On: Confessions of a Book Pirate

[sscheper]

Excellent story. Thanks for the share, blasdel. The wall street journal had an interesting article on this subject, as does Leo from Zenhabits.net

I recently decided to undergo a similar writing experiment on the concept of focus (http://howtogetfocused.com/) in which I use a technique that's like a freemium model...

This philosophy centers on the following characteristics:

Writing the book using a blogging platform (I’m using Wordpress) Listing one main author, and listing many contributing authors (you, the reader, are a contributing author if you comment) Releasing the book 100% for free online (and selling the offline format) Sourcing the book’s editor to the readers (Readers comment on each chapter suggesting spelling changes, organization changes, ideas and illustrations Crowd-sourcing the book’s design

[jamesbritt → sscheper]

Wow. QUite an interesting approach.

May I suggest that, since you're' using Wordpress, consider using digress.it?

http://digress.it/

It makes for very nice user commenting on book material.

[blasdel → jamesbritt]

"Real World Haskell" was done this way: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/

[jamesbritt → blasdel]

Different software though. Last time I looked it wasn't available.

I think I like that one better than digress.it though.