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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
He tried a pay what you want model.
Also must say it was done in parts as well. In the end he made less than what he would normally have with a standard release. That is also keeping in mind that authors get it more rough than musicians do when it comes to what they make and the deals they get.
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Yeah I remember his doing this. It was called The Plant or something like that. I think it failed for a couple of reasons. First if you have the option of paying or not, most will not pay and as we said an author really has not other revenue streams other than book sales and second it was done in a series and I think a lot of people just want the full book all at once and they don't want to have to wait.
I would bet if he released a full book that was just available online and he charged like $3-$4 per download he would make a good amount of money.
Also, like you say, authors tend to make more per sale of a book that a musician does on the sale of a CD.