Sometimes it seems like the more I write, the less you people read, so I’m going to get right to the point today. If this page that exists to promote The God Conclusion is going to continue to exist, it needs to produce more income than I’m currently earning from book sales. I don’t really mind donating my time in an effort to entertain you, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to at least break even if I’m going to sustain this effort.
Again, if we were selling enough books to offset expenses this wouldn’t be an issue. Currently, the most you can do is buy a book and maybe then write an Amazon review, but someone would need to buy more than a thousand books just to stop my budget from bleeding red. That isn’t a very realistic goal, so I need to come up with a new plan.
One option I mentioned yesterday is this new feature called Facebook subscriptions, where I sell some of you premium memberships to the page and reduce the content flow available to every visitor. However, the more I think about that option, the less I like it. The first thing I noticed was the suggested subscription price per month was five dollars, which seems kind of high when I can’t even sell enough eight dollar ebooks to meet expenses.
Another option I’m now investigating is introducing “stars” — basically, if you like something I post, Facebook will sell you stars at a penny apiece, and then you give the stars to me, and Facebook pays me for them. Seems like a bit of a racket where Facebook takes a cut, but that would seem to give you, the visitor, the ability to support my work without commitment, sort of a pay-as-you-go system of reward for good content. Everybody could still see everything I post, and people could give as much as they felt like, but only when they felt like I deserve it.
If every one of the seventeen thousand people following this page gave me only a dollar per month, I would be earning a handsome profit, but I’d happily settle for breaking even. If you have a preference for a new system with stars or subscriptions, let me know in the comments.
I’d just like to keep this going, but I’m going to need your help.
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