[lbo-talk] Dumb QOTD: What kind of labor produces intellectual property?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Sep 5 13:38:58 PDT 2011


On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:


>> $6000 for the book Wall Street
>
> It was a great deal for Verso, which made something like $300,000 from
> the book.

So you made 2% of the take?

I honestly have to wonder whether you would do any worse on an aggresive cyber tip jar basis. That is, if you wrote a book, told people they could download it for free but if they liked it, the suggested donation was 10 bucks.

Or alternatively, has anyone ever financed a book via Kickstarter? Where nobody would pay unless you reached your goal of say $20k? And then you could do the tip jar on top of that?

Just wondering out loud.

Michael



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