Money? What money? - a podcast by Tom Abba and Baldur Bjarnason

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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