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Robin SloanDec 8, 20152 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

9: That Oracular Feeling

One thing I learned from my OmniBlarp years is that there are some seriously literary minds lurking in those open-plan offices. (By that, I mean both “people who…

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Robin SloanDec 7, 20152 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Craig Mod

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3: Opportunity Cost

Craig, you ask:

Is The Pickle Index app a book? What makes it more bookish than gameish?

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Robin SloanDec 8, 20152 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Eli Horowitz

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7: Recruitment

Russell, Eli, I have to say: more than anything else, reading your comments makes me feel lucky, in an almost giddy, can-you-believe-it, we-won-the-lottery sort of way—the payout in this…

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Robin Sloan in The MessageNov 30, 20152 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

1: Opening Salvo

Okay, Craig, I know you’re critical of the arrested state of ebooks today. For my part, I’m more… curious. It’s clear to me that, for all their commercial success, we don’t know what…

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Eli HorowitzDec 8, 20151 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Robin Sloan

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8: Blarp

OmniBlarp never called! The algorithms must have revealed my inherent unprofitability. (Though I do love a free cafeteria…) Robin, what have you taken from those Blarpy experiences, both positive…

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Russell QuinnDec 9, 20152 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Craig Mod

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11: The Left-on-the-Floor Weirdness

We went through so many jumping-off points for The Pickle Index. Because there were no definitive time constraints and no looming investors or CEOs, we…

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Robin SloanDec 10, 20152 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Eli Horowitz

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

13: At This Moment

I think one of the impedances Eli’s talking about is the lack of “critical infrastructure,” for lack of a nicer phrase, around app-books. There are sections and whole sites devoted…

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Craig Mod in The MessageDec 7, 20153 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Russell Quinn

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

5: Self Selection & The Jaws of Venture Valley

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Craig Mod in The MessageDec 7, 20154 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Robin Sloan

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2: Blank Slates!

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Eli HorowitzDec 7, 20154 min read

The Pickle: A Conversation About Making Digital Books

Craig Mod

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6: The Many Futures of Storytelling

I agree with Robin that plenty of people are capable of these projects. And I agree with Craig that there’s a self-selecting element involved, a certain…

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