http://oculture.disqus.com/NoneenWed, 19 Aug 2009 12:56:09 -0000http://www.openculture.com/2009/08/the_future_of_content_delivery.html#comment-21003468<p>Blake- Good point! But if we look at the landscape of publishing today, we largely see two models. The standard is to put up a big investment (risk) to print a large number of copies you're hoping to sell, and Print On Demand, which reduces your risk, but raises your cost per book. <br>So compared to these, the solicitation of subscribers looks like a great new movement!<br>On the other hand, you're totally right about nothing new under the sun. <br>To put it in a less French way than Dan did, I guess we're going "Back to the Future!"</p>Seth HarwoodWed, 19 Aug 2009 12:56:09 -0000http://www.openculture.com/2009/08/the_future_of_content_delivery.html#comment-21003467<p>Or as they said during those days: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, kind of, sort of...</p>Open CultureWed, 19 Aug 2009 03:45:41 -0000http://www.openculture.com/2009/08/the_future_of_content_delivery.html#comment-21003466<p>Soliciting subscribers, or "pre-selling" as you call it, is hardly "a model so far ahead of everyone else"; it's the way the publication of many books were funded in the late 17th and 18th century. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).</p>BlakeWed, 19 Aug 2009 02:56:18 -0000