Authors will have a private area or “shed” on the site, where they will be able to blog, post interviews, and meet their supporters. Readers can choose the amount of money they wish to pledge, from £10, which buys an ebook edition, access to the author’s “shed” and the supporter’s name in the back of the book, to £250, which brings lunch with the author, signed and personally dedicated first editions, goodie bags and ebooks, to funding the whole book.
“It’s a way of stirring things up in publishing – removing the gatekeepers in the middle and saying ‘you’re the readers, you’re the authors – come up with what you want them to do’” said Pollard. “In many ways it’s a very old idea – there are a lot of 19th century cases where books were published by subscription. Because of the internet we have crowdfunding, so we can combine the old idea of subscription with finding your audience on the internet, and get the best of both worlds.”
Other authors supporting the project – but yet to sign up with books - include Bernard Cornwell, who called it “a bloody brilliant idea”, Philip Pullman, who said it was “an idea whose time has come”, and Noam Chomsky, who said its “significance could be quite substantial”.
- New crowdfunded publishing project signs up major names, Guardian.co.uk, May 29, 2011.
3. In the comic strip Dustin, a couple driving a car passes a sign on the highway that reads, “Time to downtown: 26 minutes.” The woman, who’s in the passenger seat, says to the man, “So you’re saying a woman looks at that sign and thinks, ‘It’s nice to know I’ll be downtown in 26 minutes.’...But a man looks at it and thinks, ‘I can do it in 22.’”
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