Don't call it a comeback - a podcast by Tom Abba and Baldur Bjarnason

Tom was in Montréal the other day for a conference and we recorded a podcast episode reviewing what has happened in the two years that have passed since the last episode.

In this episode we talk about, amongst other things:

• How fine arts and literary fiction projects are generally more successful than software projects as they are more likely to achieve what they aimed to achieve than software.


• The industry cites ‘commercial viability’ without actually looking at what’s commercially viable.


• The gap between what people clearly want and what is being provided.


• How the publishing industry should be doing more experimentation that’s explicitly targeted at the mainstream.


• How next to nothing has changed in two years.


• Value and business models.


• People are hungry for new and interesting things.

Warning! Iffy acoustics and we are well out of practice at this podcast thing.

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