The Collapse of the Newspaper Industry and the Emergence of – What?
Newspapers are vanishing from the print media landscape. A history of consolidation and breakdowns in journalistic quality were the precursors, now the digitial information shift is the driving force. As we lose journalistic outlets the burning question becomes: what’s next?
Social publishing and my books
Social publishing allows an author to make a book available for free in electronic form, and encourages readers to rate it, share it, even re-use it if released under a Creative Commons license. This appears to have great synergy with driving interest in other works. I’m going to do this with some of my work in 2009.
