QotD: The Publishing Industry

Publishing is such a stupid, stupid business. Not the people in publishing; they're smart and funny and a pleasure to be around. But the business itself — it's like designing elephants that give birth to small cars. No one knows quite how to go about it, but when they go to the zoo and see elephants and walk down the street and see small cars, they figure they must be doing something right.) (I have no idea if that makes sense, but it's entirely accurate.)

James Lileks, The Bleat, 2006-03-07