What I'm wondering is if being well-known will matter as much. If there will be more artists who are known to fewer people. My students listen to a lot of musicians who aren't well-known.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:02 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2:04 pm, Jonathan Sherwood <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Stross had an interesting take on this in Accelerondo. He laid out a > world > > where doing something for money became unfashionable; it was preferable > to > > do something for free and then reap the rewards of the kudos or > reputation > > you received because of it. Essentially, reputation became the new > > barter-esque currency. > > Cory Doctorow did the same two years earlier in Down and Out in the > Magic Kingdom. That's how Cory made his name. There was a lot of talk > on the Net at that time or earlier about how important reputations > were becoming and noting that message boards were allowing people to > vote on other people's status and positing all sorts of changes > thereof. > > In fact, nothing really changed. Sure, a few authors have become well- > known and even bestselling for marketing themselves on the web with > free content, but a few authors have always stood out because of their > marketing. A few groups have become known for their free music. A few > have become known for their movies. A few have become known for their > blogs. The tools changed but the underlying economic reality still > means that to make money their products get sold in the old-fashioned > way. Google "reputation economy" for discussion of this. Five years > old and already obsolete. > > Craig, the Guild is most definitely defending an existing business. > The audio book business is the one part of publishing that's making > money. > > Steve > > > -- Janice --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
