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The Dream: A Digital Life and What’s Important

The World's Biggest Toys'R'Us, © thewastedsmile, Creatives Commons Attribution License

I had kind of a silly nightmare, compared to the ones I usually dread. It was more of a realization, kind of like the Obama dream.

This is going to ramble on a bit.

In my dream, I’d driven my car to where Home Depot used to be. Except there was a Toys ‘R Us instead! Bizarre, but I spent some time walking around.

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For Publishers: Lessons from the Tech Industy on Survival

trilobites, © kevinzim, Creative Commons Attribution License

This is not going to be a nice post. Then again, many articles of late all around concerning the publishing industry’s survival haven’t been nice.

I make my meager living in a viciously competitive environment. To put it politely to the Big Publishing Five, for the last several decades you were never in as much danger as the Big Tech companies were in their infancy… and still are.

Not even giants like Microsoft, who strides the tech world as unto a Colossus, are ever truly safe.1

I’ll let that sink in.

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  1. If you think being threatened by Linux is no big deal, just remember: IBM can eat Microsoft for breakfast, and is extremely interested in Linux…. []