Re: contracting in New York city


Robert <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:38:12 +1200, "Pete Dashwood"
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Publishing is a sinking ship because it is stuck with obsolete technology.



What DO you mean by this? Isn't publishing the very essence of the
internet? Videos, blogs, web sites - all meant to get information or
opinions out there.

Or do you mean "publishing" in the much more restricted sense of words on
paper? If so, you haven't got much of a case either. You must assume that
the publishing industry has access to exactly the same technology as every
other industry. You can correctly point out that newspaper readership is
declining. You can also point out that book-publishing is experiencing
razor-thin profit margins. But to say that the industry is sinking is
silly. It's still adapting to the internet as is every other content-based
industry. (An example of its adapting is the "publish/print on demand"
concept - print the book only when someone actually wants one, and soft or
no covers at that - an enormous boon for students if not the professors who
write the texts). I'll remind you that nobody has yet made a portable
electronic book - no matter how many books you can download to it and no
matter how clear and large the screen and no matter how many pages you can
display at once - that has replaced even a minute percentage of the paper
book market. Remember also that no less a person than Bill Gates has been
quoted as saying that if a report runs to more than 3 or 4 pages he'll print
it. Newspaper readership has declined but hundreds of millions are still
printed and read each day. I defy you to propose a technology that can
print and collate 350,000 copies af a 120-page newspaper (as in Winnipeg -
the Free Press) between 12:30a.m. and 3:30 a.m., on pulp paper, in a
standard newspaper-sized page, apart from the big rotary presses they use.
And these stopped using steam power long ago!

(Apropos of this - PD's book is to be publish-on-demand, n'est-ce pas?)

The telephone was supposed to replace the telegraph. Well, it did, by about
1965, and it's only in the last ten years or so that you no longer have to
learn Morse to get your international ham license.

Radio was supposed to replace newspapers.
Films were supposed to replace live performances.
TV was supposed to replace theatres AND newspapers.
Now the internet is supposed to replace them all.

Well, let's wait and see.

PL





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