Comments on: Oh, no! They’ve nuked L.A.—and the Red Monday podcast series tells what happens next http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/03/oh-no-theyve-nuked-la-and-red-monday-tells-what-happens-next/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/03/oh-no-theyve-nuked-la-and-red-monday-tells-what-happens-next/#comment-645939 David Rothman Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:51:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/03/oh-no-theyve-nuked-la-and-red-monday-tells-what-happens-next/#comment-645939 Hi, M-K. In your imagination it can be anything you want. Hey, this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%28radio%29" rel="nofollow">could be worse</a>. Happy holidays. David <em>Addendum:</em> Yes, technically, this is sci-fi territory---er, for now. :-( Hi, M-K. In your imagination it can be anything you want. Hey, this could be worse. Happy holidays. David

Addendum: Yes, technically, this is sci-fi territory—er, for now. :-(

]]> By: Munango-Keewati http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/03/oh-no-theyve-nuked-la-and-red-monday-tells-what-happens-next/#comment-645935 Munango-Keewati Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:42:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/03/oh-no-theyve-nuked-la-and-red-monday-tells-what-happens-next/#comment-645935 When did post-apocalypse fiction become "non-scifi"? When did post-apocalypse fiction become “non-scifi”?

]]> By: John Mark Ockerbloom http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/03/oh-no-theyve-nuked-la-and-red-monday-tells-what-happens-next/#comment-645173 John Mark Ockerbloom Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:55:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/03/oh-no-theyve-nuked-la-and-red-monday-tells-what-happens-next/#comment-645173 For folks writing for pay, this sort of what-will-happen-next serial seems to be the perfect kind of material for using the street performer protocol, i.e. "The next episode goes up as soon as I get $X". Open access *and* the author gets paid! (Note that the protocol typically involves a certain threshold dollar value, not a percentage of readers, as in the aborted Stephen King serial. With a threshold, paying readers can't get disappointed from 'freeloaders' interfering the release. And it gives an incentive to readers who want to find out the rest of the story sooner rather than later.) For folks writing for pay, this sort of what-will-happen-next serial seems to be the perfect kind of material for using the street performer protocol, i.e. “The next episode goes up as soon as I get $X”. Open access *and* the author gets paid!

(Note that the protocol typically involves a certain threshold dollar value, not a percentage of readers, as in the aborted Stephen King serial. With a threshold, paying readers can’t get disappointed from ‘freeloaders’ interfering the release. And it gives an incentive to readers who want to find out the rest of the story sooner rather than later.)

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