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Originally Posted by crashnburn
I strongly believe that SELLING OUT is not the only way to go.
In a sell out the product usually gets screwed by the acquirer and the VISION of the product dies.
If money did become an issues, I'd much rather help KG monetize his code base in other ways (I've been helping/ advising small startups).
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Selling to Amazon would kill the product a la Stanza but Marvin is only viable as long as it produces sufficient ROI for Kris to spend the time supporting it. The low-hanging fruit is monetizing the "free" versions, and that means ads, but you can do it in a tasteful way. This would also free him to switch to a universal binary for the paid app but I know he's conscious of not abandoning 5.x users (iPad 1?) so if it comes to that maybe the next major version.
It's important enough to have a good reader that puts user considerations above those of the store it's tied to (like Kindle or iBooks) that I'd also support Kris charging again for a 3.0 update, along with the revamped free, but that'd probably need surveying users because it could turn people off too.