Unglue.it has launched. Crowdfunding for creative commons ebooks.

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12 pointsgluejar5 comments

I don't get it... why does it cost $7,500 to make an ebook?

It doesn't cost $7,500 to make it. The book exists; we're proposing to make it free to everyone on earth, forever, with Creative Commons licensing. The $7,500 is to compensate the author for potential loss of royalties -- make it worthwhile for them to give it to the world.

Thanks for asking questions; it helps us to communicate better.

Oh whoa, totally misunderstood the site. I would suggest keeping this definition:

unglue (v. t.) 1. To pay an author or publisher in full, up front, for publishing a Creative Commons ebook.

At the top of the site (had to click through a few times to find it)

Thanks! I will be writing a proper About soon, and it really helps to have feedback from people who haven't been following us and talking to us for months. Turns out my brain is too everywhere-all-at-once on launch day for me to write coherent sentences right now, but it'll be coming soon.

The point is to make the ebook free to everyone. The $7,500 would be the cost of future revenue gone to zero.

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