Quote, unquote: Paying the digital piper

“If it turns out this has all been oversold and that there has been this immense waste of money chasing the digital dream, there’s going to be a piper to be paid.”

- John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine, on a recent panel discussion called "Digital or Bust: The future of magazines", hosted by the Canadian Journalism Foundation. (You may wish to read some of the other highlights published by the Ryerson Review of Journalism and watch the livestream.)