• “Now that the medium is evaporating, publishers have nothing left to sell. Some seem to think they’re going to sell content—that they were always in the content business, really. But they weren’t, and it’s unclear whether anyone could be.”
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Post-Medium Publishing (via marco)
This article claims magazines don’t sell content, they sell paper. Not true; they sell advertising space. They sell your eyeballs to business. News/content is just the bait for you. Charging you for a newspaper is mostly to convince you it’s worth looking at.
Books — ok, now you’re selling paper.
