A slow day on Twitter. The Richard Nash quote, I’ve discovered, came from a Publishers Weekly article about his new venture. The full quote is below:

Had I the resources, had I the presence of mind, I would have realized, then and there, that I needed to learn a lot more about what made Soft Skull so valued to its community. But the publishing feedback loop is terrible—and Soft Skull had one of the better ones! In general, publishing Web sites have almost no information about the people who work there and are largely designed to stop people from communicating with us. We often deny the general public access to our trade shows. And in an age when the Internet is fostering more and more direct interaction, our business still relies on an insanely elongated supply chain, dependent on 25-word exchanges, two or three times a year, a one-way street except for when it comes to unsold books.

And now, the rest of the tweets:

• 10 Effective Habits of Public Speakers : http://bit.ly/OsYIY #
• RT @cart: Google Book Settlement Video and Discussion: Publishing Strategy (PersonaNonData); http://bit.ly/5u68t #
• RT @gilbertcruz: Richard Nash: “In general, publishing Web sites… are largely designed to stop people from communicating with us.” #