Good arguments. I’d personally love if we found a way to move to a different economic model for all information goods. But particularly here, free distribution seems important.
Possibly worth considering: motivating future authors with prize-based incentives; prize based on number of downloads/reads/upvotes of their books. Of course the authors may be credit-constrained, but perhaps others could finance them by buying shares in the future potential prizes?
Good arguments. I’d personally love if we found a way to move to a different economic model for all information goods. But particularly here, free distribution seems important.
Possibly worth considering: motivating future authors with prize-based incentives; prize based on number of downloads/reads/upvotes of their books. Of course the authors may be credit-constrained, but perhaps others could finance them by buying shares in the future potential prizes?