Reading list
Shortform reading
This is an incomplete list of the shortform reading (and listening and watching) I’ve been doing lately.
Why Substack shouldn't be the future of online publishing
So that’s the good news: Substack has some high-profile authors and is bringing in more of them, and that’s presumably good for revenue. But how good — enough to make a living on, or enough to satisfy the company’s investors? Those are two very different things.
#independent-media · #publishing · #substack · #venture-capital
It means always questioning. More than that: it means always deeply examining the less visible ideologies that lurk behind the design systems that govern how we live and communicate. For me this also means working with archives as *time machines,* and dialing back through history to see how others have resisted and persisted by making public against the grain, by “performing publishing” in their lives. What can we learn from their ongoing struggles for liberation, through their acts of making public?
#archives · #community · #lgbt · #publishing
Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead
Earlier this week there was finally a hearing in the case brought by the big book publishers to kill off libraries. That, of course, is not how the publishers describe the lawsuit, but it's absolut…