The Long Reader exists not just because creators Beshr Kayali and Mohammad Kayyali think it’s a clever idea — and it is — but because there is a newly awakened appetite for this kind of content. And it shows what could happen if the hunger grows so gnawing and ruthless that it ultimately devours the whole enterprise.

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But that, in some ways, is maybe even more of a nightmare for publishers: the idea that scraping or republishing content, as long it’s in the name of “discovery,” isn’t wrong at all. It’s just a service.