With Betaworks' drive and resources now behind it, I'm confident that Instapaper has a very bright future. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do.

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.