Possible the Charles Stross piece you're thinking of is his why he doesn't have a tip jar explanation: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/remi

Possible the Charles Stross piece you're thinking of is his why he doesn't have a tip jar explanation: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder-why-theres-no-tipjar.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder... (The TL;DR version - because none of the money would go to his publisher and without his publisher his books wouldn't exist.)