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Web Profits in the Gutter
The New York Times has an article about the web's one true growth industry: spam, fraud and porn. Societal meltdown or flourishing ecosystem? The talking heads debate.
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According to this and this, Gutenberg's second book was the Psalter, a collection of the Psalms of the Old Testament, printed by themselves. So I think you're correct to question the assertion that Gutenberg's second book was a collection of erotica. Besides, it just doesn't make sense when you consider the time and place.
Guns don't kill people -- people kill people.
But the guns seem to help a bit. (apologies to Eddie Izzard)
Posted AC because I'm talking about clients.
The fact that a bunch of Harvard MBA lemmings needed three years and billions of wasted dollars to discover that industry-leading companies don't just pop into existance when the swag's delivered does not mean that all, or even most, mainstream businesses are unsuccessful on the web.
I have a client. She sells, for the purposes of this discussion, widgets. She has a retail widget store, and an online store. In the last two years, her web sales have *dwarfed* her physical store sales, by a factor of 10 or more.
I have fifty clients, all with similar stories, all with varying degrees of success. In the past five years, two of them have gone under. Both of them had dot.com-type business plans: Offer something nobody wants for more money than anyone wants to spend, and make it up on the volume.
The rest are all thriving, by varying definitions of the word 'thriving'.
Me? I work in my bathrobe. I spend time with my wife and my dog. I drink coffee. I'm not a millionaire, but I've got enough work to stay busy. It's not easy, and alot of times it's not even interesting, but it beats pumping gas.
Try 5,750!
Not that the author wasn't doing their homework or anything.