The Father
Primary book and founding narrative property.
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Principal Position / Long Duration
CWADM
A book. A universe. A long-duration position.
Position Thesis
Build the world around work worth returning to.
CWADM is the principal Republic of Holdings position: a narrative property with publishing at its center and reader experience, discovery, media and adjacent systems built around that center.
The objective is not to make every possible product. It is to identify the small number of surrounding systems that increase the durability, reach and depth of the underlying work.
Current Position
What the position contains
The position is larger than a single title but narrower than a generic media strategy.
Reader Experience
Public reading and relationship surfaces around the universe.
FIND
Discovery infrastructure with utility beyond a conventional book page.
The Roads
Affinity-oriented ways into the universe.
Sidewinder
Branching narrative structures where they earn their complexity.
Programming
Voice, audio and video that strengthen the publishing position.
Current Decision
Concentrate first. Extend second.
The surrounding systems are valuable only if they make the principal work easier to encounter, understand, enter or stay with.
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