"In 2000, U.S. consumers bought 785.1 million albums; last year, they bought 588.2 million (a figure that includes both CDs and downloaded albums), according to Nielsen SoundScan." Digging t

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"...many professionals make their money from photographs that are no longer news - the stock images sold by picture libraries. This is the market that the web will devastate." Carriage maker

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"While the process of designing and printing magazines has been revolutionised in a single generation of digitalisation, the financial model behind the making of magazines has barely changed.&quo

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"...looking back with twenty years of hindsight I’m not sure how many science fiction books I would consider classic." Via SF Signal.

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"A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile phone text messages has been published in Finland." Call me a linguistic fascist if you will, but I think this is awful, and I doubt it'l

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"...analysts are theorizing that the DRM-era may actually be winding down in favor of "blanket licensing," which was cast aside just years ago in favor of the "per purchase" a

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"Science teaching is in a dangerous decline that is putting Britain's technological future at risk. Only a complete overhaul of education policy can rescue the situation, a high-powered House of

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"Here's a question to muse about while awaiting the results of Tuesday's election in the US: what happens after the United States is no longer the dominant global power?" Jamais Cascio asks

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"If I am making a plea it is only for science fiction writers (and editors, publishers, critics, readers, the whole damned lot of us) to think more about what we are doing with science fiction, a

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"Now, don't get me wrong. I still like traditional SF — hell, I sometimes even write it! But the underlying assumptions of much of it are so questionable that these days we need to approach them

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"Not even the best TV drama can really compete with a really great work of fiction." Katherine Kerr muses at DeepGenre.

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Video killed the radio star...only it didn't, really. Nor has the web yet killed off the print media, despite trends showing a shift of focus. Forbes.com rejects the hype.

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There's a regular blogstorm starting up on the 'state of SF' issue. Here's Robert J. Sawyer's take. Some opinion from me in the next VCTB post, too

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