“ With three million unique visitors a month, Ms. Brown said, The Daily Beast — which marks its first anniversary next month and has not yet turned a profit — would be able to provide a much more powerful marketing machine than typical publishers. The site will provide links to retail sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble to buy the books, although Mr. Steinberger said that in the future, if Daily Beast readers wanted it, the site would consider selling books directly to consumers. He said there were no current plans to do so. “One of the big criticisms that one hears about print books is that by the time they get out it’s too late and who cares,” said Constance Sayre, a principal at Market Partners International, a consultant to publishers. “The only thing I worry about is that everybody’s writing and nobody’s reading. But I think it’s not going to happen if you don’t try it.” Ms. Brown said she was not concerned that readers would feel saturated after reading free articles on The Daily Beast and was confident they would want to pay for additional content. „
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