Money? What money?

Some thoughts prompted by Touchpress’s pivot.

• Touchpress, who?
• The core problem with the app stores.
• The difference between bookstores and digital markets.
• The importance in digital of having a specific worldview.
• The big advantage that ebooks have over apps.
• Who makes money in the app store?
• A lot of talk about The Silent History.
• In praise of low budget projects, made by small groups of people.
• McSweeney’s.
• The Pickle Index.
• On games not being the only future of digital storytelling. (A future, absolutely, just not the only one.)
• If you copy too much from games, you end up competing with games, and they’re generally much better at it.
• High production value videos are soooooo expensive.
• Pick a genre and stick to it.
• Baldur goes on a rant on publishing industry contracts.
• On not confusing detail with quality.
• To be continued…

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