
I’m worried what it MEANS is that there is no apparent future for teenagers.
For decades, music gave kids their first sense that something NEW was HAPPENING that they could be part of, and it was exciting to see what would happen NEXThttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1309957632636022785 …
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Just a more extreme version of what happened to tv. Once you go on-demand streaming it is cheaper for everybody to discover music that’s _new to them_ than for musicians to make music that’s new for everybody. Discourse dies because most points were already made when it was new.
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Do we see the same effect with books? Does the back catalog on kindle suppress new writing?
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Books have had a back catalog bias always. But even there I’d guess it’s increased.
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It’s the “back catalog on demand” that I can see suppressing demand for new works. And most all titles are not available on Kindle, so maybe the effect is less.
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They’re available used though. Used books went from 4% to like 25% of the market in the decade after amazon enabled the market. It’s come down a bit since due to worse terms and the best stuff having already been cleared from the market.
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Am I more out of touch than I thought?
What does this MEAN??