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Posts tagged publishing
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Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers won’t pay for content anymore. At least, that’s how they see it.

In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn’t better content cost more?

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Post-Medium Publishing via Matt Lane
“ I hate the term “outsider art,” as some touch of mental illness is a necessity for creative genius, and stigmatizing those who fall to far on the spectrum is done so, at the perpetuation of the literary careers of well-groomed perfect i-dotters and t-crossers, whose banal fiction is the real reason (not the Internet, not the Kindle, not the recession) publishing is in such desperation.
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Panning for Gold as Reading and the Creativity of Outsiders
“ The “stupid publisher” notion has gained wide currency. It stems from the view that the internet is very different and “old media” publishers are set on bringing old media thinking to it. But the main piece of old thinking that publishers like Colman are trying to bring to the internet is the idea that publishers should be able to pay people real wages to create content.
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The dysfunctional internet … or why Barry Colman isn’t stupid
“ Cutting through that clutter can be difficult, but Vanessa Choy managed to do it with two simple strategies: persistence and candor.
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Design and the Media - Dwell