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I ingest mountains of fiction (and dabble in writing), and have also worked in the (Free-to-play) game industry. - How will you ensure quality from authors? -

• jay_kyburz 11y ago
  These are all really tough questions, and I don't necessarily have all the answers yet. I think part of what was exciting about throwing the idea out there is being forced to think about these things. 1. I think there will probably need to be some kind of reddit/hn voting system so that good authors float to the top. (Perhaps even a steam greenlight system were your compete for space in the store?) 2. I don't know. I imagine we will have to just do the hard yards. Reach out to aspiring authors and get them to try this platform. We won't be exclusive. Authors can publish on Amazon as well and compare the results. 3. Yep, another of the core problems, but I think authors could consider the premium content as short stories in the same universe. In its simplest form you could think of the Novel to get you hooked on the world and the characters, and the follow up short stories as what you buy, but I would like to think we can come up with some premium content that is more exciting than that. If the platform looks like it's working, in the same way we had to change the way games work in f2p, we might see authors building their books for f2p as well.