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The Sermo (Cook) article had this tidbit:
"For Cambridge, Mass.-based Sermo, a two-year-old company, it's a chance to have organized medicine hear the voices of its 16,000 physician members (and growing at 500 to 1,000 per week). Meanwhile, Sermo hopes the move will build its credibility with Wall Street firms that pay it $100,000 to $500,000 per year to stay atop physician trends, view postings and take physician surveys. Physicians can get paid up to $20 for each highly ranked post they make."
There a couple of things in there that may be relevant models to consider for the Sourcebook. Note that the $20 scheme requires a method of ranking contributions, something that currently doesn't exist in the CEP wiki environment. But selling subscriptions to media organizations might be a way to reduce other user's subscription fees.
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