[elmin]

He's a writer. He used this situation to write an essay examining the literary industry. Like all good writing, there are many valuable things which could be taken from his (well executed) writing. Personally, I found some interesting parallels in how the venture capital industry works, and it helped me to conceptialize how those concepts extent into other fields.

It was written as a blog post because we were the true audience, not Alan.

[mcguire]

Examining the literary industry? I thought he was plugging his friends' books.

[hellameta]

successful then, i take it?