Creativity question

[nats]

we first started thinking about this as a project quite awhile ago, mainly as a way of bringing in some much needed funds for MM. still, we can see the point that contributors should get some money out of it as well.

how it would work would depend largely on the publisher and the arrangements we could negotiate with them (e.g. either i put together a proposal to fund book preparation, in which case we could pay contributors a set amount based on what they put into it, or we rely on negotiating some post-publication royalties, which might be trickier to divide fairly amongst a group of us). either way, it's not going to be a huge amount of money we're talking about because our target audience is not yet that big.

as for collaborative writing across time-zones, that's not so bad. we do it regularly for other projects .