Predictable Trends II:
Sort of more of the same
  • There will still be intermediaries in the new environment who
    • facilitate the selecting, coding, designing, enriching, publicizing, and presenting of content,
    • perform functions of finding, identifying, sorting, accessing, archiving, renting, and subscribing of content
  • These intermediary actions will have costs that someone will need to bear
  • If traditional commercial cost recovery models are used, published content will become even more restricted to those who can pay


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