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Publishing’s suicide

December 5, 2009 Being a Writer

Jesse Kornbluth from PW:

Book publishing has been trying to commit suicide for all the decades I’ve been writing, and now it’s finally getting some traction on that project. Its latest folly is ironic: one of our most antitechnology businesses now places unrealistic hopes on technology as a savior, a textbook case of an American [...]

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I just wonder…

April 8, 2009 Being a Writer

A. O. Scott, writing in the NYT:
“And just as the iPod has killed the album, so the Kindle might, in time, spur a revival of the short story. If you can buy a single song for a dollar, why wouldn’t you spend that much on a handy, compact package of character, incident and linguistic invention? [...]

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Driving readers away with advertising

March 14, 2009 Commonplace Book

A Working Library – On advertising:
So, let’s stop pretending, shall we? Any economy which charges ever less for ever more intrusive ads will eventually be successful not in creating wealth but in driving the readers away, until the only ones left to heed the ads are all the other ads, the cell phones searching in [...]

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Tweetfight

February 12, 2009 This Made Me Smile

Wanna see how quickly things can get really screwy on Twitter? Here’s a fun little exchange between @aprildunford and @sirdavid, during which National Post reporter David George-Cosh gets pwned and implodes. Read it all here.
I think it’s particularly amusing that @sirdavid has now protected his updates. Probably a better idea to just mind what you [...]

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Media predictions for 2009

January 7, 2009 Observations

We don’t really need experts to tell us that the media landscape is changing, do we?
Just the same, I found these two articles interesting, both as a participant in the media industry and as an observer of how the interwebs are reformatting notions of normalcy.

Clay Shirky, author of one of my favorite non-fiction books [...]

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