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Sep 8, 2018

Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group

Interview starts at 5:19 and ends at 36:00

“With respect to blockchain, there’s an opportunity to--I wouldn’t necessarily say disrupt--but to create an alternative to the closed ecosystems that Amazon has with Kindle and that other online platforms have and to provide peer-to-peer trading as well as easier e-commerce networks for publishers. It might be a pipe dream, and it might be that Amazon beats us to the punch and creates something that works on blockchain but is more effective for the consumer.”

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