Clay Shirky: The old model’s broken – don’t try to replace it
March 16th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Journalism, Online Journalism
“‘If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?’ To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke,” writes Shirky.
The problem that publishing fixed – reducing the cost and difficulty of making information available to the public – has stopped being a problem because of the internet, he adds. As such it’s becoming less relevant to talk about ‘a publishing industry’.
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