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Cheryll Barron
Discussion paper
The keiretsu-cooperative: a model for post-Gutenberg publishing
The paper outlines a suggestion for a profitable, post-Gutenberg publishing model, one that puts bloggers at its centre. It avoids the chief risk of implementing pay-for-content plans, which is reducing site traffic, thereby reducing publishers' attractiveness to advertisers. Communication by printed media has reached its limit as an agent of democratisation. Only a privileged minority...