[s1artibartfast]

This model is coming back in a few small ways. Established writers I like Brandon Sanderson have shown that you can crowdsource funding for full length novels. They're also a large number of less established authors that produce chapters and are funded by patreons are equivalent as they go, similar to the magazine model.

Lasting probably at least there is a cool ecosystem of essentially book club podcasts. Some of the more successful have patreons of Their Own and kick back a percentage of donations to the original authors.

I think it's very cool to see some more diversity in literature funding models

[vkou]

> Established writers I like Brandon Sanderson have shown that you can crowdsource funding for full length novels.

... If you're already an established household name.

[s1artibartfast]

That's exactly what I wrote. And it's cool