Author Using Kickstarter To Offer His Book To The Public Domain, And Help Other Creators To Do The Same

Recently drew my attention to an interesting project and organization seeking more news public domain works. Was launched by Aaron Pogue, who self-published a few books last year, sold more than 100,000 copies, and it allows you not only to leave their jobs, but to start a organization to help content creators are paid to put their works into the public domain

. The goal is to use other systems like Kickstarter to allow fans to support the organization, called

Consortium
Pogue a kick out of this with an attempt to raise $ 30,000 for the third book of the trilogy. If we reach this goal, will publish the book in the public domain, allowing anyone to do what you want. Make a movie out of it? Go ahead. Is a fan edit it? No problem. Anything you want, once you are in the public domain.
However, it is unclear whether they will make the goal, even if it is an interesting project. I wonder why it has not grown much and I have two theories: first, the production quality of the video with the Kickstarter project is not large. I know it is not always easy, but for whatever reason, projects with a higher quality production seem to do better on Kickstarter. The other thing is that I wonder how many buyers Pogue the first two books of the trilogy not even know about this offer. In fact, I wonder if this is one of the limitations of relying on a platform like Amazon - and that can put a wall between an author and his supporters.

Anyway, I am very interested in this type of project. And it's great to see people like Pogue there - a successful artist - not only explains that copyright is not the "only" way to make money as an artist but certainly not the best way to earn money. And then take that further and help other artists make money without relying on the crutch of copyright, is a great thing to see if this Kickstarter campaign was particularly successful. At the same time, however, if you want to show some support for this type of project, visit the Kickstarter campaign and see if you think it is worth supporting.

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