Cyberfunded Creativity and the Masses

I hadn't considered this as a possibility. Looking at it now, there are indicators pointing in opposite directions.

Pro: Pagans network like mad. They want nonfiction. They cluster around well-known writers of Pagan nonfiction, developing favorites whose work they follow avidly.

Con: As Oberon Zell-Ravenheart so colorfully puts it, "Leading Pagans may be like herding cats, but getting money from them is like milking geese." Much Pagan nonfiction is available online for free.

Additional considerations: Pagan magazines are folding; those that survive are rarely doing well. This narrows the market somewhat. Online sources are plentiful but few of them offer material of professional quality, and most of the material is beginner or at most intermediate level. Writers write what pays; when there's not a market that makes it worthwhile, what you get is amateur stuff because the professionals have gone elsewhere. Most cyberfunded creativity relies on micropayments of $10 or less: below the impulse threshold. That may make it more appealing to Pagans than buying a whole book or magazine subscription.

Let's find out. I've got Pagans in my audience and I've written vast amounts of Pagan nonfiction. How many of you would be inclined to pay me for it? Because this is definitely something you can have if you want it badly enough.

Thanks for pointing me toward this.