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Books 2.0: Neil Gaiman goes free

Started by mathewi · 8 months ago

Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing has the news that author Neil Gaiman has gotten approval from his publisher to offer one of his books online for free — perhaps inspired by the story of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, who started pirating his own books and noticed that sales of actual p ... Continue reading »

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  • Mark Dykeman

    8 months ago

    If nothing else, this will be a fascinating experiment. There aren't a lot of authors who could afford to do this, though. Maybe Stephen King could - he experimented with micropayments (?) for an online book a couple of years ago.
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  • mathewi

    8 months ago

    Yes, as I recall he provided chapters on a pay-as-you-go basis, but
    gave it up partway through because not enough people were paying for
    them.
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  • Mark Dykeman

    8 months ago

    At the same time, at some point I thought King said he made over $400 K (which was at least $500K Canadian back then) from sales to date. Perhaps it wasn't what he was accustomed to making. :)

    It will be interesting to see if Gaiman and co. attempt to monetize after the fact.
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  • aarthilal

    8 months ago

    hello!
    I'm a big Paulo Coelho's fan and I don't know if you heard about his blog
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    I've started as a fan and now I'm collaborating with him and thought that you would like to enter his universe.
    Check the blog.
    if you want, or subscribe to his newsletter
    http://www.warriorofthelight.com/engl/index.html
    You'll see a community of warriors of light sharing ideas, dreams and most importantly following their personal legend.

    QUOTE OF THE DAY:

    At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior says: "I have dreams."
    (Manual of the Warrior of Light)

    Have a nice day!

    Aart
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