Unbound Wants to be Kickstarter for Authors
Crowdfunding has deeply affected the way many people look at their entertainment and the artists who create it. Where popular art, fiction, music, and even games once only came from monolithic institutions that had a disproportionate amount of say over what the public got to consume, now Kickstarter, Indiegogo and its brethren have made it so the public can access and fund any work they want to see or hear, independently of larger industry trends. Still, most people consider crowdfunding solely as a way to fund the actual creation of a project, not to directly compensate creators for their work. This is why most art that people fund on sites like Kickstarter are projects that take large amounts of cash to complete such as albums, movies, comics, and video games. However, cool product Unbound wants to use the crowdfunding model as an alternative to the book industry and, even more significantly, want to use it to compensate authors directly. Read more »
