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"LessonBites  is a new video site that aims to provide an online marketplace for instructors and consumers.\nAs an instructor, you can upload a video to LessonBites.  This will cost you about $10 per video, not including the membership fee required upon registration, which allows you to upload one instructional and three sample videos.  When users purchase your instructional video to download, you earn money.  LessonBites seems to have taken the Apple approach to pricing, making all videos $0.99 for consumers.  Purchased videos aren't downloaded to your computer as a consumer, but instead saved in your LessonBites account.  This is promoted as a way to prevent piracy, but it comes across as being worse than DRM restrictions, and increases the risk for consumers given the start-up status of the site. \nAs an instructor, you'll need to register a separate account on LessonBites, and submit a proposal for the types of videos you'll be uploading, which are all approved by the editorial staff prior to becoming available online.  This is somewhat limiting as well, as some instructors may have more than one area of expertise, and the distinct separation of instructor and consumer can be a hindrance for site interaction and usability.  I'd also like to see a more involved way in which instructors can be voted to the top, considering the somewhat expensive model for this educational video marketplace, as well as more control to the instructors, to determine their own prices for videos (which would be more of a true marketplace) as well as different options by which videos can earn revenue, including ad-based models.\nSee also:  The 10 Best Places To Find How-To Videos\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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