Comments on: books vs web

By: David Burn

David Burn — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:32:54 +0000

Shirky has some interesting things to say about this topic. Here’s a sample:
“Weblogs destroy this extrinsic value as well. Print publishing acts as a filter, weblogs do not. Whatever you want to offer the world — a draft of your novel, your thoughts on the war, your shopping list — you get to do it, and any filtering happens after the fact, through mechanisms like blogdex and Google. Publishing your writing in a weblog creates none of the imprimatur of having it published in print.”

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:56:38 +0000

Peter, point taken, but perhaps I don’t need a royalty from my readers?
Perhaps if I had the choice, I’d rather see the ideas spread further, and forsake the money bit?
Perhaps not?

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:46:36 +0000

The problem is that you don’t receive a set royalty for each visitor to the blog. There are benefits at the end of the day, for real, but getting 25,000 visitors a blog just isn’t as exciting as selling 25,000 books.
Even better is if you can self publish and sell those 25,000 copies yourself.. kill the middle-man

By: Sarthak

Sarthak — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:26:54 +0000

Hey Hugh,
Consonance from yonder! Quite my feelings. Had made a short post on the same a while back. it’s here to catch on this permalink:
http://consumercy.typepad.com/consumercy/2004/10/strongso_much_f.html
Got routed to your blog for the first time today. Was great reading you.
Finest New year Wishes.
Stay pink,
Sarthak