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I haven’t had a chance to write about many notable recent articles about the digital distribution scene, but some highlights:

It seems like the idea of digital distribution has enough traction to serve as a seductive cover come-on, but like “10 New Cellulite Cures” or “Are Jen and Brad and Angelina Buddies?”; “Internet for Indies: The Future of Distribution” (HDVideoPro) basically serves to tell us there is a whole lot we don’t know yet.

The New York Times dedicated an issue of its Sunday Magazine to “screens” small and large. A.O. Scott’s article “The Screening of America,” which might be described as “sweetly naive,” praised the emergence of new ways to watch movies while totally ignoring the production mechanism behind the favourites he cites. If the plan is to only watch high-budget studio films, existing work, and YouTube, Tony is definitely in business.

Over at Filmmaker Mag, Editor Scott Macaulay invites five other white guys (distinguished ones) to discuss the emerging/dying state of distribution as we know it. The beginning of that article is here- the basic gist is that things have to go back to being cheap. With the current state of the economy, there’s little choice.