Wow. "Sign up to read more. You will have immediate access ...", followed by an enter-your-email box. Do that and you immediately hit a paywall. No "immediate access" for you.
That's ouright fraudulent, and I'm flagging this submission for it.
That's ouright fraudulent, and I'm flagging this submission for it.
I am glad you enjoyed what you read, though :)
This is a step in the right direction, but hiding price until you sign up remains problematic, while the "I want to read more!" button for email submission is disingenuous.
For me, the bottom of that page could be something in essence like "Buy the book now for a 'pay what you want' price and get immediate access to X content." I'm not sure you'd need much more (email can come as part of that process, and I'd ditch the bitcoin only payments for certain levels - just simplify it and if you need the bottom price to be slightly more to cover card fees, just increase the price to cover them).
Put it all front and centre - if it's a commercial book, that's fine - don't try and hide it, show the value it has and make it very easy to give you money.
I'll come back when I'm ready to pay.
I understand how you see the payment/signup process. However it didn’t even occur to me that people approaching the site would see it that way :) I found it engaging and charming with a haze of mystery. There’s a useful lesson here.
I’m 100% confident the author doesn’t mean to defraud anyone at all, in the slightest.
As I find the contents speak quite deeply to me, may I ask you to see how the author responds and reevaluate? I think this is first and foremost a labor of love and humanistic ambition.