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Unlocking the commons
The subscription access business model results in a creator’s dilemma. If their best content is paywalled, how will they demonstrate the value of subscribing to new readers? If their best content is paywalled, subscribers have no way of accurately assessing the quality of a creator’s work.
Luxury Media
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Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
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Information wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive. In an ideal ecosystem, audiences would enjoy the universal accessibility of media, and creators would enjoy more pricing power and stable returns on media which appreciates in value.
Zora • Zora Whitepaper
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that information wants to be free; that attention equals currency; that ubiquity, not rarity, defines value; and that a truly networked society had to be open and unrestricted.
Cory Huff • How to Sell Your Art Online: Live a Successful Creative Life on Your Own Terms
You have to shift cultural norms to get new business models to work where people pay for content.
Tim Hwang • Opinion | How the $500 Billion Attention Industry Really Works
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Journalism is facing both a trust crisis and a sustainability crisis. Membership answers to both.
Ariel Zirulnick • Membership Handbook
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The fundamental idea is revolutionary: communities have always created the best stuff; now, they can finally capture the value, which will crowd in more creation.
Rex Woodbury • Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos
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- Technology is shifting market power away from publications and towards writers**
Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
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