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The model seems to work and they seem to have great traction. I can see all the objections but the proof is in the pudding. Really liked this sentence from thei
by kriro 12y ago
The model seems to work and they seem to have great traction. I can see all the objections but the proof is in the pudding.
Really liked this sentence from their answer to a critic:
"""You said you talked about the idea of Blendle when I was two years old. But Blendle is not an “idea”. Blendle is about execution. And because of that we’ve gathered more than 140.000 users in The Netherlands with a $0 marketing budget."""
Seems somewhat reasonable to assume this could be transfered to the hyperbroken academic publishing model (publisher resistence is a lot higher and older articles are worth more than for typical newspaper stuff though). One source, micropayment per article, refund policy. One can dream ;)
- phreeza 12y agoHere is an even crazier idea: (micro)pay to cite instead of (micro)pay to read. Just going to put that out there.
- kriro 12y agoThat's actually a pretty cool idea. Once there's infrastructure in place, it's easy to enforce, too. Turn in a paper and upon acceptance you are billed for the citations. Money = reputation also kind of works and is a nice incentive to write good papers that get cited often. [downside is obviously that it kind of also creates an incentive to cite less]