On Big Fat Books

[timothymayer]

Here's an interesting comment from Paul Grahm:

"I can see the evolution of book publishing in the books on my shelves. Clearly at some point in the 1960s the big publishing houses started to ask: how cheaply can we make books before people refuse to buy them? The answer turned out to be one step short of phonebooks. As long as it isn't floppy, consumers still perceive it as a book."

Read the whole essay here:

paulgraham.com/publishing.html