Organic growth due to community spread. my friend is a massive Within Temptation fan. has spent thousands on merch. he became a fan after I lent him a cd i purchased after "I" became a fan after discovering them from hearing one of their songs used in an AMV
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I mean, look, you know what, fuck fiction and entertainment, who the hell cares about wizard books right now Let's talk about journalism, and how a few media corporations are far MORE dominant over the business than before the Internet, as local paper after local paper closes
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The NYT and WSJ are *more* important now than they were 20 years ago, their "mid-tier" competitors dropping like flies And on the bottom tier, sure, you can get more "news" completely for free on Twitter and Facebook than ever before But you get what you pay for
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they make money, they just have to work at it in a different way then before. they have to be their own marketing firm, and have to keep going with their work.
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It’s okay for society to step in & declare some things off limits though. Like if an artist puts a price tag on their work, you should respect it.
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my own half-baked rant on this topic is that copyright/digital publishing is a distraction. what we're seeing is the steady erosion of the boomer economy--namely, a world where the average person *made enough money* to pay for bespoke content like a local newspaper or magazine
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the strong purchasing power of the average person is what made it possible to make a living as a writer (and, you know, to make a living as anything else). the concentration of media is just an instance of the death of the smallest and the triumph of the too-big-fail
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