“Record labels are digging their own grave. They finally have achieved their dream — which is to make money while doing as little work as possible. But the end result is a world in which they add so little value that no successful musician will want them any longer.”
“Twitter wanted all of the credit for the innovation and none of the credit for the impact, when the reality was the other way around. Time after time, they came right up to the limit of acknowledging that, always to turn away at the last moment.”
“Veil’s website hadn’t been saved, and Pictures for Sad Children was hard to track down in its entirety. The last, tangible vestige of the comic came from those who had ordered a copy of the book. … They resolved to share the collection, mailing copies to whoever hadn’t cracked its spine yet.”