Publishing

the answer for publishers in the age of AI is no different than it was in the age of Aggregators: build a direct connection with readers. This, by extension, means business models that maximize revenue per user, which is to say subscriptions (the business model that undergirds this site, and an increasing number of others).

What I think is... See more

If there’s one thing that I really want to get across here is that the book is only a success because people want to read it. As I said before, the majority of non-fiction writing is just way too long — I’ve read so many books where the author took an interesting idea, and made it tedious by repeating the same point over and over again, or by... See more