Net Publishing Made Profitable

Pete writes “Wired has this story about what may become the new business model for online publishing.

“From the get-go, Adam Engst has pioneered just about every revenue model on the Internet — ads, subscriptions, sponsorships and the now-ubiquitous tip jar — with mixed success.

“Over the years, we could have made more money working minimum-wage jobs,” lamented Engst, who runs TidBits with his wife, Tonya, from their home in Ithaca, New York. “We do it for the love of it.”

But now Engst thinks he’s finally cracked it. Since last fall, Engst has published a series of rapidly produced e-books using a system he calls “extreme publishing.”””

August 14, 2004 by Uncategorized 1

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1 Response

  1. kmhess says:
    August 15, 2004 at 11:23 pm

    PDF issues….
    I think PDF are designed to be a good way to transform print into an electronic form that can be reprinted. PDF files can be really hard to read on the computer if they are designed for printing not reading…

    So in this case, to read his books I would pay $10 for the PDF file, then to actually use it I’d have to spend $20 printing it out at Kinkos and having it bound. Why don’t I just buy the book?

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