{"id":2922,"date":"2010-02-11T20:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2010-02-11T20:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:57:55","slug":"would-you-pay-to-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/would-you-pay-to-participate\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you pay to participate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just earlier this afternoon I was talking to some great guys from Otago University around content and monetisation.<\/p>\n<p>My position (clearly) has been around freemium, providing a basic or standard edition for free then you pay for the delivery of that in a premium format (ie audiobook, physical copy, pdf etc).  That&#8217;s exactly what I did with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestideasarefree.com\">The Best Ideas are Free<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The question put back to me was &#8211; would you pay to participate?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I think I would to be honest &#8211; if you asked me to contribute a chapter or even a paragraph to a book I probably would <\/span>(<strong>Update <\/strong>this doesn&#8217;t help with my point please ignore)..<\/p>\n<p>Do you think you guys could help me out? Would you pay to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">contribute <\/span>participate in the creation of my next book (<strong>or more importantly any other book?<\/strong>) (hey it&#8217;s not finished yet so you could easily) if so what would you pay?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>I just need to clarify I&#8217;m focusing on participation, not guaranteed inclusion so you might pay to go through the creative process, or research or key points or brainstorming &#8211; become part of the experience. \u00a0Writing a chapter was just an example.<\/p>\n<p>Just curious. \u00a0Answer the poll below&#8230; I&#8217;ll share the results and if you vote, leave your name in the comments I&#8217;ll randomly pick someone to send a copy of The Best Ideas are Free (open worldwide).<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2688177.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2688177\/\">Would you pay to participate (ie contribute) to a book?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">answers<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>If you could please retweet, email to your friends or post to Facebook that would be great &#8211; <strong>I am more intrigued\/curious at this stage <\/strong>than actually serious about implementing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just earlier this afternoon I was talking to some great guys from Otago University around content and monetisation. My position (clearly) has been around freemium, providing a basic or standard edition for free then you pay for the delivery of that in a premium format (ie audiobook, physical copy, pdf etc). That&#8217;s exactly what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,907,908],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}