tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post2080219578101849685..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Anyone For Serials? by Debbie BennettKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-13913714091637424372021-10-06T20:11:48.184+01:002021-10-06T20:11:48.184+01:00Good God. Just when I think it can't possibly ...Good God. Just when I think it can't possibly get any worse! Thank you, Debbie, for the brutally harsh but necessary light.Reb MacRathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645014425062542505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-70953872930469845102021-10-06T18:08:41.873+01:002021-10-06T18:08:41.873+01:00The medium affects the length of the message. The...The medium affects the length of the message. The Bible's books were scrolls of a finite length, the little numbered verses were a precursor of a table of contents or to push the idea further, Google's search engine. Physical space on physical paper (in other words, word count) was and is how magazines and newspapers deal with "grey space" - the "content" that writers labour to produce. Television was the prisoner of the 23 minute half hour or the 55 minute hour so long as programs ran between the "top and the bottom of the clock" so that corporations could purchase time for their advertisements. Then came YouTube, and What'sAp and streaming and self-publishing and Amazon'sr need to extract as much as they can from the relationship between "content providers" or authors and "consumers" or readers. Notice that from the scrolls of scribes, through the printers of books and magazines to the electronic FAANGS that chew up words and turn them into money, what is being said is entirely irrelevant. There is one thin strand of humanity in all of this, and that's the desire to connect with another human being who is not immediately present, and to do so not exclusively to fleece them of as much of their cash as is possible. Your association is a guerrilla squad of the imagination striving to turn the technology to a human and humane use. And thank you, Debbie, for your useful survey of who's out there trying to exploit your (and my) writing.<br />Seymour Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10119274592473967701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-38881274902032680612021-10-06T11:51:33.880+01:002021-10-06T11:51:33.880+01:00Fascinating Debbie. I love the idea of serialisati...Fascinating Debbie. I love the idea of serialisation, especially those of Dickens and early crime writing like Conan Doyle. The thought of all those readers waiting for the next instalment is breathtaking. I haven't ever got involved with the modern serialisation that you go into in such brilliant detail, but am open to offers for my living autobiography blogs...Peter Leylandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07717370262319438102noreply@blogger.com