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Charbax · 10-28-2008, 07:34 PM

This is what needs to happen:

1. Users pay $5 - $15 per month for a full access subscription

2. Authors can opt out, but by default all books are available from within a Kindle like E-Ink reader, or as view only using any browser.

3. Small fee possible or free for download in any number of formats if Author opts in for free download or paying download, price per download is authors decision. The idea, is if Author provides free download, he might get a larger share from that big $5 and $15 as well as ad revenue, a bigger share then just being part of the viewing only deal.

- Thing is, by viewing deal only, Google knows exactly which pages people are reading, for how long people are viewing each page, thus Google can know if users are really reading the whole book or just skimming it. Which compensates the author differently. If the book is completely read, this gives the author maximum compensation.

- The author can decide to display advertisment or not throughout their content in view mode which may or may not provide them with more revenue, especially when people just search for words within their book. Though choosing ad-free can make the book more readable in view mode by more people. Also the ad-free viewing might require the subscription while ad-supported could be freely available to everyone without a subscription needed.

Now what needs to happen is this, just as with Android OS, or based on Android OS, Google needs to make an E-Ink HSDPA/EVDO operating system standard that has full support for this subscription based and advertising based full web text access system.

This is how things should be, for a fixed $5 or $15 monthly fee, all users should have complete full access to all books, all newspapers, all blogs, basically all text ever written by anyone ever on the whole Internet, everywhere ever written. And all of it has to be instantly available on an Internet connected E-Ink device, like a Google version of a Kindle, or a firmware update for the Kindle.

Paying $10 per e-book is too expensive, paying $4 per newspaper edition is too expensive, paying $1.5 per blog per month is too expensive. Access to all the worlds content needs to be all included in a fixed affordable monthly subscription, and also monetized using advertisment. Or for authors that absolutely want pay-per-view or pay-per-download, they can opt for it.

But quickly all authors will see, they earn the most money by putting all of their content out there part of the free ads-free subscription based monetization.

This will revolutionize blogging, since if your blogging gets read, you will get it monetized automatically in a huge way.

Google needs to do this for music, for video, for movies, for pictures, for art and for everything.

10-28-2008, 07:34 PM	#5
Charbax Addict Posts: 203 Karma: 550683 Join Date: Mar 2007	This is what needs to happen: 1. Users pay $5 - $15 per month for a full access subscription 2. Authors can opt out, but by default all books are available from within a Kindle like E-Ink reader, or as view only using any browser. 3. Small fee possible or free for download in any number of formats if Author opts in for free download or paying download, price per download is authors decision. The idea, is if Author provides free download, he might get a larger share from that big $5 and $15 as well as ad revenue, a bigger share then just being part of the viewing only deal. - Thing is, by viewing deal only, Google knows exactly which pages people are reading, for how long people are viewing each page, thus Google can know if users are really reading the whole book or just skimming it. Which compensates the author differently. If the book is completely read, this gives the author maximum compensation. - The author can decide to display advertisment or not throughout their content in view mode which may or may not provide them with more revenue, especially when people just search for words within their book. Though choosing ad-free can make the book more readable in view mode by more people. Also the ad-free viewing might require the subscription while ad-supported could be freely available to everyone without a subscription needed. Now what needs to happen is this, just as with Android OS, or based on Android OS, Google needs to make an E-Ink HSDPA/EVDO operating system standard that has full support for this subscription based and advertising based full web text access system. This is how things should be, for a fixed $5 or $15 monthly fee, all users should have complete full access to all books, all newspapers, all blogs, basically all text ever written by anyone ever on the whole Internet, everywhere ever written. And all of it has to be instantly available on an Internet connected E-Ink device, like a Google version of a Kindle, or a firmware update for the Kindle. Paying $10 per e-book is too expensive, paying $4 per newspaper edition is too expensive, paying $1.5 per blog per month is too expensive. Access to all the worlds content needs to be all included in a fixed affordable monthly subscription, and also monetized using advertisment. Or for authors that absolutely want pay-per-view or pay-per-download, they can opt for it. But quickly all authors will see, they earn the most money by putting all of their content out there part of the free ads-free subscription based monetization. This will revolutionize blogging, since if your blogging gets read, you will get it monetized automatically in a huge way. Google needs to do this for music, for video, for movies, for pictures, for art and for everything.