Anchoring Communities and Trust Markets - Advantages Shift to the Users

Interesting observations for scholarly publishing in Kent Anderson's Scholarly Kitchen post about the shifts in trusted communities and trust markets, most especially for libraries, publishers, and bookstores, and apomediation: "Apomediation is a term meant to convey a shift from intermediation. When we relied on intermediaries, it was partly because resources were scarce — books had to be shelved, preserved, stored, and organized, and people were best-suited to do this. Journals had to be shelved, counted, and organized similarly. Intermediaries were placed between users and scarce information resources to protect the resources and help users navigate a poorly organized, somewhat opaque system.  Today, apomediation is much more common - a recommendation from an acquaintance, a rating/review by someone you don't know, a recommendation from a machine."

Anderson references Nick Bilton's "consistently interesting" book: "I Live in the Future and Here's How It Works"