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Originally Posted by PKFFW
It is my understanding that the majority of "honour buying, donations and crowd patronage" systems that have been tried thus far have shown only that those systems do not work. At least not for any but the already established and popular acts. In the face of the "it's digital therefore it should be free" culture, the "honour" system shows there isn't much honour to be had.
I could be wrong though as I've not really kept up to date on all such experiments.
Cheers,
PKFFW.
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Such a system works for music, people download the music for free and pay 100's of dollars to see the musician(s) in concert. They buy lots of t-shirts and other stuff. But will people pay $100 to go to a book signing? With ad support, of course, rights holders still get paid according to sales/popularity. But for me, that price may well be higher than paying directly.
Anyway, I still think that we have plenty of time to educate people that a writer's work is worth something. Societies that provide social welfare for their poor citizens don't want to spend a dime for those that contribute so much just because their work can be easily reproduced in digital form?