Comments on: “E” is for Experiment (Not eBooks) http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/e-is-for-experiment-not-e-books/ The publishing community for the 21st Century Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:16:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim Barrus http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/e-is-for-experiment-not-e-books/comment-page-1/#comment-5801 Tim Barrus Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:24:38 +0000 http://digitalbookworld.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-5801 Flexible. Yes. Willing to fathom that the old paradigms don't always work; it's just not a hard-and-fast rule to hide behind. Other ways of doing things. Perhaps like being around. Being off the entire summer, the entire month of December, June's convention time -- they're simply not available to anyone so why not turn to self-publishing -- and just by-pass the suits entirely. It's not the 19th-Century. Maybe the suits could even at least CONSIDER the possibility of a writer submitting his or her OWN digital content to augment a traditional narrative. I know. It's HERESY. It's annoying to have anyone even bring the subject up. The suits' rules get set in concrete. It's one thing to bring up these issues in a public way. They see that as an assault. It's not an assault. A real assault is to simply marginalize them. They know exactly how that works because they invented it. The REALITY is that the suits are NOT open to new ideas. They fight them every step of the way. They only turn to new paradigms when they begin to understand that their intransigence might cost them. And it's going to. I see the writing on my Facebook wall every day. More and more and more people are looking at taking their work and their projects to a place where those projects can get the attention they deserve. It hasn't really hit home for the suits yet because their suit noses are so glued to the corporate bottom line that the future remains an abstract phenomenon. Flexible. Yes. Willing to fathom that the old paradigms don’t always work; it’s just not a hard-and-fast rule to hide behind. Other ways of doing things. Perhaps like being around. Being off the entire summer, the entire month of December, June’s convention time — they’re simply not available to anyone so why not turn to self-publishing — and just by-pass the suits entirely. It’s not the 19th-Century. Maybe the suits could even at least CONSIDER the possibility of a writer submitting his or her OWN digital content to augment a traditional narrative. I know. It’s HERESY. It’s annoying to have anyone even bring the subject up. The suits’ rules get set in concrete. It’s one thing to bring up these issues in a public way. They see that as an assault. It’s not an assault. A real assault is to simply marginalize them. They know exactly how that works because they invented it. The REALITY is that the suits are NOT open to new ideas. They fight them every step of the way. They only turn to new paradigms when they begin to understand that their intransigence might cost them. And it’s going to. I see the writing on my Facebook wall every day. More and more and more people are looking at taking their work and their projects to a place where those projects can get the attention they deserve. It hasn’t really hit home for the suits yet because their suit noses are so glued to the corporate bottom line that the future remains an abstract phenomenon.
Tim Barrus´s last [type] ..here at the- hotel du nord- we- just throw the dead ones-

]]> By: Guy L. Gonzalez http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/e-is-for-experiment-not-e-books/comment-page-1/#comment-6111 Guy L. Gonzalez Thu, 20 May 2010 21:49:49 +0000 http://digitalbookworld.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-6111 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">"Wordpress has arguably done more to transform publishing than any e-reader or Tablet computer ever will..." http://bit.ly/a97Yze (Jan,'10)</span></span> "Wordpress has arguably done more to transform publishing than any e-reader or Tablet computer ever will…" http://bit.ly/a97Yze (Jan,'10)

]]> By: Don Linn http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/e-is-for-experiment-not-e-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 Don Linn Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:12:37 +0000 http://digitalbookworld.wordpress.com/?p=287#comment-1128 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @DigiBookWorld: Flashback: "E" is for Experiment (Not eBooks) http://bit.ly/93Lt4I (eBooks are just one tree in the publishing forest.)</span></span> RT @DigiBookWorld: Flashback: "E" is for Experiment (Not eBooks) http://bit.ly/93Lt4I (eBooks are just one tree in the publishing forest.)

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