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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D_Sinclair" data-source="post: 2514212" data-attributes="member: 21823">You miss the entire point by looking at it from the consumer's point of view, rather than the publisher's. And neither of your factors actually addresses the inherent limitations of the ransom model, either. Both simply mean a string of ransom projects, rather than a single ransom project exceeding financial expectations.The ransom model, particularly when organized through fundables, puts a finite value on earnable income from a specific project. Ransom is met, fundables terminates collections, publisher generates no further income.In that perspective, the fact that a cheap sub-$3 PDF can sell for years and years, constantly increasing the total earned income, for-profit projects have a significant potential to surpass the financial value of the ransom distribution model, particularly if the sales/visits ratio on sales turns out to be significantly lower than the donations/visits ratio.A lot more analysis needs to be done on the ransom distribution to actually decide if it is successful. The fact that individual ransom goals have been met several times should not be veiwed as the exclusive mitigating factor for success. It may very well end up that the ransom model simply works, but is less successful that discount pricing, for example.</blockquote>