Comments on: Scarcity vs scale

By: The paywall experiment « electronic museum

The paywall experiment « electronic museum — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:16:46 +0000

[...] has increased a million fold. Like many of my peers, I’ve long been convinced of the value of scale rather than scarcity, but its been a long and often hard sell to many who still believe in traditional models, and we [...]

By: The whole NPG / Wikimedia thing « electronic museum

The whole NPG / Wikimedia thing « electronic museum — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:11:46 +0000

[...] does exposure of hi-res pictures stop people from buying them (Answer: unknown, but possibly not) [...]

By: (Selling) content in a networked age « electronic museum

(Selling) content in a networked age « electronic museum — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:41:36 +0000

[...] experiments in freeing his books, about API’s, about “copywrong“, about value, authority and authenticity. The suggestion that if you free it up you will see more cultural [...]

By: The Long Tail: PBS, Higher Education, and Museums « Tellhistory’s Weblog

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:49:50 +0000

[...] the Electronic Museum blog, Mike Ellis recently wrote: . . . what I am saying is that the historical tendency to be [...]

By: Pirate yourself « electronic museum

Pirate yourself « electronic museum — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:14:53 +0000

[...] Paulo Coelho, well known author of The Alchemist, has taken a novel (ha ha) approach to the “Scarcity vs Scale” discussion. He’s created The Pirate Coelho, a jumping off point to a Box.net storage [...]

By: OCLN | Open content legal news - 25 January 2008

OCLN | Open content legal news - 25 January 2008 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:50:38 +0000

[...] Scarcity vs scale: Some thoughts on business models for museums and online content from electronic museum. Somewhere along the line we’ll understand the importance of embracing rather than denying the proliferation of copying, pasting, borrowing. To get there we need to be better at understanding what value is, and that’s hard. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:53:18 +0000

Hi Mayra

Thanks, and I’ll definitely check out the book – sounds very interesting…

Mike

By: Mayra

Mayra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:53:10 +0000

Hi Mike!
I find your post very interesting, and it resonates with the ideas of an author I’m using for my PhD… Richard A. Lanham. Maybe you’d like to check out his book The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information” ?

Regards from Mexisun.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:02:16 +0000

I'm with Andrew Marr - we need to develop a "musty book smell" device as well...I can feel an idea coming on.. Also just came across this which is kind of interesting, too..

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:02:20 +0000

I agree that the Kindle is ugly. The Sony eBook is much more attractive. I guess that the price of these devices has a lot of scope to fall. I for one would love to have my entire technical library on an eBook, it would take up less space, I would always have everything to hand and it would hopefully be far more searchable. Going forward it will be interesting to see if attitudes on this change. Having looked at a Sony eBook I could certainly read a novel on it and it may be that the convinience of only carrying one thing will eventually overcome our love of physical books.