tl;dr EA books have a positive externality. The response should be to subsidise them
If EA thinks that certain books (doing good better, the precipice) have greater benefits than they seem, they could subsidise them.
There could be an EA website which has amazon coupons for EA books so that you can get them more cheaply if buying for a friend, or advertise said coupon to your friends to encourage them to buy the book.
I think this could cost $50,000 to $300,000 or so depending on when this is done and how popular it is expected to be, but I expect it to be often worth it.
I like this idea and think it’s worth you taking further. My initial reactions are:
Getting more EA books into peoples hands seems great and worth much more per book than the cost of a book.
I don’t know how much of a bottleneck the price of a book is to buying them for friends/club members. I know EA Oxford has given away many books, I’ve also bought several for friends (and one famous person I contacted on instagram as a long shot who actually replied.
I’d therefore be interested in something which aimed to establish whether making books cheaper was a better or worse idea than just encouraging people to gift them.
John Behar/TLYCS probably have good thoughts on this.
Do you have any thoughts as to what the next step would be. It’s not obvious to me what you’d do to research the impact of this.
Perhaps have a questionnaire asking people how many people they’d give books to at different prices. Do we know the likelihood of people reading a book they are given?
EA Book discount codes.
tl;dr EA books have a positive externality. The response should be to subsidise them
If EA thinks that certain books (doing good better, the precipice) have greater benefits than they seem, they could subsidise them.
There could be an EA website which has amazon coupons for EA books so that you can get them more cheaply if buying for a friend, or advertise said coupon to your friends to encourage them to buy the book.
From 5 mins of research the current best way would be for a group to buys EA books and sell them at the list price but provide coupons as here—https://www.passionintopaychecks.com/how-to-create-single-use-amazon-coupons-promo-codes/
Alternatively, you could just sell them at the coupon price.
I think people have been taking up the model of open sourcing books (well, making them free). This has been done for [The Life You can Save](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_You_Can_Save) and [Moral Uncertainty](https://www.williammacaskill.com/info-moral-uncertainty).
I think this could cost $50,000 to $300,000 or so depending on when this is done and how popular it is expected to be, but I expect it to be often worth it.
Seems that the Ebook/audiobook is free. Is that correct?
I imagine being able to give a free physcial copy would have more impact.
Yes, it’s free.
I like this idea and think it’s worth you taking further. My initial reactions are:
Getting more EA books into peoples hands seems great and worth much more per book than the cost of a book.
I don’t know how much of a bottleneck the price of a book is to buying them for friends/club members. I know EA Oxford has given away many books, I’ve also bought several for friends (and one famous person I contacted on instagram as a long shot who actually replied.
I’d therefore be interested in something which aimed to establish whether making books cheaper was a better or worse idea than just encouraging people to gift them.
John Behar/TLYCS probably have good thoughts on this.
Do you have any thoughts as to what the next step would be. It’s not obvious to me what you’d do to research the impact of this.
Perhaps have a questionnaire asking people how many people they’d give books to at different prices. Do we know the likelihood of people reading a book they are given?