-Made with Creative Commons
-
-Paul Stacey and Sarah Hinchliff Pearson
+% Made with Creative Commons
+% Paul Stacey;Sarah Hinchliff Pearson
Made With Creative Commons
Creative Commons and backers of our crowdfunding-campaign on the
Kickstarter.com platform.
-“I don’t know a whole lot about nonfiction journalism. . .
-The way that I think about these things, and in terms of what I can do
-is. . . essays like this are occasions to watch somebody reasonably
-bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at
-far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have
-a chance to in our daily lives.”
-
-
-
-- David Foster Wallace
+> “I don’t know a whole lot about nonfiction journalism. . .
+> The way that I think about these things, and in terms of what I can do
+> is. . . essays like this are occasions to watch somebody reasonably
+> bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at
+> far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have
+> a chance to in our daily lives.”
+>
+>
+>
+> — *David Foster Wallace*
## Foreword
*Paul and Sarah *
-# Part 1
# The Big Picture
Here are the most common high-level categories.
-#### Providing a custom service to consumers of your work * \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Providing a custom service to consumers of your work *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
In this age of information abundance, we don’t lack for content. The
trick is finding content that matches our needs and wants, so customized
cultural consulting services provided by Ártica to the custom-song
business of Jonathan “Song-A-Day” Mann.
-#### Charging for the physical copy * \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Charging for the physical copy *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
In his book about maker culture, Anderson characterizes this model as
giving away the bits and selling the atoms (where bits refers to digital
with other providers of the same works based on quality, service, or
other traditional business principles.
-#### Charging for the in-person version * \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Charging for the in-person version *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
As anyone who has ever gone to a concert will tell you, experiencing
creativity in person is a completely different experience from consuming
people go view original art in person or pay to attend a talk or
training course.
-#### Selling merchandise * \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Selling merchandise *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
In many cases, people who like your work will pay for products
demonstrating a connection to your work. As a child of the 1980s, I can
platforms.36 Access to your audience isn’t the only thing people are
willing to pay for—there are other services you can provide as well.
-#### Charging advertisers or sponsors * \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Charging advertisers or sponsors *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
The traditional model of subsidizing free content is advertising. In
this version of multi-sided platforms, advertisers pay for the
display advertising, the advertiser pays to be an official sponsor of
particular content or projects, or of the overall endeavor.
-#### Charging your content creators * \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Charging your content creators *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
Another type of multisided platform is where the content creators
themselves pay to be featured on the platform. Obviously, this revenue
universities pay to have their faculties participate as writers of the
content on the Conversation website.
-#### Charging a transaction fee * \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Charging a transaction fee *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
This is a version of a traditional business model based on brokering
transactions between parties.39 Curation is an important element of this
site pays a maker to make furniture based on one of the designs on the
platform.
-#### Providing a service to your creators* \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Providing a service to your creators *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
As mentioned above, endeavors can make money by providing customized
services to their users. Platforms can undertake a variation of this
this model by providing paid tools to help their users make the data
they contribute to the platform more discoverable and reusable.
-#### Licensing a trademark* \[MARKET-BASED\]*
+#### Licensing a trademark *\[MARKET-BASED\]*
Finally, some that are Made with Creative Commons make money by selling
use of their trademarks. Well known brands that consumers associate with
from thinking of consumers as passive recipients of your content and
transition them into active participants.75
-#### Notes
+### Notes
1. Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Business Model Generation
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2010), 14. A preview of the book
creativecommons.org/share-your-work/.
-# Part 2
# The Case Studies
Jonathan Mann is a singer and songwriter who is most well known as the
“Song A Day” guy. Based in the U.S.
-jonathanmann.net and
-
-jonathanmann.bandcamp.com
+jonathanmann.net and jonathanmann.bandcamp.com
Revenue model: charging for custom services, pay-what-you-want,
crowdfunding (subscription-based), charging for in-person version
3. cnx.org
4. www.siyavula.com/products-primary-school.html
-## Sparkfun
+## SparkFun
SparkFun is an online electronics retailer specializing in open
hardware. Founded in 2003 in the U.S.