Book about Book Blogs
The link to amazon is here.
Some of you probably know about it as the summary mentions you:
Product Description
As more and more bloggers write about books and with some of their Web sites receiving thousands of hits a day, this is an easy-to-follow guide to the top, book-related blogs.
With the current craze for blogs, the phenomenon of book blogging is of interest from an objective standpoint as well as to those keen to read book reviews. How much influence do these bloggers have? Is there any kind of censorship or quality control? Are booksellers aware of them? Does Oprah Winfrey take note?
Many people develop a real fondness for book bloggers who write reviews for love and not money. Taking in small, quirky Web sites like Book Slut, dovegreyreader, Bluestalking Reader, and MoorishGirl as well as large, well-known sites like salon.com, this book will show readers how to investigate literature from distant lands, to find the sites of authors who are yet to be discovered by the mainstream, and to find the pages of book industry pundits who have opened their daily lives to a wider world. Welcome to the honest world of book blogs.
Catheryn Kilgarriff and Rebecca Gillieron are editors at Marion Boyars Publishers, and Meryl Zegarek is a book publicist of many years standing. All three have seen the book industry from the inside and are happy that blogs are now opening this world up to ordinary readers.
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So what do you think? Anyone read it? Anyone want to?
Some of you probably know about it as the summary mentions you:
Product Description
As more and more bloggers write about books and with some of their Web sites receiving thousands of hits a day, this is an easy-to-follow guide to the top, book-related blogs.
With the current craze for blogs, the phenomenon of book blogging is of interest from an objective standpoint as well as to those keen to read book reviews. How much influence do these bloggers have? Is there any kind of censorship or quality control? Are booksellers aware of them? Does Oprah Winfrey take note?
Many people develop a real fondness for book bloggers who write reviews for love and not money. Taking in small, quirky Web sites like Book Slut, dovegreyreader, Bluestalking Reader, and MoorishGirl as well as large, well-known sites like salon.com, this book will show readers how to investigate literature from distant lands, to find the sites of authors who are yet to be discovered by the mainstream, and to find the pages of book industry pundits who have opened their daily lives to a wider world. Welcome to the honest world of book blogs.
Catheryn Kilgarriff and Rebecca Gillieron are editors at Marion Boyars Publishers, and Meryl Zegarek is a book publicist of many years standing. All three have seen the book industry from the inside and are happy that blogs are now opening this world up to ordinary readers.
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So what do you think? Anyone read it? Anyone want to?
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Bookchronicle on -
I'm hesitant about books like this (and for similar reasons am weary about some of the posts/comments I've seen here): why does someone blog, and particularly blog about books? Hopefully it's because it reflects the blogger's interest and something their passionate about; lately I've been seeing more people blogging for the perks or (in my opinion) overly interested in their blog getting higher ratings and more visits.
Unless it's a book that makes an argument for blog content, I can't really see myself picking it up.
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Permalink Reply by Bermudaonion on -
Does this book recommend blogs? If so, it seems like it would be out of date before it was even published. The blogsphere is ever evolving.
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Permalink Reply by Callista on -
Well I put it on hold at the library so will let you know what i think when I'm done reading it. I don't think it so much recommends blogs as just happens to mention a few of them for the dicussion. I realize the book isn't necessarily saying book blogs are good, but we'll see when I read it.
As for blogging to get higher ratings and such, It's true I want more visitors to my site but I don't have a job and while I don't currently make money off my blog, I wouldn't mind it. I don't think that making money off your blog automatically makes what you say on it not real. (not saying you said that)
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