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As far as I can tell kickstart and other crowd sourcing projects are one of those ideas that sounds great, but rarely works. It has the same basic issue as the tragedy of the commons in economics. Basically, everyone assumes someone else is going to pay for it. I've seen kickstart project work where the originator (or someone supporting him or her) is very aggressive in pushing it, but that's pretty rare. Just think, how many people are going to have to kick to raise $80K?
I suspect that if it gets to the point where publishers are no longer able to afford advances for non fiction, then we were see more use of grants and patrons, kind of how the arts were paid for during the Renaissance.
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