the world turns always on its axis

Technology evolves, times change. We here at ArbeitenZeit Media believe that, from the first storytellers, it's always been the message that holds the power to inform and entertain. The precise means of delivery matter, but maybe not as much as we think. What really matters - once the current business-model ambiguities are dealt with (and that will, admittedly, take some creativity) - is that those who transmit the message, by whatever means, sustain the cultural continuum that binds all of us together.

So, here's to the writers and readers who enter into that cultural collaboration with us, who are the reason for our enterprise. Here's to the retailers who offer our output for sale. Here's to the libraries who make what we do available to those who would otherwise never experience it. Here's to the critics who tell us how well we're doing and why we should do better.

Most of all, here's to us, the publishers, large and small, of whatever vintage, who publish the books, the newspapers and the magazines, who entertain, inform, comfort, challenge, teach, and inspire, who nourish and replenish both hearts and minds. We're more than the sum of our media at any given time, more than lines of code. The reports of our death, as Mark Twain said, are greatly exaggerated.