"... publishes bestselling nonfiction stories that are longer than typical magazine articles but shorter than books for digital devices like the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Nook."

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution. Now publishers are in the business not of overcoming scarcity but of manufacturing demand."

"... is named after the domino effect—one powerful idea spreads down the line, pushing from person to person. The Project represents a fundamental shift in the way books (and digital media based on books) have always been published."

"Anyway, my point is that the Big Six's pig-headed insistence on DRM on ebooks is handing Amazon a stick with which to beat them harder."

"Publishers are now in direct competition not just with the Kindle, but with Amazon itself."

'"We've never thought, Who is our demographic and are we reaching our demographic?" Pescovitz says. "I think it would be a mistake for us to do that. Anything that we do, first and foremost, is to please ourselves.'

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"You ruin the fun for surprisingly little money and eventually discover, to your surprise, that whatever shred of credibility you originally brought to your enterprise has disintegrated...". Great post on the re-appropriation of original content by mainstream media sites.

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Interesting observations... a lot of the UK readership are going to be over on US blogs.

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