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ERA THREE – MARKET-DRIVEN AUTHORITY (2000–PRESENT)

Adam Witty • Authority Marketing: How to Leverage 7 Pillars of Thought Leadership to Make Competition Irrelevant

Sriram Words: "From the Sony hack, Dave Goldberg writes a fascinating, educational memo to Lynton on the state of the music industry. I saved this years ago when the hack was reported on and I'm always struck by how big of a loss Goldberg is to all of tech."

Sriram Krishnan • Dave Goldberg on music Music

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Nick Bilton • Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

Their books represented self-betterment or continuing education delivered to your door, enabling the busy workingman or woman to keep up with the culture of the day as chosen by these companies. The publishers served as curators, as they do today.

Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®

I regret that second step: I want to believe that companies that produce truly great content will have negotiating power with Aggregators, because customers will want what they have to sell. And, in very limited cases, that may be true. Anything beyond the very best of the best, though, risks a Wirecutter-type fate: yes, the investment in content p... See more

Stratechery • Amazon Cuts Affiliate Marketing, Google Versus French Publishers, Streaming Services and Movies

Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons

Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that

I praise its decentralization, and its willingness to empower booksellers at the local stores.

Ted Gioia • What Can We Learn From Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

The more Springwater and Mackenzie thought about it, the more they thought they could build a better way. What they built became an app called Matter, a combination of a read-later app and a discovery engine for great content. Ultimately, Springwater said, it could be even more. "Reading right now is really simple," he said. "It's text on a page. B... See more

David Pierce • Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet

Steve Jobs negotiating ebook pricing

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