[9315] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: money, commercialization, and publishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Rothman)
Tue Dec 28 23:03:03 1993
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9312271811.A15823-0100000@netcom5>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 93 20:59:15 -0400
To: "Daniel Akst" <akst@netcom.com>
Cc: "Craig Partridge" <craig@aland.bbn.com>, com-priv@psi.com
From: "David Rothman" <rothman@netcom.com>
Reply-To: rothman@netcom.com
>DATE: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 18:57:11 -0800 (PST)
>FROM: Daniel Akst <akst@netcom.com>
>
>David, that's an interesting post. I seem to recall reading that in
>Britain, authors receive some small sum of money every time one of their
>books is checked out of a public library. Presumably their account is
>credited by computer, and once a year the government sends out checks.
A good start, of course. I myself mentioned Britain in an early version
of TeleRead and might want to reintroduce it at some point. Denmark, I
believe, has something similar going.
The problem here is that the payments are small, at least in Britain,
judging from what I've heard.
I propose larger payments--cost-justified through multiple apps such as
e-forms (for details see teleread.txt, 170K, which I'll be happy to
e-mail if you're interested).
Thanks for your thoughts.
-David Rothman
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