Guardian Unlimited | Online | Making the web pay
The internet is coming close to answering the question creative people have been asking for years. Can an individual with a talent for writing, drawing, photography or music use the internet, not to create millions, but to make enough to live comfortably and do what they want to do professionally?
Ben Hammersley writing in the Guardian, offers up a basic but nonetheless useful overview of personal publishing and micro-payments. Scott McCloud is used as a prime user of the latter. A veteran comic writer and artist who has written two books on the comic genre (Understanding Comics and Re-inventing Comics), and famously suggests in both that the way forward for artists is the Internet and micropayments. A man who truely walks the talk.
BTW - I'm not proposing anyone starts paying me anything to read this but all comments are gratefully received and are the payment I would appreciate most :). Of course anyone wanting to pay me considerable sums, please email me immediately...if not sooner!
Posted by Paul Goodison at August 7, 2003 10:16 PM | TrackBack