Writers

"Publishing" is a word that no longer makes sense. When anyone can create and share anything, anywhere, at any time, and to anyone, what does it mean to publish?

The role of publishing must take on a new one: curation. Curation is the missing piece of the creator economy. Digital platforms have outsourced curation to algorithms, to everyone's detriment. 

We need good curators, and we need platforms that reward curatorial work. Only then can we build a creator economy that isn't just predatory. That doesn't just promote the top one percent of creators. 

Curation is what makes digital platforms worth spending time on.

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The #1 role of traditional publishing remains their ability to scale physical print to meet demands with a major infrastructure when the book is a success. 
The rest is secondary to them. Publishers don’t sell to readers (on the book side)

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Yes… same problem with the use of “writer” which seems to include anyone writing more then 600 words on kindle u.
ironically enough “screenwriters” were never allowed to called themselves “writers” because they didn’t publish books.
I think the failure of trad publishers to transition to direct to consumer and digital has created a vacuum.

You're right.

However, many things are called publishing now, including email newsletters and indie journals that are exclusively online. I think it's worthwhile to untangle these various activities called publishing, and call many of them what they really are: curation.