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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, I want to be able to read a book in one sitting so that would not work. And I also think that what you thought of the book should influence how much you pay.
The whole idea is to pay for the next book the author is writing so you then totally side step the problem of copying.
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Once the book is ready, offering 25-50% excerpt with a possibility of an immediate buy should be good enough - I agree that it does not apply to snippets though
Regarding paying the author's next book - that is a very interesting idea and I thought about it - to me it would involve something like taking pre-orders in escrow, rather than pay as you go - but I am not sure something like that would work outside of people with a large fan base, and then what's the point?
I do not think that the copying issue is avoidable in any feasible way - and again let us not kid that drm is about that and not about control and lock-in -
so the idea is how to insure a revenue stream that keeps authors happy.
To me the one obvious and not that hard thing to do is create a community of fans, treat them nice, tell them to support rather than pirate, but DO NOT scold, take the moral high ground, make emotional threats since from personal experience there is nothing more off putting than attacking people personally to scare them off.
Of course there are authors that have a given position and following that they can afford that but I think that overall you should do that only if can afford it so to speak...You come upon as a sanctimonious, high-horse person, well, we are all sinners so to speak and let those without sin cast the first stone sums my attitude well and puts me off like few things do
As one of my favorite characters Logan Ninefingers of Joe Abercrombie's First law trilogy puts it,
"Let's be realistic"