“Blogs are likely to be better for readers than for capitalists, while I love the medium, I’ve always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.”— Nick Denton, nymag.com
“Book publishing is not a conventional business. It more closely resembles a vocation or an amateur sport in which the primary goal is the activity itself rather than its financial outcome. For owners and editors willing to work for the joy of the task, book publishing in my time has been immensely r…”— Jason Epstein, amazon.com
“The corporate book industry can’t grow at the rate required by publicly held companies, anyway. This is why it is failing. Publishing is a sustainable business, not a growth industry. So it needs to be run by people looking for sustainable projects and careers—not runaway profits.”— Douglas Rushkoff