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Another interesting point. It's possible readers might enjoy the feeling of involvement if there was an opportunity to participate in the pre-publication proofing process. Like beta testers.
It could become a way for writers to leverage social media like musicians often do now.

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True, although not many musicians would be happy for the public to mix the final version of their album :wink:

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Pakehendrix wrote:True, although not many musicians would be happy for the public to mix the final version of their album :wink:
No of course not. But there's a tradition of previewing in theatre, film, television and music, the feedback from which helps form the final version that the public eventually sees.
Beta testing is the same thing. As are social media releases of demos, pre-mix and pre-master versions.

I guess I was thinking of a situation where written works could be proofed over a period of time, by a sort of final beta group of lucky fans... or something. Most word processing apps track changes so there's little risk of nasty surprises unless the writer is lazy like me or excessively drunk.... like all good writers should be. :P

It did just occur to me that giving out an entire manuscript would be foolishly risky. So only allowing an individual participant to have a page or a chapter to analyze at a time would be smarter. A bit like the way the SETI Home project works.

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Does anyone think that Cd's and books will disappear from our shelves?
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frizzleblink wrote:Does anyone think that Cd's and books will disappear from our shelves?
I don't think entirely but moving the bulk of distribution to electronic means has benefits on so many levels :)
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jeremyb wrote:
frizzleblink wrote:Does anyone think that Cd's and books will disappear from our shelves?
I don't think entirely but moving the bulk of distribution to electronic means has benefits on so many levels :)
I agree
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Even an old fart like me has progressed beyond CDs and physical books.

I used to have masses of both and now I don't even have a CD player apart from the ones in our cars and laptops.
My hundreds of books have been onsold or given away now.
I do have almost 20,000 ebooks though. However they take up one 16Gb SD card.

The only real limit on us changing to a total TV/Internet solution is the stupidly high rip off cost of internet access in Aotearoa.
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Rog wrote:Even an old fart like me has progressed beyond CDs and physical books.

I used to have masses of both and now I don't even have a CD player apart from the ones in our cars and laptops.
My hundreds of books have been onsold or given away now.
I do have almost 20,000 ebooks though. However they take up one 16Gb SD card.

The only real limit on us changing to a total TV/Internet solution is the stupidly high rip off cost of internet access in Aotearoa.
You should move to New Zealand then Rog, but internet's pretty pricey here too.
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Where are you rog?
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