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» SYP Conference: Publishing 2.0

Just spoke at this event and joined a panel answering questions. The theme of the event was “The Reader Revolution”, so, with very limited time to prepare I decided to take the obvious route- that is challenge the very concepts themselves.

So on the one hand we don’t have a revolution, at least not from a publishing perspective, as in fact the ebook process replicates and exists within many existing publishing workflows.

Equally however if there is a revolution it may involve writers as much as readers; in the web ecology the line between the two grows ever more blurred, the threat of dis-intermediation grows and the very role of the writer shifts.

More on this on the digitalist soon, in the meantime thanks to the SYP for a great conference.