13 October 2014
As noted in yesterday's editorial, recent publishing history seems to have been rife with conflict, much of it fomented by digitization: Amazon vs. everyone, print vs. digital, traditional vs. self-publishing, books vs. all other media.
Maybe it was our digital immaturity that led us to see everything as a win/lose, zero-sum game? That led us to believe creative content was like natural selection, the stronger inevitably eliminating the weaker. It was, some of us told ourselves, a revolution.
