Actually…

Many of us foresaw the death of the publishing industry a decade and a half ago. An inking business executive who I know well had the revelation in the mid nineties after looking over his son’s shoulder for five minutes while he surfed the Internet. So I was shocked to be compelled by following statement in an article from Clay Shirky on this exhaustively considered subject:

It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

This simple and stark statement convinced me it’s time to leave the funeral*. A more profound epitaph could hardly be written if a more sympathetic one could.

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* Still, go read this fantastic piece. If you aren’t convinced by that single statement, the article will will finish the job.