[spectre] Publishing and the Digital Revolution.

[marc garrett]

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Publishing and the Digital Revolution.

Article by Edward Picot.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=406

 From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from 
print-on-demand to new styles of writing, this article attempts to 
analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing 
industry, and to make some educated guesses about how things may develop 
in the next few years.

"An alternative to the Big Publishing model is already with us, and 
despite the odd viral phenomenon it consists in the main of very large 
numbers of small-scale products reaching small audiences, rather than 
small numbers of very high-profile products reaching huge audiences. 
This alternative model is enabled by digital technology, and it replaces 
high production values and market-minded editorial controls with the 
principle that people's desire to publish themselves and to look at each 
other's efforts is itself a profit motor."

Co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange.
http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdigitalpublishing.php
Edward Picot's personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

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