http://rebeltales.com/
This proposes to publish serialised fiction online using a subscription model, and is run by Holly Lisle. It isn't open for submissions yet, but I was curious to know what people thought of the idea.
Payment is a pro rata of subscriptions/downloads, to editors as well as writers. A story would earn, roughly, 0.0015 cents per word per basic subscription (at $8 per six-issue ‘season’). It would therefore hit 5 cents a word at a circulation of about 3500* [my calculations, not Holly Lisle’s].
(There’s an additional, far pricier, subscription aimed at writers. The same numbers could be reached with only 300 ‘backstage’ subscribers)
Some questions that occur to me:
It takes world-wide e-rights, but not print rights, with no reversion option. Would this make it dead in the water for print publishers?
It wouldn't have as much in the way of fixed costs as a more traditional publisher, but it does have some (servers, if nothing else) so going under is a possibility. In that case, if there's only been one (or half, or all but one) chapter released, does your novel still count as being published?
Has anyone come across someone with a similar model, and how is it going for them?
* For those interested, editors would be paid at 80 cents per issue per basic subscription. If it did hit 3500, that would be a salary of $5,600 per month. Of course, if it only sells a hundred, they’re doing the same work for $160.
This proposes to publish serialised fiction online using a subscription model, and is run by Holly Lisle. It isn't open for submissions yet, but I was curious to know what people thought of the idea.
Payment is a pro rata of subscriptions/downloads, to editors as well as writers. A story would earn, roughly, 0.0015 cents per word per basic subscription (at $8 per six-issue ‘season’). It would therefore hit 5 cents a word at a circulation of about 3500* [my calculations, not Holly Lisle’s].
(There’s an additional, far pricier, subscription aimed at writers. The same numbers could be reached with only 300 ‘backstage’ subscribers)
Some questions that occur to me:
It takes world-wide e-rights, but not print rights, with no reversion option. Would this make it dead in the water for print publishers?
It wouldn't have as much in the way of fixed costs as a more traditional publisher, but it does have some (servers, if nothing else) so going under is a possibility. In that case, if there's only been one (or half, or all but one) chapter released, does your novel still count as being published?
Has anyone come across someone with a similar model, and how is it going for them?
* For those interested, editors would be paid at 80 cents per issue per basic subscription. If it did hit 3500, that would be a salary of $5,600 per month. Of course, if it only sells a hundred, they’re doing the same work for $160.
