>>> Item number 28105 from WRITERS LOG9404A --- (40 records) ----- <<< Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 18:35:02 JST Reply-To: WRITERS Sender: WRITERS From: Mike Barker Subject: TECH: Another epublishing scheme just playing with the notions... Initially, it may make better sense for the publisher/author to work with "point-of-sale" printing houses. e.g., maybe the publisher/author distributes electronic copies (cdrom, email, whatever) to your local Kinky LibraryShop. Kinky makes you a copy on demand (laserprinter - 10 ppm - 20 minutes for a fresh book! or less if you parallel the printers.. 10 printers gives 2 minute service). For low-demand books, maybe Kinky pays a flat fee to the publisher/authors for a group of el cheapo books. Sleezy Queen's books probably get a higher fee. Let the local Kinky make as many copies as they want - which gives them an incentive to sell many, many copies. For that matter - consider a service that sells "subscription" cdrom's to the local Kinky. Each month, a selection of new titles in a spread of genre's (what is the plural of that word?). Most el cheap flat-fee authors, a few maybe high-priced. Also, the service provides dial-up download service for specialty titles at a slight additional price... so now you dial-in to your local Kinky's, download a few leading chapters, pick out something you really want, ask them to print it. and in a half-hour, the delivery kid drops a fresh copy in your hot little hands and takes cash, credit, or your firstborn... Given the right setup, maybe Kinky let's you access the books directly - you pay a monthly fee or per-view? and if you copy it for a friend, that's fine - you already paid, and know damn well that since your friend didn't pay, the price of access will go up... so maybe you don't copy it for a friend, just tell them how to call Kinky's themselves? who knows? tink (but I sure want to see what happens. don't you?)