Comments on: Making A Living From Art http://www.garethlpowell.com/making-a-living-from-art/ The online presence of British science fiction author Gareth L Powell Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Christopher Teague http://www.garethlpowell.com/making-a-living-from-art/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Christopher Teague Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:15:50 +0000 http://www.garethlpowell.com/?p=1908#comment-707 There is a system called micro-payments. The trick is to set the right level: enough to make a decent return... yet so ridiculously cheap that it just isn't worth the effort to download/rip an illegal copy. 79p on iTunes is okay for a single song... but the price for a full album is not much different to that of a CD physical copy. There is a system called micro-payments. The trick is to set the right level: enough to make a decent return… yet so ridiculously cheap that it just isn’t worth the effort to download/rip an illegal copy.

79p on iTunes is okay for a single song… but the price for a full album is not much different to that of a CD physical copy.

]]> By: Iapetus999 http://www.garethlpowell.com/making-a-living-from-art/comment-page-1/#comment-705 Iapetus999 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:45:57 +0000 http://www.garethlpowell.com/?p=1908#comment-705 I think there needs to be a "micro-economy" where people can charge small amounts for downloads. Like a $0.10 Kindle download. Something like universal DRM. Someone sent me a locked PDF the other day to critique, so I know format exist so that people can't screen scrape your work, they can only view it. You just need an easy way to charge for it. I think there needs to be a “micro-economy” where people can charge small amounts for downloads. Like a $0.10 Kindle download. Something like universal DRM. Someone sent me a locked PDF the other day to critique, so I know format exist so that people can’t screen scrape your work, they can only view it. You just need an easy way to charge for it.

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