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NewBizNews on On the Media

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On the Media’s Bob Garfield interviewed me about the CUNY New Business Models for News Project.

I made one error: the new news organization’s editorial staff after three years is 46; total is 90.

Bob was nice enough to plug my book. Now I’ll plug his, The Chaos Scenario. I just bought a copy. He’s doing lots of neat things publishing it, offering it first on Kindle, offering earlier adopter pricing on the paperback (it increass $1 every Monday), and then coming out with independent distribution in stores. Because he has an nice widget enabling purchase, I’ll embed it here:

9 responses to “NewBizNews on On the Media”

  1. Eric Gauvin Avatar
    Eric Gauvin

    glad everybody is getting plugged…

  2. WhatAboutFree Avatar
    WhatAboutFree

    Why don’t you guys give your books away for FREE?

    I thought this was the link economy?

  3. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Mine has been available for free online since it was published.

  4. Eric Gauvin Avatar
    Eric Gauvin

    That’s technically true, but I doubt anybody has ever read it online. That online version functions more or less as a preview of the real book, which you relentlessly sell, sell, sell.

    You’re not really offering the book online for free. Don’t lie or play us for fools.

  5. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Eric,
    I did lie but not about this. When I said life is too short to deal with trolls, I did mean you.
    Once more and I’ll ban you. When that happens, I erase every comment you’ve ever made.
    You attack for the sake of attacking. That is the definition of a troll. I’ve had it. Get a life. Blog on your own.
    The book is available for free. Hell, man, you’ve put the link in many of your trollish comments yourself.
    Enough.
    If you attack once more and I get rid of you, I’ll consider it a good side-effect of getting cancer.

  6. Eric Gauvin Avatar
    Eric Gauvin

    You obviously have a much higher threshold for hype if you consider the “free” online version of your book languishing in a forgotten corner of the internet as having any bearing on the free content debate.

  7. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Enough, Eric, enough.

  8. Polly Kreisman Avatar
    Polly Kreisman

    hello jeff-

    hope you are feeling good…hope you may remember me…took a class this spring from you @ CUNY and publish the hyperlocal for westchester county new york, theLoop (www.theLoopny.com)

    just want to say i enjoyed this. i thought you both did a great job of distilling a lot of big thinking into a few minutes of radio.

    i am working on creating a network of hyperlocals, and trying to find a way to connect those with discernable voices, rather than aggregators or cookie cutters. . think the alternative press of the 60s/70’s (before we were born :) )i think there are so many true veterans out here that a network of truly journalistically driven “on-line newspapers” with individual personalities could work.

    see you soon.
    polly

  9. Eric Gauvin » Blog Archive » The Goose that Laid the Golden Link (or a wild goose chase for “the link economy”)

    […] Jarvis makes no reference to “the link economy” in his recent book plugging exercise on NPR. His new call-me-crazy-but-I’m-an-optimist canned presentation about platforms and ecosystems sounds exciting but in the end seems a lot like mini DIY newspapers very similar to what we have today in terms of a business model–that is, primarily supported by advertising. https://buzzmachine.com/2009/08/22/newbiznews-on-on-the-media/ […]

  10. Eric Gauvin Avatar
    Eric Gauvin

    Testing… testing… one, two three…