The current existence of the publishing industry is doomed. I’ve been saying this for a while, but this article does a artful job making this case and I thought I’d share it with you (thanks for the link John).
Here’s just a sample of what awaits you in the article,
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
Given that I found this article via a friend on IM, and then tweeted it existence to the world – I’m thinking this author is dead-on.
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…and I found it via the RSS feed for a blog I read. A blog that comes from some of the good folks at Time *magazine*.
I have a few friends who used to write for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the CityPaper and the like. They now all work at Temple. They got out while the getting was good.
Evolve or die. Who knows how bad this economy is going to hit the dinosaurs.
You know that huge crater down near the Yucatan?
That’s the best discussion I’ve heard on the topic so far.
It makes me kind of sad to think that print in general is going in this direction. I mean I’m all for thinks like online journal articles, databases, maps that are interactive and the like; but the impending demise of books makes me rather sad.
Though it never ceases to amaze me how much people want to stick with plans that effectively keep the staus quo by forcing everyone to do what they want to happen. Such as enforcing copy right laws that don’t make sense anymore.
Which brings me to thinking about how we do this in church all the time. It makes me wonder at the more broad world wide evolution and how as Christians we are going to deal with it. We collectively need to move out of this, and badly.