I’ve been reading Vin Crosbie’s posts for about a decade on the online-news mailing list, and his blog for several months. He knows publishing in a digital world. Still, he just made a very big public promise to deliver the business plan for the future of publishing.
There is a lucrative business plan for online publishing in this New Medium. I now know what it is, which is something I couldn’t have stated earlier this year. After the New Year, I plan to publish everything that I know about it. There is a official forum I’ve chosen, which has a mid-January deadline and a publication date of Spring 2004. I’m meanwhile going to cease making conference speeches and cogent public comments about online publishing.
He offers this teaser as explanation for why he and his blog will be quiet for the next several weeks. I’ll be listening, but I guess he’s never heard of underpromise and overdeliver. Should we believe the hype? Vin, don’t disappoint us now!