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One of the ideas of paid publication of text works in the network

Textual works (novels, short stories, novels) have traditionally been published in the form of paper books, but with the development of network technologies, classical books are increasingly being replaced by electronic means of publication. Copying the same information and textual moreover is not a simple task on the net, but very simple. In this regard, there is a problem of illegal copying of copyright works - the authors are unhappy. Users, I think, are also unhappy, because, firstly, it’s bad to steal, and secondly, copyright advocates create artificial barriers and restrictions for data distribution in the network.

However, the essence of the conflict is that even though the users and the authors have the same goals - distribution and access to the works, but fundamentally different tasks. The user wants to get everything at once and for free, the author wants to receive a fee for each work until the end of life. My idea represents a certain compromise solution that would partially satisfy both parties.
So, the author wrote the story and wants to be read and paid him money. The author is good, but completely unknown and most likely the publisher will not bother with it. Then the author enters the site and can add his work to the list of available for reading. Terms of publication are as follows:

Thus, the author sets the fee for the publication himself and receives a one-time payment for the publication of his work. The work of the author is in the public domain and it can be read by the largest number of users (the author’s popularity is increasing). The user can either pay (make a reasonable contribution to the total amount) for the publication of the next part, or wait and trust that someone else will pay. On the other hand, the user will have access to all works laid out and paid for earlier.
Such a system, I think, will be most suitable for large works with a large number of chapters, because the longer the work does not end, the more users will read the already published part and, therefore, you can increase the fee for publishing the subsequent parts.
The above is just an idea and most likely at the present time its implementation will not be accepted either by the authors (what if my work is worth more?) Or by users (you have to pay, e!). This is just one example of a more civilized interaction between the author and the reader in the network.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/92730/


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