Unglue.it: Crowd funding the purchasing of a CC license for a book.

[Ivan Chew]

Seems like an interesting model. How it works (extracted from the landing page):

1) We all have books we love so much, we'd like to give them to the
world. We want to share them, but also reward their creators. With
digital books, it can be hard to do both.

2) Unglue.it offers a win-win solution: Crowdfunding. We run pledge
campaigns for books; you chip in. When, together, we've reached the
goal, we'll reward the book's creators and issue an unglued ebook.

3) Creative Commons licensing means everyone, everywhere can read and
share the unglued book - freely and legally. You've given your
favorite book to the world.

I wonder how much authors would accept though. At first I had to wrap
my head around the idea of why authors may want to "unglue" their
book, but actually it makes a lot of sense for certain authors.

For authors whose works aren't "Harry Potter" popular but there's some
readers who want to unglue it, they have to set a fair value between
what they think they can reasonably get (or not). There's a little bit
of entrepreneurial risk of course. If they set a sum now, but their
book proves to be super-popular later, they can't recall the CC
license.

Anyway, I've blogged a longer post here:
http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.sg/2012/06/crowd-funding-to-buy-creative-commons.html

cheers
ivan

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