"Digital technology is a threat to any scarcity-based business model. It not only reduces distribution cost, but creation cost as well. Expensive sound and movie studios get reduced to a software package and PC. The end result is a lot of junk with the occasional gem. That is the real threat to the status quo."

--tom schmidt of tomschmidt.com

 

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Back cover top photo credits, L to R: Newtron Foto, Michael Dean, Michael Dean, Laura Sensabaugh, Aaron Jacobs. Author photo of Michael Dean by Nick Plotquin.

Photo on page 403 by Laura Sensabaugh.

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