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Cory Doctorow Calls Death To Music, Movies, Print

Posted by timothy on from the low-hanging-fruit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow depicts an unfortunate near-future for a handful of media industries being transformed or killed by the Internet. Predicting a large-scale transformation of the music, movie, book, and newspaper industry, Doctorow says, 'The Internet chews up media and spits them out again. Sometimes they get more robust. Sometimes they get more profitable. Sometimes they die.' While the Internet has the potential to help the dying book industry, for example, Doctorow predicts the 'imminent collapse' of the American newspaper industry because advertisers are uninterested in spending money on the remaining offline readership, such as senior citizens, who prove less valuable."

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  2. Re:don't forget radio... by David+McBride · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can bash the man if you like, but you'd be more convincing if you laid off the ad hominem attacks and got your facts straight:

    This latest is just the gasp of a flunkie, uneducated has-been science fiction author whose work is so spectacularly bad that he had never had a commercially successful work.

    On the contrary; his latest novel "Little Brother" made the New York Times Bestseller list (Childrens), reaching the #8 spot after 6 weeks. It's had multiple print runs, been published in both the US and the UK, where they've sold well, and has been nominated for and granted a range of literary awards.

    I'd say that qualifies as a commercially successful work by any reasonable definition!

  3. 10 years late? by Sir+Holo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isn't Cory's brilliant insight coming about 10 years late?