I gave a presentation at the BookNet Canada Tech Forum, nominally about online communities and books, but I strayed a little, and titled my talk:
LibriVox: Time, Love, Books.
The main ideas were:
1. A publisher’s most important challenge is to acquire the time of their readers – to convince readers to spend more time with their work
2. We show our love of things by talking about them; on the web, this “talk” leaves traces, and links, which form the heirarchy of importance on the web
3. So a publisher’s job is to help the people who love their writers spend more time with them, and leave as many traces of love as possible.
I think there will be a vid of the talk eventually from the kind people ofBookNet, but in the mean time, Mark of index//mb has this little interview of me grappling with the problem of how all this translates into business:
