The Future of Publishing
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A week ago, I wrote a post asking readers what they thought about the future of reading. Today, I’ve come across a website called Scribd, which aims to make writing social. I know what you’re thinking, isn’t that what blogs are for? Well, Scribd is different, as it aims to democratize the publishing space, which allows for sharing on an unprecedented scale. Self-publishing over the Internet is old-hat as sites like Amazon and Lulu have been providing self-publishing platforms for years. However, Scribd is different in that it has a social twist; as the American Historical Association put it, Scribd aims to be “Youtube for Writers.”
What say you? Is the socialization and democratization of writing a good thing? Or does it provide bad writers a playground formerly reserved for the elite?
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wasn’t there a huge uproar when google did this?
Hmmm…I don’t know, but I did find an interesting article on HuffPo that was just written a week ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hugh-mcguire/why-self-publishing-is-me_b_260623.html
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