Great post yesterday from John Scalzi on making money from posting your work online:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/scalzifeed/978000.html

Some highlights:

"Agent to the Stars: This is famously my first novel, which I put online as "shareware" in 1999 and for which I accepted donations through 2004. I made about $4,000 that way, which was not shabby considering I was not a known quantity in science fiction at the time. Since that time, it’s been sold to three separate publishers (one for hardcover, one for paperback, one foreign publisher), each time for thousands of dollars."

"But the point to make, again, is that "free to the reader" is not the same as "unpaid to the writer." I have gotten paid for the fiction I’ve put online. I do get paid for it."

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