Comments on: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson released

By: ThatsSkarWithAK

ThatsSkarWithAK — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:10:29 +0000

Fair enough Regis, I stand corrected. I know you didn’t mention money, I just assumed that some form of payment would cross hands at some point, as with Lawrence.

They do say the devil is in the detail.

By: Regis

Regis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:21:25 +0000

Ah, I did not claim Sanderson was first with the idea, just merely experimenting. The two ideas is also very different. Watt-Evan get paid by his reader for each chapter while Sanderson just release all writing for free and then publish the book, without any readers having to pay anything for the complete book in e-format.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:02:17 +0000

Shoot, beat me to it, but absolutely correct. Lawrence started with the Spriggan-Mirror as a way to continue his Ethshar series, which readers loved but his publishers didn’t feel was selling well enough. He details his first experiment here

http://www.ethshar.com/thesprigganmirror.html

By: ThatsSkarWithAK

ThatsSkarWithAK — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:34:48 +0000

Not the first with this idea.

Writer in the US – Lawrence Watt-Evan, basically wrote a book, chapter by chapter. His fan base “donated” money (once a figure was reached) and they recieved the new chapters.

I think it was a way for the fans to pay the author to write book(s) about lands they loved, but no publisher was interested in paying for a complete book.

http://www.watt-evans.com/realmsoflight9.html

and this is the explanation

http://www.watt-evans.com/realmsoflight0.html

I hope this helps.