{"id":27015,"date":"2014-01-20T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T08:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/?p=27015"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T09:34:31","slug":"need-just-four-more-backers-start-ends-of-britain-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/need-just-four-more-backers-start-ends-of-britain-project\/","title":{"rendered":"I need just four more backers to start The Ends of Britain project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am nearly ready to start The Ends of Britain, my planned new series on the big issues facing Britain. Having started two weeks ago with a target of 25 backers, I have found 21, so need just four more by the end of today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaconreader.com\/projects\/the-ends-of-britain\" target=\"_blank\">You can find out more and back the project here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more explanation of my plans in previous posts on this site, <a href=\"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/help-me-write-about-future-britain-on-beacon\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/six-reasons-consider-paying-for-journalism-by-me\/\">here<\/a>. I also provided some <a href=\"http:\/\/benwhitelaw.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/01\/id-rather-have-a-few-committed-readers-than-lots-of-casual-anonymous-ones-qa-with-sa-mathieson-on-his-new-project-the-ends-of-britain\/\" target=\"_blank\">answers to questions from my old friend Ben Whitelaw<\/a> last week. One answer, which he pulled out in a headline, sums up why this project excites me:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In many ways I would rather have relatively few committed readers, who have a stake through paying for access and who will therefore tell me what they think and want, than lots of casual, anonymous ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, along the same lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The great thing about self-publishing is that your readers are your clients \u2013 the relationship is a direct one, and it leads to much more interaction than writing for a publication. Writing and publishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00BOW4EAK\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B00BOW4EAK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=samathiesonco-21\" target=\"_blank\">Card declined<\/a>, on the story of Britain and ID cards, led to some great email conversations and an evening discussing the issue with 40 digital rights activists crammed into the upstairs room of pub. It also means you can write about what you\u2019re passionate about, rather than what you can get commissioned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you subscribe and this goes ahead, you will get access to everything published on Beacon by 60+ writers, including my weekly series on the future of Britain, for $5 a month. So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaconreader.com\/projects\/the-ends-of-britain\" target=\"_blank\">sign up today<\/a> &#8211; and in this case, that <em>means<\/em> today as the fundraising closes at midnight GMT. 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You can find out more and back the project here. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/need-just-four-more-backers-start-ends-of-britain-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I need just four more backers to start The Ends of Britain project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I need just four more backers to start The Ends of Britain project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I need just four more backers to get my series on the future of the UK, The Ends of Britain, underway. 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