July 6, 2025

Link: Why Content Isn’t King

Seems that The Atlantic has become a must-read for digital content-savvy librarians. Check out this newest post on Netflix:

In fact, the dirty little secret of the media industry is that content aggregators, not content creators, have long been the overwhelming source of value creation. Well before Netflix was founded in 1997, cable channels that did little more than aggregate old movies, cartoons, or television shows boasted profit margins many times greater than those of the movie studios that had produced the creative content.

via Why Content Isn’t King – Magazine – The Atlantic

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After a long career in collection management at Brooklyn Public Library, and a decade as their Director of Collection Development, Barbara Genco joined Library Journal in fall 2009 as Editor, Collection Management. Follow her on Twitter @BarbaraAGenco.