Book Blogs and RSS
Now this is a nice Christmas Gift for bibliophiles and RSS Readers (again people not the software applications). It is a book called The Bookaholics’ Guide to Book Blogs: The New Literary Force (Paperback) by by Rebecca Gillieron, Meryl Zegarek and Catheryn Kilgarriff. I got news of this book from the LibrarianInBlack and Laurie the Librarian.
You can order the book at Amazon.com and find a short essay about the book at the site as well.
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.[Source]
The authors of the have been in are book industry veterans: Catheryn Kilgarriff and Rebecca Gillieron are editors at Marion Boyars Publishers while Meryl Zegarek has been a book publicist of many years.
I hope they have this book at our local bookshop. A must have … for me at least.
1 opinion for Book Blogs and RSS
Clair Ching
Dec 17, 2007 at 7:55 pm
This is waay cool! thanks for the link! I haven’t been reading book blogs these days so this is something I really appreciate from you.
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: