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You can already do all of that. Epub is just html in a wrapper file. I don't know what a supper node is. Is it anything like a breakfast node or dinner node? Se

You can already do all of that. Epub is just html in a wrapper file. I don't know what a supper node is. Is it anything like a breakfast node or dinner node? Seems like it would be quite messy to mix food with ink. Writing free stuff works for a few people. Most people can't afford it. This means we'd end up with significantly fewer written works, and almost of what remained would be the highly-marketed James Patterson-type formulaic crap that sells well. In fact...James Patterson is the personification of your aggregation formula. He doesn't even write his own books anymore (and hasn't for almost a decade); he looks at trends in reader data and pays other writers to ghost-write his novels for him. Middlemen exist because they provide valuable services: editing/proofreading, printing, distribution, and marketing. And in book publishing, they provide one of the most valuable services of all: discovery based on an author's talent, not their personal marketing abilities.

6510 6y ago
> You can already do all of that. I can already do all that, you can too but everyone should be able to publish without depending on anyone or any corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernode_(networking) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernode_(networking) >Writing free stuff works for a few people. Most people can't afford it. This means we'd end up with significantly fewer written works You cant monitor and control what people read nor should you want to. The desired goal imho is to make available to the reader as much material as possible. Readers have finite funds (if any) You could similarly argue that if some 4% ends up with the writers most can't afford to write. > James Patterson-type formulaic crap... I don't dare have an opinion. If people are buying this its their money. > Middlemen exist because they provide valuable services We buy lots of services. They should ideally never control us. If measuring talent is worth something the author can pay for it. Your suspicion is right tho. Indeed I would prefer to see the entire industry die and switch to a basic income. I get that people think if the music industry dies some will drop their instruments and stop singing. History was the other way around. When people got radios everyone stopped making music themselves. I think we don't even have to bother comparing it to the polished fast food. I liked how Prince put it: Finally people can make music for the sake of making music.

6510 6y ago

> You can already do all of that. I can already do all that, you can too but everyone should be able to publish without depending on anyone or any corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernode_(networking) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernode_(networking) >Writing free stuff works for a few people. Most people can't afford it. This means we'd end up with significantly fewer written works You cant monitor and control what people read nor should you want to. The desired goal imho is to make available to the reader as much material as possible. Readers have finite funds (if any) You could similarly argue that if some 4% ends up with the writers most can't afford to write. > James Patterson-type formulaic crap... I don't dare have an opinion. If people are buying this its their money. > Middlemen exist because they provide valuable services We buy lots of services. They should ideally never control us. If measuring talent is worth something the author can pay for it. Your suspicion is right tho. Indeed I would prefer to see the entire industry die and switch to a basic income. I get that people think if the music industry dies some will drop their instruments and stop singing. History was the other way around. When people got radios everyone stopped making music themselves. I think we don't even have to bother comparing it to the polished fast food. I liked how Prince put it: Finally people can make music for the sake of making music.