What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane: Fearlessness: “We should learn not only from other content industries, but from the digital support structures that have grown up around them. To take one, the musical ecosystem comprising services such as Last.fm, Hype Machine, Songkick, Soundcloud and Bandcamp has few parallels in literature, as yet. These services surround the artistic work with a visible halo of engagement, recommendation, data generation and visualization.”

James Bridle, discussing how to look at books as not just content, but temporal and social objects too. The same approach can be applied to other areas.