From: anderson@acs.ucalgary.ca (Terry Anderson)
Subject: Royalties for Contributions
Originator: bandb-m@udevdiv.unibase.sk.ca
Reply-To: <bandb-m@udevdiv.unibase.sk.ca>
Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd.
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:04:50 GMT

Re Creation of online information resources.

Though I'm definitely not a neo conservative, nor a budding capitalist, I was
intrigued by the following announcement that appeared on Usenet,
alt.internet.services.

This type of pay for information, with royalty to the provider might be a means
to end the bottleneck caused by protection of the publishers interest in much
scholarly work and evaluation materials.  If journals were "sold" this way, I
think there are consumers who are willing to pay. I already pay for some
subscriptions and for photocopying articles for personal reference.
Theoretically paperless distribution as outlined below should be cheaper than
current journal production and distribution.  Perhaps a larger proportion of
the purchase price could go for the authoring, editing etc. and less for
printing , distribution and storage. Finally access, searching and retrieval
would be significantly enhanced for those studying at a distance - at least for
those having access to CMC services and networks.

Please note that I am NOT endorsing, nor in any way involved with the product
described below.


-- 
Terry Anderson
Network Coordinator, Bangkok Project
Dept. of Educational Psychology                     Ph 403-284-0922
University of Calgary                              Fax 403-289-4471    
Calgary, AB. Canada T2N 1N4              InterNet ANDERSON@ACS.UCALGARY.CA

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Sat Nov  7 00:34:34 MST 1992

Now, distribute info and get paid for it with no hassles. Mount your info,
programs, files, whatever, onto our system. When others call in and
retrieve you rfile, they put the charge on a credit card and then get the
file. You get paid a royalty.
Simple. Now get paid for your knowledge, your compilations..become an
electroniclaly published author the saem day.
Here's what you would do:
Send us an abstract of the file, note file size, up to 50 words of an
abstract, adn the price you think is fair to charge callers. While we will
hope to accept all file submissions, we reserve right NOT to accept a
file. We will look over your abstract and e-mail you back re:
acceptability, desire, royalty rate. , etc. If you want to proceed, upload
the file. We will put the abstract and title on our menu, and we will have
all abstracts searchable. Callers amy dial in with modem or through Internet.
Have a report, a list of Internet resources, a good explanation of a
difficult concept? A good FAQ file? Did you write some articles, a book,
or just bursting with good info that others would pay for? Have an
electronic journal, newsletter?

We will be testing this beta thru the end of 1992, adn ready to go public
by year end. Right now, we are interestd in hearing from information
providers and we need to know:
what type of inof do you think youi could mount on our system?
what size file/
What type info?
What do you think a fair price would be to charge callers for your file?

We are hoping that $2 to $7 charges will be common..keep the cost real low,
and you will find that you will make it up in volume... and users/cllaers
get real good value for their money.

Let us know.... we will advise when system is ready to accept files.. the
first ones will be the ones tht respond with basic info. We aren't going
to hold you to this info, we just want to get an idea of what types of
info, file size, costs might be involved. We will set aside 300 mb at
first, but I expect that won't be enough for long!

Thanks,

Greg & Matt
Global Document Clearinghouse
e-mail to neta@holonet.net



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