From: Dwayne (dwayne@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 05 1999 - 22:26:03 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> I've often wished that books and music were distributed on a shareware
> basis. I'd happily have paid a buck apiece for each song and book I
> liked enough to listen to/read more than twice - including the books I
> bought used - and the author would still make more than they do now,
> assuming zero cost of production (ebooks). Not only that, but I could
> voluntarily pay extra for books like "Permutation City" or "True Names".
I'd like to see something on the bottom of web pages which allowed you to
make a donation of a small amount, a cent or so, to the author if you really
liked the page. The internet-as-busking analogy is a nice one.
Dwayne
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