Excellent story. Thanks for the share, blasdel. The wall street journal had an interesting article on this subject, as does Leo from Zenhabits.net I recently

Excellent story. Thanks for the share, blasdel. The wall street journal had an interesting article on this subject, as does Leo from Zenhabits.net I recently decided to undergo a similar writing experiment on the concept of focus (http://howtogetfocused.com/ http://howtogetfocused.com/) in which I use a technique that's like a freemium model... This philosophy centers on the following characteristics: Writing the book using a blogging platform (I’m using Wordpress) Listing one main author, and listing many contributing authors (you, the reader, are a contributing author if you comment) Releasing the book 100% for free online (and selling the offline format) Sourcing the book’s editor to the readers (Readers comment on each chapter suggesting spelling changes, organization changes, ideas and illustrations Crowd-sourcing the book’s design