Comments on: Stop, You’re Reading Me http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2008/11/30/954/ One more bite of the apple. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:06:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2008/11/30/954/comment-page-1/#comment-143622 David Thayer Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:08:02 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/?p=954#comment-143622 David, ah the middleman! Much maligned in these grim economic times. Your model seems streamlined, of course, and time is money. Well, it is used to be money. David, ah the middleman! Much maligned in these grim economic times. Your model seems streamlined, of course, and time is money. Well, it is used to be money.

]]> By: David I http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2008/11/30/954/comment-page-1/#comment-143616 David I Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:05:22 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/?p=954#comment-143616 I agree that efficiencies could be gained by not having the books read along the way. Even greater efficiency could be gained by shipping the finished books straight to pulping, and thereby bypassing the bookstores and the returns process. But I believe that the process is already random. What you're suggesting really means just cutting out the middlemen. I agree that efficiencies could be gained by not having the books read along the way. Even greater efficiency could be gained by shipping the finished books straight to pulping, and thereby bypassing the bookstores and the returns process.

But I believe that the process is already random. What you’re suggesting really means just cutting out the middlemen.

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