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I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
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rampionI've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
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13 Dec 06
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Cory Doctorow
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05 Dec 06
Rhea Myers"I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money."
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04 Dec 06
Holger SchulzeWeisheit, applied.<BR>
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I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
Most people who download the book don't end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience. A tiny minority of downloaders treat the free e-book as a substitute for the printed book--those are the lost sales. But a much larger minority treat the e-book as an enticement to buy the printed book. They're gained sales. As long as gained sales outnumber lost sales, I'm ahead of the game. After all, distributing nearly a million copies of my book has cost me nothing.
What is certain is that every writer who's tried giving away e-books to sell books has come away satisfied and ready to do it some more.
The online norms of idle chatter, fannish organizing, publishing and leisure are descended from SF fandom, and if any literature has a natural home in cyberspace, it's science fiction, the literature that coined the very word "cyberspace."
I don't think it's practical to charge for copies of electronic works. Bits aren't ever going to get harder to copy. So we'll have to figure out how to charge for something else. That's not to say you can't charge for a copy-able bit, but you sure can't force a reader to pay for access to information anymore.
This isn't the first time creative entrepreneurs have gone through one of these transitions. Vaudeville performers had to transition to radio, an abrupt shift from having perfect control over who could hear a performance (if they don't buy a ticket, you throw them out) to no control whatsoever (any family whose 12-year-old could build a crystal set, the day's equivalent of installing file-sharing software, could tune in). There were business models for radio, but predicting them a priori wasn't easy. Who could have foreseen that radio's great fortunes would be had through creating a blanket license, securing a
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Joe CrawfordCory Doctorow on giving his books away free on the internet, and somehow making a living at it.
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03 Dec 06
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Fabian HerbelCory Doctorow erklärt warum er seine Bücher frei gibt und warumes sicht trotzdem lohnt
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Lynne BI've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
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02 Dec 06
Alan LevineI've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
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