Cognitive Surplus and Narrative Architecture
How many times have you gone online to look for a bit of info on how to take down that last boss, find all of those steel ingots in Fallout, [...]
Tag Archives: future
Who’s to Blame for Used Prices?
According to the rumor mills, the next round of video game systems will prevent the play of used games (go here or here or here for some of those rumors; [...]
Corporate-Sponsored Creativity… Good or Bad?
After watching last night’s Community, I tried to shake off my inner-anti-corporate bigotry. I really did.Yes, Subway was all over the episode, and they did a tremendous job of integrating [...]
Fiction as Brain Food
This weekend, the NY Times ran an op/ed piece titled “Your Brain on Fiction” by Annie Murphy Paul (online version here). It was a fascinating article, and if you haven’t [...]
New Media and Old Thoughts
A while back, I posted this article about consumerism and its effect on the individual. I got a couple of personal email responses from it, one from a lady who [...]
What is Wrong with Price Collusion?
If you’ve read The Wall Street Journal’s article on the impending DoJ’s investigation of potential price collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, it might seem kind [...]
The Burning Fire
The Kindle Fire is out now. Big freakin’ whoop, right? Right. A couple of months ago, I told my wife to go ahead and start saving up for my Fire, [...]
The sad story of Push Pop Press
Let me begin by saying that it’s a sad story for most of us; it’s not a sad story for Push Pop, nor is it a sad story for Facebook. [...]
The future of publishing (part 3 of 3): publishers
When considering the future of the business from a publisher’s perspective, it must be noted that this is extremely hypothetical. Too much of the business is in a state of [...]
The future of publishing (part 2 of 3): the authors
With the inevitable changes taking place now and in the future, I believe that authors are going to benefit in the long run. As more and more of us publishers [...]
