MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

Steven Lake · 07-09-2017, 05:12 PM

Hey all, I have a question. An idea was tossed at me not long ago to consider signing up to Patreon as a means of selling books via subscription. The basic premise would be one of several.

1. Sell the books either at normal price, and use Patreon for special content that can't be had any other way.

2. Sell the books for free, but use Patreon for early release of new or exclusive content. IE, if a book is due out in June, subscribers would start getting it a chapter or two at a time prior to release, and when all the paid subscribers got their copies, THEN the general public got theirs.

3. Release audiobooks a chapter at a time on youtube and then have people support you through patreon as a content creator.

And there were other ideas, but those were the basic ones. What do you guys think of this idea?

07-09-2017, 05:12 PM	#1
Steven Lake Sci-Fi Author Posts: 1,158 Karma: 14743509 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Michigan Device: PC (Calibre)	Question about Writing and Patreon Hey all, I have a question. An idea was tossed at me not long ago to consider signing up to Patreon as a means of selling books via subscription. The basic premise would be one of several. 1. Sell the books either at normal price, and use Patreon for special content that can't be had any other way. 2. Sell the books for free, but use Patreon for early release of new or exclusive content. IE, if a book is due out in June, subscribers would start getting it a chapter or two at a time prior to release, and when all the paid subscribers got their copies, THEN the general public got theirs. 3. Release audiobooks a chapter at a time on youtube and then have people support you through patreon as a content creator. And there were other ideas, but those were the basic ones. What do you guys think of this idea?