Authoring
Diffuse the whole Work, not loose fragments.
Author your Work once and diffuse it everywhere without it fragmenting. A Work — a book as archetype — is modeled as a coherent authored whole (a Central work with Satellites and Elements) carrying six typed content types; the same source projects to print, digital, web, interactive and an AI-queryable surface (RAG/MCP). Dissemination is an expression of the Work across channels, never a re-authoring per channel — so the Work stays coherent everywhere it appears.
An authored Work lives as source files (Pages, ODT, Markdown). Each medium — print PDF, EPUB, web, interactive, AI-queryable — is produced by a separate ad-hoc pipeline, so the Work is re-cut per channel and drifts: a correction in the book never reaches the web, the glossary diverges between formats, and the same content is maintained N times.
The root cause is that no tool holds the Work as ONE coherent authored whole with a declared expression across channels. Authoring tools target one output; CMSs compose upward from fragments. So coherence — the very thing that makes it a Work and not a pile of pages — is exactly what is lost the moment it is published to more than one medium.
The prize, once inside
When your reason for being is verifiable and not just declared, holding your course stops costing effort.