If the publishing market is destined to stay bifurcated, then it is a sad commentary on the descent of the Net down the same well-trodden path that television t

If the publishing market is destined to stay bifurcated, then it is a sad commentary on the descent of the Net down the same well-trodden path that television took to mediocrity and unfulfilled promise. There is a market for such data- and analytically-heavy publishing at the very high end. Actionable-oriented industry-specific analysis selling for $10K USD per year and magnitudes higher are purchased in very small quantities by trading firms, for example. Back in the BBS days, I was hopeful that the then-nascent Net would make it easier and less expensive to share, collate and test ideas and data on a larger scale, and evolve publishing to a more live- and continuously-curated ideas marketplace, so to speak. But I suspect you might be correct, and the ad-driven, entertainment-oriented content will crowd out what I had hoped for in a re-proving of Gresham's law for mass consumption content.