whether I'll keep writing, or if this is the last you'll hear from me.
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Well if there is no alternative you can really suggest that works, then I'll stick with the old way to try to get money by selling copies and outlawing illegal copies.