{"id":7800,"date":"2013-01-22T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2013-01-22T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:00:24","slug":"should-authors-pay-people-to-read-their-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/should-authors-pay-people-to-read-their-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Authors Pay People To Read Their Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7801\" alt=\"open-book-on-top-of-pile-of-books1[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/open-book-on-top-of-pile-of-books11.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/open-book-on-top-of-pile-of-books11.jpg 1281w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/open-book-on-top-of-pile-of-books11-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/open-book-on-top-of-pile-of-books11-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nobody really reads books these days writes Kevin Kelly. Perhaps authors should pay the people who do. Here&#8217;s how it would work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individuals would pay to buy the book on an e-reading device.<\/li>\n<li>The e-reading device would use algorithms to figure out if you actually read the book. If you do read it, then you&#8217;ll be paid back the price of the book, plus a little extra for reading it.<\/li>\n<li>This would likely incentivize people to buy books because they know that it is possible that it will be free. But few people will actually read the book.<\/li>\n<li>Authors win since they have higher book sales. Readers win since they get free books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2013\/01\/ill_pay_you_to.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/thetechnium\/archives\/2013\/01\/ill_pay_you_to.php\">The Technium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/01\/assorted-links-678.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody really reads books these days writes Kevin Kelly. Perhaps authors should pay the people who do. Here&#8217;s how it would work: Individuals would pay to buy the book on an e-reading device. The e-reading device would use algorithms to figure out if you actually read the book. If you do read it, then you&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/open-book-on-top-of-pile-of-books11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7818,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions\/7818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}