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Thad McIlroy
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Thad McIlroy writes Future Of Publishing, a personal blog at thefutureofpublishing.com about business and writing. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of a school data API startup, for a post arguing that education companies earn strong revenue selling to schools and districts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
> ...there's a significant number of companies in various niches of education earning great revenues selling to schools and districts. The spending trends in the K-12 space are not positive[1], and while I'm sure there are companies in "various niches of education" with respectable revenue, the bankruptcies of companies like Cengage Learning[2] and School Specialty[3] are hard to ignore. There's a strong argument to…
Comment linking /2013/07/inside-the-cengage-bankruptcy/
on “Clever Gets $10 Million To Provide A Standardized API For School Data”Submitted Amazon’s Kindle Format 8 Snubs the EPUB 3 Party as a story · 3 points
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