When I’m using the Internet, I have 25 tabs open, and even if somebody sends me… something interesting, odds are I’ll forget about it, or it’ll get kind of lost in the shuffle. Robin Sloan Read Quote
When you’re making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you – and on your publisher – to make something that’s worth buying in its physical edition. Robin Sloan Read Quote
Good writing is really meaningful, and it’s one of the – it’s still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people’s attention. Robin Sloan Read Quote
A lot of folks focus on using Twitter as a marketing tool. They’ll have a bump that says something like ‘Tweet about the NewTeeVee show! Use the hashtag #newteevee.’ And that’s great – folks should definitely do that. What gets us really excited, though, is when they go an extra step and start to transform tweets into TV content. Robin Sloan Read Quote
It’s not like ‘Print versus Digital – only one will survive.’ We live in a hybrid world now, and I think the near-term future is also hybrid. Robin Sloan Read Quote
I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too. Robin Sloan Read Quote
This is what I think is fun about fiction – you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it. Robin Sloan Read Quote
I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment… so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there’s this peripheral haze. Robin Sloan Read Quote
