imagining what it would be like if we monetized books the way we monetize video games:
free-to-play
downloadable content
“hardcore readers”
triple a books
achievement unlocked
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Massively multiplayer. Cow clicker. Intense paragraph-by-paragraph user testing. What's the "I Love Bees" of books? Book-playing parties. "Want to hang out and read 'The Lord of the Rings' together?"
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2025: “Competitive reading is fun and all, but I’m more of a couch co-op kind of guy.”
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A casual reader can't be expected to lug around a large book. Nor will they pay for books. Instead, we should produce short articles, readable in one sitting, supported by ads. wait this is exactly how people talk about reading
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Newspapers are ruining the attention span of our youth, and all the reporting on war and violence is making them violent.
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Twitch for reading. Also known as loving with a bibliophile.
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…or as we called it BITD, “Elrond and Chill…"
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Save points. Speedruns. New read plus. Procedurally generated contents. Reinforcement learning in story env.
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