This is not the future of the book

In this episode we cover a schism in digital media that traditional publishing has unwittingly played into. Baldur explains what it is that makes people the most angry at him. Moonshots versus Infrastructure. Digital media Reaganomics Brute force effort versus building automation Baldur agrees with a Nazi (von Braun). Changes require infrastructure. Trickle-down economics don’t build roads. Without open source and open standards we’d still be stuck in the CD-ROM model. Paradigm clashes are messy. Touchpress. Editions at Play. Creative people doing clever things. Reviewing the story, not the innovation. On not releasing the APIs. Preventing people from copying or building on Edition at Play. The danger of building one-off infrastructure replacements. Disposable scaffolding versus roads and waterworks. Praise for Inkle. Praise for FailBetter/FundBetter. Hybrid models are possible if infrastructure is the end goal. Baldur’s problem with Readium. What does this dichotomy mean f