This is not the future of the book

In this episode we cover conferences, production systems, W.E. Deming, David Pye, and more We start off by criticising the idea that conferences are educational. Baldur refers to a two year old blog post he wrote about conferences on his old (now defunct) blog. Baldur goes off on one talking about David Pye, workmanship of risk and certainty, and, his current fav, W.E. Deming. The ebook has been designed to match a pre-existing production system, which prevents innovation. Everything gets compared to muffins and/or beef. Books as furniture versus books as media. Some thoughts on how new forms interact with the old (partial displacement). The value of print. Will print and digital diverge? Two different use cases. Is the Kindle’s lack of book design features intentional? Baldur thinks so. His theory is that Amazon wants a more modular publishing industry. Can ebooks withstand competition from other digital media? Baldur airs the idea of audience aggregators. Writing as a (very bad) career c