a few folks have mentioned that $10 USD is really expensive/unaffordable in some countries. has anyone seen good approaches to dealing with this?
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Replying to @b0rk
Since every price which isn't free is expensive to someone, I am generally in camp "Price really aggressively against people who can clearly afford it and use the resulting financial stability to price everything else at free."
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Me if you want a somewhat quixotic example. Most "public intellectuals" are broadly in the same ballpark, where their output is generally widely available at $0 (or very slightly above for books) and the things they actually charge for are $gadzooks.
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Replying to @b0rk
Or consulting, or advising, or whatever. (In my case, it was generally "Here's N million words about topics which you might find interesting. Are you a software company? I have some other words which may be relevant to your interests; you can buy them cached or live, your call.")
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So I did consulting and had a number of "stock engagements", which one could caricature as being a live reading of advice. (There was some curation and pressing of buttons, too, but the caricature isn't totally wrong.) I sold (sell, technically) one of those on video ("cached").
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thanks! the "give away free words to get great consulting/speaking gigs" model isn't something i'm interested in but I know it works really well for lots of people!
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Sure thing! (Not a thing I do anymore, either, for what I suspect are similar reasons.) FWIW: If I were capable of doing what you do I'd probably charge $50 ~ $250 for the artifact versions (to maximize revenue from pros) and have semiformal or informal way to get them for free.
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"Artifact versions" = the crystalized, deliverable, final-is-a-weird-word-for-anything-that-is-digital-but-it-seems-useful-anyway. Semiformal or informal: among friends, varies from the postcard test to "write me and I'll make a call" to semipublic permission to find a torrent.
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FWIW from someone who fed his family with downloadables only for a lot of years: when I only had the one thing to sell, I found my satisfaction with life went way down with a variant on "Write me"; seemed to be all of the guilt with none of the virtuous consumption.
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