There’s a perception that book publishing is dying a very slow, sedated, almost benign, almost comfortable kind of euthanization. My job is to be the pragmatic optimist.

1. Editors Beat Robots:
Post-Industrial Publishing
and its Contents
Richard Nash
@r_nash
rnash@rnash.com

2. Editors Eat Robots:
Post-Industrial Publishing
and its Contents
Richard Nash
@r_nash
rnash@rnash.com

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10. A book is more than a verbal
structure or series of verbal
structures; it is the dialogue it
establishes with its reader and the
intonation it imposes upon his
voice and the changing and
durable images it leaves in his
memory. A book is not an isolated
being: it is a relationship, an axis
of innumerable relationships.
—Borges, “A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw”

14. Editors Break Robots

15. Editors Eat Robots

19. Un/Bundled Reading
Un/Bundled Publishing
• New ways to monetize existing
author relationships
• Publishing stories for non-book
publishers, a.k.a. Custom Publishing
• Selling value-add publishing services
to individuals and businesses
• Generating context & narrative from
non-book cultural phenomena
• Reading as a Service

25. Richard Nash
richard@byliner.com
@R_Nash @The Byliner
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