This is going to amount, ultimately, to another plug of the Gone Lawn project/website, but it's a very serious question.
I (and all of us at Gone Lawn) want to see the day when the surface Literary Market (Bertelsmann / Random House, Borders, Barnes & Noble) becomes challenged by the virtual, underground democracy of the Internet, and I think it's absolutely possible. There are a couple of essays on the Gone Lawn site (gonelawn.com) that go into it in more depth. I mention this because I want to know what people think about the matter, about the seriousness of the cultural control that Random House possesses over us, the lack of variety and access. (I am an Amazon.com fan, by the way, so I'm not against large corporations in themselves, only ones that are significantly destructive, like the ones mentioned above).
The Long Tail site (longtail.com/) is helpful, too.
The question is: To what degree is the large populace, website to website, able to challenge the surface Market? And how do we do this?
I (and all of us at Gone Lawn) want to see the day when the surface Literary Market (Bertelsmann / Random House, Borders, Barnes & Noble) becomes challenged by the virtual, underground democracy of the Internet, and I think it's absolutely possible. There are a couple of essays on the Gone Lawn site (gonelawn.com) that go into it in more depth. I mention this because I want to know what people think about the matter, about the seriousness of the cultural control that Random House possesses over us, the lack of variety and access. (I am an Amazon.com fan, by the way, so I'm not against large corporations in themselves, only ones that are significantly destructive, like the ones mentioned above).
The Long Tail site (longtail.com/) is helpful, too.
The question is: To what degree is the large populace, website to website, able to challenge the surface Market? And how do we do this?
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