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The O'Reilly Safari system is a great alternative to paywalls. You pay for Safari and it pays out royalties to the authors proportional to how many users read
by throwaway2016a 9y ago
The O'Reilly Safari system is a great alternative to paywalls. You pay for Safari and it pays out royalties to the authors proportional to how many users read your book that month.
So an author of a book that had 200 readers would get roughly double the pay of one that has 100 readers.
I would gladly pay for a kind of all access pass that divided up my subscription money to the news sites I visited the most.
Of course, if someone goes to 200 different sites equally an individual publisher would get less from that customer but I think that's fair.
- pmyteh 9y agoThere's an older version of this principle used to compensate authors for library borrowing in the UK and other countries called Public Lending Right. The government puts some tax money into a pot, and it's paid out to authors in proportion to the number of loans of their books. There's also a cap to stop the bulk of the money going to a handful of bestselling authors. In some ways, this can be seen as croudsourcing decisions on government subsidy, which is an interesting model.