Chris Webb

Straight Talk on the Price of Free Content

Much has been written about the power of free content.  The publishing industry is struggling with the balance between free content (or entire books for free) for advertising and promotion and lost sales.  Experiments have had mixed results, and sometimes you are left with that nagging thought, “what if we had not given it away [...]

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The Radiohead Model for Book Publishers

Radiohead’s “pay what you think we deserve” experiment has been the topic of much discussion lately.  Of course, as a content publisher I am interested in how such a model might look for my industry – book publishing.  A small independent publisher, Another Sky Press has been using a very similar model for their books [...]

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