Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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maybe the answer is just that even though the market has shrunk, it is still a market for the people that need it, and while the old publishers may die, there will be new ones, and they will carry the torch
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philpax
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@hikari I'm curious to see if there will be more attempts to bring textbooks into a new medium to help address this; there have been a few attempts in the maths / graphics worlds (e.g. Interactive Linear Algebra and the Graphics Codex), but authoring seems too difficult as a whole, and it's not clear what form that would take for other fields
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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@philpax feels like there's a gap here. we actually had these magical tools for creating interactive content: "adobe flash", "adobe director" and so on. but they're all functionally dead if not actually literally so.
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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@philpax i assume everyone who takes a serious stab at this ends up inventing their own whole new pipeline, and that's wonderful for them, but it is not conducive to these becoming more common
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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i think we are going to have to make our peace with the fact that the old world is dying. the things we care about must be saved, but the specific institutions that once provided them will not exist in a recognisable form