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Friday, September 17, 2004
THE FUTURE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PUBLISHING
"I was sitting in a crowded downtown restaurant during a busy lunch hour," writes Joe Rogers, author of the New York Times' Metropolitan Diary (September 6). "At the table next to me, a bit too close for comfort, were two well-dressed businessmen. I couldn't help overhearing their conversation and gleaned from it that they were social friends..." The part of their conversation that Rogers found noteworthy went something like this [UD is paraphrasing because she doesn't have the rest of the article in front of her -- don't ask why -- too complicated]: "Thanks for the gift you got me!" "You're welcome! ... What did we get you?" "...I don't know..." UD predicts that in a few years similar sorts of conversations will take place between entrepreneurial professors and their readers: "I read your book... " "Thanks. ... What did I write?" "...I don't know." |