It was a seemingly innocuous situation… I was sitting in a room filled with publishing types: book publishers, librarians, agents, industry press, metadata specialists, and consultants of varying shapes and sizes. We were there in an advisory role to one of the digital publishing conferences. Read the rest of this entry »
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meg white
on Aug 1st, 2011
@ 7:33 am:
you may be going mainstream, but you’ll never be ordinary.
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Martyn Daniels
on Aug 1st, 2011
@ 8:06 am:
Evan probably one step behind you for different but silimliar reasons
Still have a lot to say and input but it like watching the children grow up – sometimes you have to let go
Martyn
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Jack W Perry
on Aug 1st, 2011
@ 9:39 am:
I am sure we will hear many of your thoughts in the various other venues. Good luck and look forward to you r next blog.
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David Worlock
on Aug 1st, 2011
@ 11:48 am:
Evan Well , I have loved your work on this site , and I think your new glasses are an improvement . But as to your point ? Well , I have known that we were living in a digital first world since 1985 and the revolution in science and professional publishing . The frustration has been that general consumer entertainment publishing workflow and marketplaces took so long to catch on – and always assumed that they were somehow ” publishing ” in essence . So lets drop digital – and lets drop “publishing ” with it !
Thanks for great arguments sustained over the years ! David
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Jay Huldeen
on Aug 11th, 2011
@ 8:15 am:
Evan, my dear friend, you went corporate back in 1986. I’m glad you have finally realized it.
It would be interesting to hear your musings on the how the effective transfer of control of ‘content’ (what a dreary word when the emphasis is on the first syllable!) from the old order to the digerati will affect our culture generally. Do you think we will continue to get stupider, or are you hopeful that somehow there will be a recovery of real literacy? Or am I simply wrong in my premises?
The new glasses are very corporate, and a good look for you. Please let us know where to find your new blog.
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