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Community-centric publishing?

Good post, and very possibly true.

Publishers are in the process of discovering that we’re in a shift from a product-centric world to a community-centric one. The new challenge arises from the fact that it is simple to pay royalties for sales of a product; it is a lot harder to pay somebody for their contribution to a community.

The author-publisher deal needs tweaking – The Shatzkin Files

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