Rough Cuts (books)
Encyclopedia
Rough Cuts is a trademarked service from Safari Books Online
. It allows users to subscribe to evolving manuscripts of books in progress, before they are published.
The Rough Cuts service is based on the model put forth by Tim O'Reilly
in "The Long Snout" which that revenues can be made at the earliest stages of the authoring process. This idea is in turn based on the ideas put forth in Chris Anderson
's The Long Tail
business model.
Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online LLC is a digital library founded in July 2001 and headquartered in Sebastopol, CA with offices in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA...
. It allows users to subscribe to evolving manuscripts of books in progress, before they are published.
The Rough Cuts service is based on the model put forth by Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:...
in "The Long Snout" which that revenues can be made at the earliest stages of the authoring process. This idea is in turn based on the ideas put forth in Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson may refer to:* Chris Anderson , founder of Future Publishing and curator of the TED Conference* Chris Anderson , author, journalist, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, popularized "The Long Tail"* Chris Anderson , football player, educator, former Vice-Chairman of Aberdeen F.C.*...
's The Long Tail
The Long Tail
The Long Tail or long tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a 'normal' or Gaussian distribution...
business model.