Is it possible for certain industries to restructure, ethos to
rhetoric, to become more functional in the community of industry? Do we want a
community of industry? What is the cost of doing business without maintaining
relationships? Today, new possibilities, based in new ways of doing things, and
new ways people are communicating.
Take the Co-op model. Art, literature, and design might
strive to attain a new business model which anyone, logically would maintain,
can do more good for more people. The Co-Op Business Model permits the growth
of wealth among a group of individuals within a company. Taken from housing
co-operatives of UC Berkeley, the sharing collective of artists, writers,
designers, profit from the mutual effort for the mutual benefit.
Take Fiction as an example. In the novel writing
industry, the business is structured to maximize sales of the product, namely
books. Internet and readers have made digital copies valuable to the tech
organized reader. The industry has suffered since. Now, is the time to
reconsider what art and business can be. Currently, transaction for
transaction, the cost of doing business involves agents, publishers, and
distribution and sales. In a Co-op or Collective, the effort is shared without
outsourcing. An internal editor at the “Co-op publisher” acts as editor in the
Journalistic sense as well. Without the effort of appealing to agents, this
publisher takes submissions and publishes based on genre; vanity or praise. So
sophisticated is the Co-Op/Collective models, the opportunity afforded by the
ethos of equal pay, equal effort, and equal worth in a community of writers who
work, of course at most only the municipal scale.
It is a wonder that among artists, it is so common for
artists to possess the desire to be surrounded by other artists. A natural
community. Co-Operatives and Collectives are not antithetical to profit. And
certainly, neither are artists anymore.
Paying one’s dues, the homage, learning voice, all are
now less important as we enter an age of self. People like themselves and want
to see themselves in pictures, video, and audio. Publishing will be digitized
for most. It is widely becoming a more common means of obtaining information
and entertainment. Subscriptions to the online magazine of links to full scale
novels and other media pertaining to publications of the house.
The opportunity to pay equal wages top to bottom, and
to delegate among a community of artists, all well ascribed to the company
ethos, not as opportunity but as vocation. Hence, the annual contest. Talent is
the scholarship, the internship, the job, your career as an artist. Your
collaborative, your collective, your co-operative.
Welcome others to your world. Welcome work with
purpose. Welcome friends. From “the father of shy culture”, the once BoyDoll.
Brings this Christmas, publishing in a new way.
A small-scale launch, with complete works of the
Bleeding Heart Trilogy, written by the founder.
December 25th,
2017
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