Kudos to all of you that have jumped in to wrestle with the sticky issues here. There was a fine question in one of these replies. I apologize that I don't remember which one I read it in.
If we could design a system in a new universe, with no contract law or copyright law or previous decisions to muck things up, what would it be? Are the current music models relevant or could we do better? We'd want to disseminate our works broadly with unambiguous authorship. We'd want to be paid well. Could technology help? If every time someone opened up my novel on an eReader, a signal sent a dollar from their bank account directly to mine, could I pay my mortgage? An incentive for the reader to read a book all in one sitting. What if that page didn't download until I had a penny of theirs? More incentive for the author to leave cliffhangers. I don't think I'd design a system in which there was a higher price all at once, a one-time fee of twenty seven dollars. That's too much risk for a reader to invest in something unknown. I think I'd stage a video lead-in with actors playing out the first chapter to have that visual grab that movies have. I think I'd make a great interactive universe like Dana's for readers to roam through like their own character. And then I'd charge by the minute. Alicia On Apr 10, 2009, at 9:23 PM, delancey wrote: > > BTW: can someone tell me, I gather that you cannot share a kindle > copy. Is that right? If so, will libraries have some DRM patch to > lend them out? Anyone know? > > cd > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
