Sharing Ideas on Creative Commons Business Models
Here’s an episode from a new three part online documentary film about the use of Creative Commons licenses and open source style business models in the publishing world.
In this segment John Buckman talks about his experience with Magnatune and Bookmooch.
Two areas Content Developers may find particularly interesting are John’s insights into scale and his concise breakdown of the freemium model.
Other segments in the doc series include a talk with Timo Hannay from Nature Magazine about bringing an open source philosophy to the publication of scientific journals and a visit with Tom Reynolds, a London Ambulance Service E.M.T. who shares his experience publishing his book Blood, Sweat and Tea and blog Random Acts of Reality.
via BookMooch Blog