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Samuel Johnson famously said “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
Post sponsored by A lot of the attention given to Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms these days has been spurred by the...
Just in case you thought crowdfunding was all about gadgets and indie movies.
In terms of sheer numbers of projects, Kickstarter isn't quite what it used to be.
Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and other digital pioneers sour on 'pay what you want' music | The Verge
Not long ago, many hoped the Internet would emerge as a music fan's Shangri-la, a utopian world where any track, no matter how obscure, was available for free, record labels were extinct and...
A little while back, on one of our "funniest/most insightful comments of the week" posts, we featured a comment that someone...
Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan.
Web tool estimating how much money you'll need to pull in via crowdfunding to fund a given project. Accounts for fees, cost of donor gimmes, etc.
In the third in a series of essays on digital media and publishing, Ewan Morrison, who will appear at the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, claims that as the project to monetise social media falters the self-epublishing industry's defects will be laid bare
Useful cautions about civic crowdfunding, and suggestions to avoid the downsides.
Comedian Louis CK, who made $1 million selling downloads of a show through his website, has sold $4.5-million in tickets to a new tour in 48 hours. He and musician Amanda Palmer show that for content creators, building a community is more important than ever.
A new crowdfunding site, Unglue.it launches today. It hopes to raise money for e-books, not to have them written but so that the funding goes towards paying authors or publishers for existing works,