With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
It takes a long time to publish a book.
Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.