From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 05:31:32 MDT
ABlainey@aol.com suggests:
> Pooling our talents in a collective pot would seem a very obvious and
>hopefully profitable endeavour. Maybe we should forward a few ideas for an
>extropian business? we are all online and im sure many of us would be very
>happy to devote time and knowledge if we had a financial gain. We already
>have Writers, researchers and probably everything we need to start an
>online publishing company.
I'd been considering this too. I know of at least one novel I'd consider
marketing this way, if sufficient seed money and programming skills etc
were available. Trouble is, paper book publishing & mass market
distribution is deeply fucked up as an industry right now, and download
publishing for pay is still in its doubtful infancy. I sell comparatively
well on Fictionwise.com (given that my name isn't Asimov or Silverberg and
that I don't write soft porn), but I couldn't start to live off royalties
even of 30%, which is what F/wise are able to offer for e-reprints. We'd
need to find ways to promote the hell out of whatever was
released--slashdot it, boost it into discussion far & wide without raising
the ire of people who might feel spammed.
Let's talk more on the list about this.
Damien Broderick
www.thespike.us
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