Comments on: A New Frontier: Book Publishing as a Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-new-frontier-book-publishing-as-a-commons/2015/12/29 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:55:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Silke https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-new-frontier-book-publishing-as-a-commons/2015/12/29/comment-page-1#comment-1517136 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:04:26 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=53224#comment-1517136 Hey Keith, thanks for your comment: there are plenty of us who started thinking about a different way of publishing and as you might have seen… we are already pitching future readers and it works.
The key point though is not to think about it as a “business”, but as a common endeavour.

As for “Patterns of Commoning” -> go for part two and especially the interviews, I would doubt you find it typical academic and incomprehensible (actually; we are often criticized for not beeing “academic” enough to be taken into account), so this one is sth. in between: academic rigor and a lot of story telling.

]]> By: Keith https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-new-frontier-book-publishing-as-a-commons/2015/12/29/comment-page-1#comment-1516500 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:23:06 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=53224#comment-1516500 I read a little of Patterns of Commoning, typical academic writing, make the commonplace incomprehensible, to justify existence.

Publishing is thus a risky business.

Most books go direct from publisher to pulp, if lucky may pass through a remainder shop, very few make it onto the shelves of a bookshop. .

There are option that reduce that risk.

Publish as e-book on leanpub. Not as good as bandcamp for music, but better than Amazon or iTunes.

https://keithpp.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/leanpub/

Crowdfund through Unbound.

With Unbound, the books are crowdfunded, the author makes a pitch to prospective reader not to the publisher. When enough are signed up to be viable, the book is published.

The concept is excellent, the implementation tacky.

Offered gimmicks, eg access to the authors shed. Adn with all risks removed, why are the books so pricey? Unbound offers nothing other than a platform and publication, Book price spit 50:50 with author. Traditionally it has been author gets 10%, but with heavy discounting, probably considerable less.

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