Last week, as an activity during the SSP conference, I participated in the Arizona State University Book Sprint to develop a text on the future of scholarly publishing. My contribution to the book sprint was fine. It wasn’t great. It was probably as much as one can expect from 35 minutes of trying to get thoughts down on “paper.” Even though my piece was edited a bit and compiled into a larger whole, it didn’t meet my hopes for contributing to a book — but perhaps that isn’t the point of a book sprint. When I talked about the project with the organizers, they said the book would be published online, but it wasn’t likely to find a publisher and move to print. I asked, why not? They could post it on one of any number of print-on-demand sites and make it available. You don’t need a publisher these days to produce a book. Isn’t that the point of a book sprint?