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My response: Magazines always face a shakeout.
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From my watching-post here in the middle of America, David Brooks seems to have nailed it. Key quote: "And so here we are again. Every new majority overinterprets its mandate. We’ve been here before. We’ll be here again."
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Gist: In the last few years, much in the way it has cultivated its image as a counterintuitive purveyor of Isaac Mizrahi clothes or Michael Graves tea kettles, Target has been building itself into a tastemaker for books.
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Fascinating story about Scott Adam's losing his voice due to a rare condition called spasmodic dysphonia — and his long and challenging journey to find a treatment. (Spoiler: It has a happy ending.)
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Quote: "Not all authors or publishers will choose the dual path of free online and paid print publishing. But for those who have a sense of moral obligation to disseminate their work as broadly as possible, there is good news. The common-sense notion that providing free digital copies of a work decreases its sales is incorrect in some circumstances."
