The Souvenir Economy
Collectors Are The New Consumers
Godin is the master at making the complicated simple. Attention anyone working in a field where your product can be digitized (think books, music, film, photography, etc), please have a read and substitute your field for books/publishing:
Books are souvenirs that hold ideas. Ideas are free. If no one knows about your idea, you fail. If your idea doesn’t spread, you fail. If your idea spreads but no one wants to own the souvenir edition, you fail.
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No one is going to read Potter online, even if it’s free. Holding and owning the book, remembering when and how you got it… that’s what you’re paying for. Books are great at holding memories. They’re lousy at keeping secrets.
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Book publishers don’t make authors successful (clarification: 175,000 new authors a year, 300 become successful because of publishers). Authors make themselves successful by earning the privilege of having a platform, by creating ideas that spread, and yes, by building a tribe. (Source 1, 2)
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HER NATURE HIS NURTURE 
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