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[John Lazzaro]

> Michael Lyons writes
>
> Perhaps a way around this is a complete revision of the publishing model.

We might also look to Hollywood -- the New York Times movie reviewer does
not exercise prior restraint to prevent "bad" movies from being made or
released. Instead, financial issues -- funding the movie, and distributor
buy-in -- dictates whether a movie gets made and released.

The role of the newspaper reviewer is to judge movies after release -- and
the public is trained to read the opinion of respected reviewers, as part
of the decision-making process of which movie to see on a Friday night.

Ideas of this sort are under active investigation in the Digital Library
community; this abstract gives the flavor of a project here at Berkeley:

http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Seminars/2001/Nov/011105.wilensky.html

                                                                --jl

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