http://www.openculture.com/2009/08/the_future_of_content_delivery.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:36:53 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.openculture.com/2009/08/the_future_of_content_delivery.html/comment-page-1#comment-6801 Seth Harwood Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:56:09 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4566#comment-6801 Blake- Good point! But if we look at the landscape of publishing today, we largely see two models. The standard is to put up a big investment (risk) to print a large number of copies you're hoping to sell, and Print On Demand, which reduces your risk, but raises your cost per book. So compared to these, the solicitation of subscribers looks like a great new movement! On the other hand, you're totally right about nothing new under the sun. To put it in a less French way than Dan did, I guess we're going "Back to the Future!" Blake- Good point! But if we look at the landscape of publishing today, we largely see two models. The standard is to put up a big investment (risk) to print a large number of copies you’re hoping to sell, and Print On Demand, which reduces your risk, but raises your cost per book.
So compared to these, the solicitation of subscribers looks like a great new movement!
On the other hand, you’re totally right about nothing new under the sun.
To put it in a less French way than Dan did, I guess we’re going “Back to the Future!”

]]> http://www.openculture.com/2009/08/the_future_of_content_delivery.html/comment-page-1#comment-6792 Dan Colman Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:45:41 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4566#comment-6792 Or as they said during those days: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, kind of, sort of... Or as they said during those days: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, kind of, sort of…

]]> http://www.openculture.com/2009/08/the_future_of_content_delivery.html/comment-page-1#comment-6791 Blake Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:56:18 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4566#comment-6791 Soliciting subscribers, or "pre-selling" as you call it, is hardly "a model so far ahead of everyone else"; it's the way the publication of many books were funded in the late 17th and 18th century. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Soliciting subscribers, or “pre-selling” as you call it, is hardly “a model so far ahead of everyone else”; it’s the way the publication of many books were funded in the late 17th and 18th century. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

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