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Tom Beck
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What's the most interesting way to publish fiction these days? 🤔 Is it still just magazines and paper books? Any ideas?
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Tokenized Human
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How are you defining interesting?
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Tom Beck
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It's new and "fresh." Some ideas: it leverages new technologies, it resituates the relationship between reader and writer, it unlocks new monetization strategies, it creates new genres (or breathes life into stagnant ones). Stuff like that.
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Tokenized Human
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Thanks for clarifying. Not sure if there is any progress at all in that area but I'd definitely like to see some. It's one industry that hasn't really seen much change over the last twenty years or so since ebooks became a thing. I expect whatever it is will eventually be AI driven to the extent that the traditional writer is left out of the equation completely, to be replaced be a prompt driven AI service where the consumer has content essentially tailored to their own specification. For something word driven and different on here, but not exactly what you may be looking for, but interesting nonetheless, have a look at @anky
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Tom Beck
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Yes, it feels like no progress in 25 years. Even the kindle is “anti-tech” in its design and ethos. Contrast with nonfiction which has seen progress in everything I listed and has enjoyed a renaissance over the same time period, first with blogs and now newsletters. Why is that? I suspect it has to do with the web, and specifically the hyperlink: it enhances nonfiction but dampens fiction.
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Tokenized Human
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Maybe that's to do with the fact it can be consumed more quickly, it requires less reader attention, can be skim read or jump read, or dived in and out of, or maybe it's just because the writers themselves are more tech orientated and lean into it more. I guess stuff like paid subscription services exist like Patreon where you can be a member and get exclusive content, but it's not really the same as you've described for fiction. Maybe it's just that the consumers of that content aren't really all that tech savvy either.
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