Eric Scoles wrote: > > ... > Which makes Schnittman's phrasing particularly interesting: "Ebooks > *must* fail." Because if they don't, the publishing industry > (including Oxford U Press) will have to be so radically restructured > that Schnittman will lose his job. Or worse, his spiritual footing. > > They must fail, so he can get to keep his hard-won understanding of > the world. Exactly. I don't feel that much apart from him in my own experience. My "hard-won understanding of the world" keeps getting overhauled and overmauled. I try to do what I can about it before it mauls me even more. Denial doesn't help. So when Nortel purged so many of us ten years ago, I was ready. > > > 6. A lot of people don't like this chaos -- a lot of middlemen > have to > reinvent themselves. But it's what we've facing, so we're better off > embracing it. The chaos creates new worlds of opportunity. It's > up to > us as creators of value to find and exploit them. > > > > I tend to see the negative on things like this. Oh yes. Most of what I posted here restates obvious negative points, but what to do? As Warren Zevon put it, "Life'll Kill Ya." > Chaos on this scale leaves pain in its wake. And we're just talking > about one industry, here: The changes you discuss, that we're all > aware of, and that the 'netbooks-ebooks etc.' post Frank offered point > to, all imply very radical restructuring of many industries. And > that's not even beginning to account for the ripple effects. > > True, there are opportunities to 'exploit.' But there's a reason > 'exploit' has largely negative connotations. LOL! Unless you're a major hacker... (;-)
But the negative for many of us includes having to do so much more self-promotion, advertising, marketing, sales, bargaining, buttering-up, weasel-wording, deals, contracts -- all the business those handy middlemen disposed of in the old universe. I loathed all that. Now I have to learn to make it fun, or at least not nauseating. The guy on "Have Gun, Will Travel" had a business card, I think... > > Not that I disagree with you about any of it. > > We're pulling oars in the same fleet of lifeboats. Maybe we'll learn to navigate too. > > > -- > eric scoles ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
