Tag: economics
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Newspapers: Vanishing faster than you think
Philip Meyer, author of The Vanishing Newspaper, in AJR: “The town crier’s audience was limited to the number of people who could be assembled within the range of an unamplified human voice. Printing changed everything. It made the size of the audience theoretically limitless and, by the creation of multiple records, enabled more reliable preservation…
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The Long Tail: The time/money formula of free
Kids tend to have more time than money (hence P2P music sharing); adults tend to have more money than time (hence the iTunes store). The Long Tail: The time/money formula of free