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title: "The GSpot: Richard Nash"
url: "https://josephmatheny.com/2010/04/30/the-gspot-richard-nash/"
language: "en-US"
updated: "2020-05-18T17:07:24+00:00"
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# The GSpot: Richard Nash

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[Joseph Matheny](http://jmatheny.wordpress.com) in conversation with [Richard Nash](http://www.rnash.com/) about publishing/e-publishing past-present-future.

**[Listen to or download show here](https://archive.org/details/gspot_rnash)**
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*Utne Reader* calls Richard Nash “[One of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World](http://www.utne.com/Media/Richard-Nash-Founder-Cursor-Independent-Publishing.aspx).” Mashable.com ranks him him “[The #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing](http://mashable.com/2009/10/22/twitter-publishing/).” He ran [Soft Skull Press](http://www.softskull.com/), now an imprint of [Counterpoint](http://www.counterpointpress.com/), from 2001 to 2007, and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. [Here’s why he left](http://rnash.com/article/the-future-is-now/). The last book he edited at Soft Skull, Lydia Millet’s [Love in Infant Monkeys](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/books/review/Davidson-t.html), was just picked as a Pulitzer finalist.

Nash now runs his own consulting business (details [here](http://rnash.com/article/my-lunch-with-richard/)) and is developing a start-up called [Cursor](http://thinkcursor.com/), a portfolio of niche social publishing communities, one of which will be called [Red Lemonade](https://web.archive.org/web/20200303105251/http://redlemona.de/).

The following is an excerpt of a longer, recorded conversation between [*Cup of TNB* host Joseph Matheny](http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/jmatheny/) and [Richard Nash](http://www.rnash.com/) that occurred on March 23, 2010.

([A text excerpt of this interview ran earlier on The Nervous Breakdown](http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jmatheny/2010/04/richard-nash-on-publishing-past-present-and-future/))

[http://www.rnash.com/](http://www.rnash.com/)
 [http://thinkcursor.com/](http://thinkcursor.com/)
 [http://www.okaneirishfoods.co.uk/id26.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20101205145623/https://www.okaneirishfoods.co.uk/id26.html)