Money? What money‪?‬ This is not the future of the book

Some thoughts prompted by Touchpress’s pivot.



Touchpress, who?
The core problem with the app stores.
The difference between bookstores and digital markets.
The importance in digital of having a specific worldview.
The big advantage that ebooks have over apps.
Who makes money in the app store?
A lot of talk about The Silent History.
In praise of low budget projects, made by small groups of people.
McSweeney’s.
The Pickle Index.
On games not being the only future of digital storytelling. (A future, absolutely, just not the only one.)
If you copy too much from games, you end up competing with games, and they’re generally much better at it.
High production value videos are soooooo expensive.
Pick a genre and stick to it.
Baldur goes on a rant on publishing industry contracts.
On not confusing detail with quality.
To be continued…


May contain swearing.



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