How else can I play the subscription system around the fireplace? Is it possible to publish online?

I want to start with the "always" maligned "social interaction" on matters. But before we talk about it, let's get rid of a bad habit: don't let people say "this is not good" and you feel like "I seem to have done something wrong", or when others say "I support this" If you don't have support, you feel that others are saying you are not good.

Most things in the world do not use one size fits all, there are only two options of "good" or "bad". There must be some level of self-identity with your choices. (But don’t use your self-identity to attack others for being different from you.)

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From the point of view of "creation" , such communication and interaction as matter has reached the level of "sitting at the door and chatting with others when you have nothing to do", which is not conducive to "thinking" and "creation". A well-written daily routine can be turned into a very good prose, but a "diary" just "wanting to talk to someone" is not necessarily a "good creation", and this point should not be questioned.

(If you haven't seen the daily dialogue between two teenage boys in "Seto and the Inland Sea", you can look for it. This is a story written in daily dialogue, which is interesting and not boring. The movie is relatively short, you can watch it Look!)

From the perspective of creating a "community platform" , a model like matters that "can warm up" and "meet friends through text" has a cohesive force that is different from other social platforms, and this cohesion force is ordinary words What the platform does not have , we rarely see what kind of intersection between "users and users/authors and authors" can be strung together on other text platforms.

On other platforms, the original friends/readers are not counted. They can connect and "do something together". Maybe they have to reach a certain level of voice before someone may care about you , but matterers don't need how loud you are. People, there will be people talking or interacting with you, which also encourages "socially marginalized people" like me who "believed that no one would read what I wrote ." (I think many, many people really left Facebook, which is serious about "socialization", and came to matter only to find that "something I wrote" was read.)

But when the power of the group is great, there will always be some things that go against the essence of "creation", especially when "words are valuable" on the stage, many people will judge "what kind of words can be valuable" "? And there will be a "what way do I use to make things that have no content at all valuable?" This mode of posting for money will appear.

(Again, take away the bad habit I said at the beginning, don't just feel like "people are saying you are not good." This is just discussing phenomena, not saying things are good, bad or right and wrong. Me too As a kind of people who do odd jobs everywhere to make money, writing is also one of my ways of making money.)

Let’s go back and talk about the “subscription around the fireplace”.

When discussing the matter of "who wants to subscribe to me?", you can recall that before we first entered the matter, many people had a huge impact on "who will read an article on the Internet?" Self-doubt, and I feel that I "must not be good/very bad", how can I write something and so on... As a result, many people have opened a "creation" window in Matters, and even set certain goals, maybe even I have regained my former desire to read or write.

And a large part of the reason for this comes from the difference between Matters and other text platforms: the criticized "social mode". Because of the difference between clapping hands, encouraging each other, and collecting different types of things without classification, everyone will see all the different types of text on the street no matter what. This is an advantage of social behavior. But at the same time, it also brings disadvantages: in addition to deviating from "creation", too close social groups can easily form a kind of "exclusivity", which is often not good for "bringing traffic", and at the same time it will squeeze out some non-interactive ones. user.

Can't such a close social group do something "interesting" in the "subscription around the fireplace" section? A lot of things are "played" to form a state where "no one thought" could be played like this.

For example: is anyone a very early instagram user? (I am. Sorry I hate all acronyms, so I try not to use them as much as possible) Did anyone know when this thing was going to replace Facebook as a popular app in the community at the earliest? That's how the times have evolved. (Does anyone know that instagram is faster than google to find food and attractions now?)

The subscription system I thought of at first was actually just the concept of "online publishing" between "writing articles" and "e-books". This will come later.

Later, I found that the "Room Subscription" linking from the "close social group" of the matter can be used as a kind of "matters journal" publication. Since everyone usually carries each other to create different themes, "subscription around the fireplace" can find a few like-minded people to think about some theme plans and create the concept of "publication".

Of course, the questions of "how to divide the money" and "how to use the account" will arise here, but there are "such like-minded" interactions, and some people have relatively close interactions. (If you go out to find someone to make publications together, you will also encounter funding, cooperation, and division of labor. This is also an attempt!)

Earlier I did the "Book News" thing . It's very suitable for making a fireplace for people to subscribe, and Yiling's book selection is also very suitable. It is very tiring to make a "publication" by one person, but it is actually not difficult to make a lot of people and have a consensus to make them together.

I want to give you some interesting thinking directions: Assuming that today's content is mature and complete, can it really be turned into a publication other than being subscribed in the furnace? Simple typesetting will do, make it into pdf and the like. If the whole project is done very brilliantly, can it be turned into real cash? If you don't have the money to get a paper book, can you turn it into an e-book?

But it must come back to the question of "Who the hell is going to see it?" This is probably the most interesting phenomenon on Matters:

No one will read what I write, I don’t want to write anymore, I’m leaving; I won’t be clapped when I write something, I’m going to take pictures for others, and others will take pictures for me, so that I feel encouraged and can continue to write , or I'll leave; what the hell are those things online, every day a bunch of moms are printing, there is no nutrition and no content, I can't watch it and scream, only the things I write are great, others better go away; online Those solitaires are messy, and the texture of the matters is too different from the beginning, and they will die sooner or later...

I always see these "people who stay here and continue to post/read" showing these unpleasant feelings, but many people still stay in matter: The social atmosphere here is good, many people are encouraging, there are clapping hands and making money Ah ... but what exactly does Matters survive?

Remember I wrote a few articles about "your friends are not your readers" and "how to support creation if readers are less than authors"? (I'm too lazy to look for the link.) Assuming you're always thinking about "who the hell is going to see/order?", then turn around and think, "What can I do for what I want to be seen? I did. What effort?"

It is an effort to write a good work; it is an effort to take a good work and invite others to see it; it is also an effort not to mess up the texture here; it is also an effort not to run away at every turn... and all the continuous publication, Thinking, interacting, and communicating are all opportunities for you to be seen and let people stay here and continue to see you! (What kind of effort did you put in to get others to come to Matters to watch you bluff?)

Finally, let's talk about "online publishing".

If there is no accident, this year, I will organize my portfolio, all the design works for 12 years, and then write down the rules for accepting the case, and start the production of "e-book". (About "self-publishing" and "e-book", you can open a furnace to write precautions.)

"Publishing" is a very professional thing. There are many processes from "writing" to "publishing", such as editing, planning, and final marketing. Many people don't know if they are too humble or too lazy or too ambitious. They always like to say "I write for fun", but they obviously want to "be seen" and "liked", but they never see "" in the text. Attentive" traces.

Some people may have accidentally published a book and become a writer, and then start to become a writer; some people may not be so lucky or so talented, and have spent a lifetime preparing to publish a book.

But in this era of "I am the media", many things do not have such a high threshold , but it does "need to have a little idea". In the future, text will definitely jump from paper books to e-books in the publishing sector. In terms of proportion, e-books may not replace paper books so quickly, and it is very likely that the probability of "reading text" will be diluted in other entertainment. superior.

"Text" is slowly moving in the direction of "not necessarily printed as a book" in the "publishing" section, then "subscription around the fireplace" can be imagined as a possibility of online publishing, and it is more likely to be published than other platforms. The chance to be subscribed because the idea or work is good enough is one of the qualities of matter. (Otherwise, you are not famous to go to the square to write and read, and then do nothing like in matter, see how long it will take you to write before someone sees you?)

I think I'm pulling my thinking a little further. The status of matters at this stage is that it does not have a volume that can increase users and traffic, but there are still many possibilities just because it is not big.

Is there a possibility that any of us, because the work is good enough, pick up the habit of "user pays", establish a "real" "through writing" (not through publishing) and have a regular income, and then go back Walking into publishing, people see "Hey! There is still this option, there is this way to go".

Will it even be possible that we will have a series of works published in books and exhibitions on major e-book platforms? (If the subscription system is mature in the future, different marketing techniques can be used to promote various themes/stoves.) There are so many professional talents on Matters, it is not difficult to ask about publishing, editing, and design. (I am very willing to help everyone's works into e-books. Don't think about the paper part, printing is very expensive, unless you are very rich.)

Don't talk about money, there are many things to play and do. When it comes to money, you will back down and criticize other people's practices.

My case study life has taught me many things: it’s the norm that plans will never keep up with changes; it’s also a fact that you will starve to death if you don’t talk about money. But "no idea" and "don't want to change" and "don't want to try" are the states that really make people have no food to eat.

If you say, "Some people don't think about such a big direction!"

Then I can only tell you that many of my articles are not written for those who "haven't thought about these general directions" . If you are, thank you for reading. Hahahahaha.

Many things don’t have to be thought from only one angle, such as “too close social interaction”, you can think in a forward mode together, or it may just be shouting “We are all great” in front of each other. Warming each other, but nothing changed.

The most interesting thing about the online world is its variability, and the most difficult to control is its variability. You can try to find the most suitable frequency and direction for your rotation among these changes, and then show your most comfortable appearance!

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From 201603 to 201712, I made a small publication at my own expense, a piece of A3 paper, with small book news, articles I wrote, and my photographic works, which were sent to my friends for free. Then there is no money to do it! I often do things that are strange and no one will do, but in the future they often become things that others are doing. For example, now, I can restart this small publication plan, with subscription system, and I can also receive paper copies, how interesting. (But I will not restart XDDDDDD, it is very expensive and tiring, if the subscription system can afford this cost and extra income, I will consider XD)