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Originally Posted by LazyScot
A slightly different take on the tip jar is available over on Charles Stross' blog, at least as far as relating to published material is concerned. |
The Stross article is interesting and I find a lot of what he's saying about the tip jar is correct, but what I liked from the i09 piece was the suggestion of 'patronage' or 'sponsorship' that one writer suggested, which would take us into very interesting territory indeed. Imagine the writer subsidized by a few patrons, or one very rich patron (I'm thinking a Bill Gates type here, or even a Stephen King/James Patterson who have money to throw away). I wonder how many writers could be subsidized in this way? How many would want to go this route, say taking a living wage to write what they wanted instead of rolling the dice on making more on royalty payments? And if this model was taken up en masse, where that would leave the publishing industry as a whole?
We live, especially writers, in very interesting times.