Re: Re: [-empyre-] C. S. Peirce and Code: book

["Friedrich W. Block" <block@brueckner-kuehner.de>]

interesting questions

At 09:44 17.10.05 -0500, you wrote:
> If you accept this thinking, I want to ask you: what does this mean for 
> publishing as an industry and for the writers (artists, scholars, etc ...) 
> seeking publication? Will the stigma against so-called vanity publishing 
> subside or be eradicated? Do readers even care whether a book is 
> self-published or manufactured by big-name operations or is the 
> blogosphere and other new mediums wherein we find virtual story changing 
> these dynamics (codes, semiotics between interactors in an industry, a 
> profession, the act of reading)?

I think this depends on genres, audiences and, first of all, commercial 
interests.
it's probably a difference whether you want to have your academic essay 
been read - or your novel with which you want to earn money. As far as I 
know there is hardly any industry of "text on demand"; Eastgate as a very 
specialized publisher far from industry is selling book-like 
cd-rom-editions, what seems to be a bit against the flux of the digital or 
networked medium. Since Roberto Simanowski asked the users of his 
online-journal "dichtung-digital.com" to pay for reading he had to face a 
strong reduction of traffic.
I believe that in the near future, a self-published book or a literary text 
or platform on the net will have no chance to be reviewed in mass-media 
like printed newspapers and especially tv, which dominate literary economy 
(and being mentioned on tv is - at least in Germany - one of the best 
chances to become a well-known and rich author). And for academic careers 
in the context of increasing national and international concurrence the 
"big names" will probably become even more important. Or what do you think?

f