Well I’m definitely an outsider, an outlier. I hope that will work in my favor. I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to fit into this gargantuan system, and I need to organize my thoughts right here, right now:
- No matter how advanced techy things get–like ebook readers and ipads and shit, people will still rely on human editors to procure their reading material (content). There is no replacement for the work of humans in the publishing world.
- In the current publishing industry, the top down looks like the same old people, practice and politics. They scout for good authors and work out deals to publish books and then sell them to distributors.
- I’m trying to figure out where they’re not looking for talent, and something tells me many of them are bloggers.
- At the same time I see a lot of bloggers, or at least the blogging mentality, focus so much on the money making part and not enough on the publishing part, so you get half-ass blogs trying to make money. Copyblogger as a leading blog pretty much sets this tone. I don’t like it and I think there are many jaded but otherwise interesting and talented bloggers being left out.
- I’m confused about the quantification of content in a blog or web format, and how people pay for that. Right now Amazon charges only $.99 per month to read a particular blog on Kindle, and I don’t know how much the blogger gets from that. 10 months = price of an ebook at $9.99.
- I like what Harper Collins did with Savvy Auntie: found a blog and made it into a book.
- Perhaps Wordful can represent the small but promising/talented blogger. Not sure how I’d setup payment.
- Someone like Shoemoney could use some publishing savvy. He has what could be a good product but it in my opinion it comes out looking like shit.
- Another idea I had — an older one — was to find niches and then build content around the niche. This would involve finding writers, managing them, paying them and overseeing and promoting the site via SEO and social media.
- Also not sure if I want to get into book publishing.
- I do know that my idea needs to be radical and unhindered. I need to see what people want, then build something around that.
- The problem I’m solving: profitable publishing in a digital world.
- As far as the choice between blogs, books, magazines, newspapers and other I prefer to work with blogs and books.
- Perhaps making the blog the next book?