Creative Commons Launches Kickstarter Campaign for a Book

By Maryann Yin 

The Creative Commons team hopes to raise $50,000 on Kickstarter. This nonprofit organization plans to create a book on open business models. We’ve embedded a video about the project above.

Here’s more from the Kickstarter page: “With your help, we are going to identify and select a diverse group of two dozen businesses, creators, and organizations from around the world succeeding with business models made with Creative Commons. Then we’re going to dig deep into how they work to show how using Creative Commons can produce economic and social value. Our goal is not to identify a formula for business models that utilize CC, but instead to gather fresh ideas and dynamic examples that will help spark new, innovative models that build on what is already working.”

Welcome to our Kickstarter Publishing Project of the Week, a feature exploring how authors and publishers are using the fundraising site to raise money for book projects. If you want to start your own project, check out How To Use Kickstarter to Fund Your Publishing Project.