Great interview with Bob Stein, Director of the Instituted for the Future of the Book. Any doubts about the veracity of his title are quickly dispelled once he starts talking. It's great to hear an industry insider -- although I'm sure he's considered an outsider by many -- to be not only aware, but inviting to the inevitable changes hitting the industry.

Interesting story for how a content creator gets a book deal. April Winchell went by the name Helen Killer. She created the demand online through her parody of Etsy. This isn't a first but it just goes to show that Publishers are paying attention to your presence online. Other books that were published this way include Take “This Is Why You’re Fat” (HarperStudio), “Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves” (Three Rivers Press) and “Stuff White People Like,” published by Random House.

Interesting proposal from Bob Garfield's book "Chaos Theory" that content will not be free in the future, but rather use micropayments. Perhaps the most interesting angle to this is that micropayments would likely have a big impact on pirating, as to many people it's simply not worth the hassle.

I've long awaited the emergence of this type of computer. This article gives an interesting perspective on how that product category could be closely tied to the media industry, essentially being the foundation for media subscription models.

George Lois is one of the heavyweights from 60-era advertising. And while there are plenty of great ads during that period, Lois' work often veered off the beaten path, taking on more of a pop art quality. Nothing exemplifies this better than his covers for Esquire magazine. This guy was creating buzz.