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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

In the Business of Learning , I compared publishing and learning. Big publishers are having problems as the cost of distribution goes towards zero and as that brings along a ton of competition from the low end. They can't afford to go into depth in niche areas because the costs would be too high for the return.

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Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

Mark Oehlert

So we can move from education to training to means of production for either free or something that is so low cost as compared to what the cost would've been 5 or 10 years ago that the price appears at least to be trending to the free. . Where does that leave you vendors with traditional (and by that I mean old) business models?

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