Publishers like Time Inc. and Condé Nast are reportedly banding together to build an “online newsstand” for digital content, similar to iTunes, which sounds like a fine idea. We hope there’s a Genius component that recommends stuff, like “If You Like Adam Gopnick You Might Also Want to Try Monocle, Adam Thirlwell’s The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, and a Variety of Helpful Indexes and This Sterling Silver Marrow-Scooping Spoon.” [NYT]
