End of a Decade

Re:End of a Decade by pjc50 on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:41AM (#21627220)

I think he should have written "disintermediated" for those examples. There are now fewer intermediaries, maybe only a single layer - but the companies in that layer occupy almost all of it.

You can publish books without having to worry about publishing and distribution - if you go through the publication-and-distribution vertically integrated monolith.

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Re:End of a Decade by amursft on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:10AM (#21627370)

Yeah, this would totally have been a better / more nuanced way to put it.

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Re:End of a Decade by phoe-krk on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:45AM (#21627234)

I agree. Publishing overall is substantially easier.

Publishing without going through the publishing monopoly is substantially harder though.

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Re:End of a Decade by Nasrudith on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:56AM (#21628592)

This may be a minor distinction but it is easier to publish but harder to get reach when disconnected. This is important in a "allowed to try" way.

Generally for books and music the answer for "should I sell on Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Soundcloud, or my own website" is "yes".

In addition to convenience people are understandably leery about where they put their credit card info and the financial infastructure hasn't generally caught up although there are a few "one-off" credit card number generators.

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