135 Words You Could Have Said Better Yourself

Back story: "Called Voice, [Hyperion's new] imprint [. . . ] will be just one of a number of new imprints aimed at female readers[. . . .] Amanda Urban, Ms. Bennetts’s agent, used the model of women’s magazines to suggest the imprint could take off. 'Those magazines have to sell a hell of a lot more copies than book publishers do to exist, so clearly those markets exist,' Ms. Urban said." (via the Times)

I hope I'm not about to Gladwell all over on myself, but someone should tell Amanda Urban (who I realize is an agent so it's partly excusable that she blurted this out) that when it cums (read on: that will seem even more juvenile in a few seconds) to magazines, chicks are like dudes: They don't buy them for the articles either.