eBook Paths Converge

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March 4, 2009 | 1 book mentioned 13

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coverWhen Amazon unveiled its new Kindle recently, I wrote about the twin paths that ebooks seemed to be taking as they gained market acceptance. On Amazon’s path, they would be tethered to the Kindle, while on the Google path, ebooks would be read on iphones and any other similar devices, whether on applications devised by Google or by independent ebook application developers.

With the announcement this week, however, that Amazon has created its own Kindle application for the iPhone, the online book giant is clearly hedging its bets, while offering the free iPhone app as a taste of what Amazon can offer in the hopes that readers will graduate to a Kindle.

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Revisiting a Literary Throwdown: Zombie Books for Free

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July 27, 2009 | 1 book mentioned 1 4 min read

It was a battle between an evangelizing visionary and a sage defender of the past, perhaps the first big tussle in the great sorting out of publishing’s new look in the digital age.This was 2006, when Wired Magazine technology evangelist Kevin Kelly wrote about the helter skelter future of books in the digital age. In the New York Times Magazine, Kelly looked at then still nascent book scanning efforts, and extrapolated a future that sent a shiver through writers, editors, publishers, and many readers:Turning inked letters into electronic dots that can be read on a screen is simply the first essential step in creating this new library. The real magic will come in the second act, as each word in each book is cross-linked, clustered, cited, extracted, indexed, analyzed, annotated, remixed, reassembled and woven deeper into the culture than ever before. In the new world of books, every bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages.Later he added:[Authors] can sell performances, access to the creator, personalization, add-on information, the scarcity of attention (via ads), sponsorship, periodic subscriptions – in short, all the many values that cannot be copied. The cheap copy becomes the “discovery tool” that markets these other intangible valuables.At the annual Book Expo, keynote speaker John Updike responded, heaping scorn: The economic repercussions of this paradise of freely flowing snippets are touched on with a beguiling offhandedness, as a matter of course, a matter of an inexorable Marxist unfolding.Everyone reveled in the literary throwdown at the time (Gawker called it a Crossover Nerdfight). There was no “winner,” however, and neither Kelly nor Updike was proven right, but there are some interesting new developments to contemplate.When Kelly wrote of “remixed” books, many were aghast, envisioning zombified, soulless collages, based on the desecrated works that had been co-opted for profit. They may have been right about the zombie part: At least one book remix has caused quite a stir this year. According to Publishers Weekly, there are “more than 600,000 copies in print of… Jane Austen mashup, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” A graphic novel version is in the works, as is a sequel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Even though this recent example looms large, when you start thinking about it there is a rich history of literary remixes. At the Vromans Bookstore Blog, Patrick Brown recently compiled a thorough exploration of the topic in response to J.D. Salinger’s lawsuit over an unauthorized sequel to his novel The Catcher in the Rye. Though that remix is not looking particularly auspicious, Patrick notes the many venerable and successful remixes that have come before it, from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked to a pair of recent books by Maile Meloy. Brown doesn’t mention it, but you can even go all the way back to the “first” novel, and look at Don Quixote’s second part as an inspired calling out of unauthorized “copycat” versions of the book. It’s entirely plausible to make the case that literary history is in many ways a history of literary “remixes,” and, as Kelly has suggested, current, ever-stricter copyright regimes are an artificial impediment to this free flow of ideas.Returning to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, silly as it may be, one wonders if the book’s success doesn’t prove there is an appetite – in our heavily remixed, mashed up culture – for freer rein to be afforded writers who want to experiment in this vein. It’s also clear that the public domain offers an unending font of material for those inclined to use it (for a more highbrow example, think of the relationship between Tom Stoppard and Shakespeare). Meanwhile, the Salinger case would seem to indicate that when it comes to books under copyright and the cross-linking, clustering, and reassembling that Kelly prophesied, we are still very much at the whim of the copyright holder.Kelly’s other point – that of a new business model for writers that relies not on selling the book but on using the book to sell “access” to the writer, has been taken up enthusiastically by another Wired guy, Chris Anderson, who has written an entire book on this topic, Free. Anderson is “selling” (read: giving away) the book under this model and his ideas have caused media types quite a bit of heartburn.Interestingly, the backlash to Anderson’s book seems to be resonating (to me, anyway) much more than the book itself. The unfortunate revelation that Anderson had lifted substantial passages for the book from Wikipedia suggests that in a world where writers don’t get paid for writing and information wants to be free, the writing itself is almost beside the point as compared to the ancillary, profit-making schemes that can surround the “author as brand” idea. This criticism would only seem to be confirmed by Anderson’s explanation that there was an oversight in citing the copied passages properly.With a new novel coming soon from our greatest literary recluse, I wonder too whether a flourishing of the idea that authors make money from selling “access” and not books would mean that we could never have another Pynchon or McCarthy or DeLillo whose works alone tower above any notion that they might experiment with alternative revenue models.In the end, there are some elements out of the Kelly/Anderson view of the future of publishing that remain compelling. The remixed book is an important idea that need not be villainized or trivialized, particularly as digitization provides new opportunities for experimentation. The notion of “free,” meanwhile, seems far more potentially damaging in that whole swathes of literary culture are not particularly compatible with the “authors selling access” model. However, if you believe that good writing is always worth something to somebody, you don’t have much to worry about.

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Emptying the Shelves; Filling Up the Hard Drive

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July 2, 2007 | 1 book mentioned 2

In a short piece at silicon.com “futurist” Peter Cochrane talks about a potential business idea that I’m surprised doesn’t already exist: digitizing personal book collections. As I’ve said in the past, I support the various book digitization efforts from Google and others for these projects’ potential to make the sharing of knowledge easier, not because I want to read all my books (for free or otherwise) from my computer. However, I am intrigued by the option of digitizing at least some of the books I own – perhaps books I’ve read and don’t intend to read in full again. It would be nice to have searchable, digital copies of these books to refer back to, but there are some books that I could never trade in for digital doppelgangers.

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13 comments:

  1. *shudder* eBooks give me the willies. Not because I'm technologically slow or anything, but because I really, really love BOOKS. Paper books, bound books that I can touch, smell feel. Ok, sounding crazy now, but it's true. I'm just so afraid that things like Kindle are going to slowly make books obsolete.

    I've tried reading ebooks on my computer before, and even downloaded one on my iPod, but it hurt my eyes. I'm thinking now of even joining a rental service like BookSwim (a Netflix-type book service) that will just send me my books via mail that I can choose online. I've joined book groups that also share, trade, or sell at realllly low prices.

    I think if we share more services like these (swapping and rental, etc.) for economical and environmental purposes, we can achieve the same goal as we were trying to with these other devices. Just my two cents.

  2. I think books as objects will never die, much as records won't, though they may become luxury items. I love books, too, the smell of them especially, and the way stacks of them form a wonderful, relaxing atmosphere. But my shoulders can't take the weight of them, and my apartment doesn't have space for them, and the public library can't stock all the ones I want. I have been dreaming since CHILDHOOD of a lightweight, portable, electronic book (though back then, I just thought of it as "magic" rather than electronic). As soon as "they" form a big enough catalogue of books to go on these devices, I will run out as fast as I can and buy one (if I can afford it).

  3. To the comments that "reading e-books on computers hurts my eyes", I'd be curious to know what such people's responses to actually USING Kindle are like, given that Kindle is explicitly NOT supposed to be like reading on a computer screen (in terms of eye strain).

  4. The whole point of the Kindle is that it does not hurt your eyes. There is no backlighting, and just like the paper version, books can be read outside in full sunlight. It does require a lamp to read a Kindle in the dark, just like the paper version.

    What are the advantages?
    Change the font size for your own comfort level.
    Keyword search for passages in one book, or your entire library.
    Bookmark pages and passages of interest.
    Highlight and save passages into files transferable to your PC.
    An entire library at your fingertips, anywhere you go.
    Preview any book you're interested before buying by downloading the first chapter.

    The list is pretty endless.

  5. When I opened up my new Kindle, there was a piece of plastic covering the screen with instructions for "getting started." I removed the plastic and realized that these instructions were actually displayed on the screen. It isn't backlit, so it feels exactly like reading a book. And you can increase the font size as you see fit.

    I was loathe to get rid of vinyl and cds, as I had nostalgic feelings for them. But I eventually made the switch to mp3. This is easier for me. I downloaded Proust and read from it one-handed on the subway. That is a revelation.

  6. E-books just get us closer to having it all. I still have a stack of 6 esoteric books next to my kindle.

    The kindle is perfect for downloading history and non-fiction texts, right as I need them, and for new fiction fixes, too. It's as comfortable to read as a book, and I can store my notes just with a few clicks, rather than using a post-it flag and typing up things later.

    I've already (in a day and a half) used the iphone app to literally read 100 pages while working out and waiting for my wife.

    And I'm not even what I'd consider to be a serious reader.

    The only downside is that my "reading deficit" is reduced and I can't use that joke as much anymore.

  7. I love books, and have spent a good deal of time over the years at great libraries in the United States and Europe doing research that has always required using original volumes, some published in very limited numbers centuries ago. Handling beautiful rare books is a wonderful experience, and cannot be replicated by the Kindle or any other machine.

    But I still applaud the new technology. The digital revolution is bringing an almost infinite amount of printed matter within the reach of millions who lacked the time, resources, or academic connections to gain access to specialized collections. It is keeping a vast amount of literature available that cash-strapped libraries can't buy or afford to keep.

  8. I love books (physical) and can't see them disappearing any time soon. But, I have to say, I just got a new kindle recently and love it.

    It's not like reading a computer screen AT ALL. The epaper feels so much like reading an actual paper page I find myself trying to physically turn the page sometimes (instead of pushing the button).

    There are some changes I'd love to see (bigger screen.. I want to read more before I have to change the page, better navigation, more books and better translation to epaper, etc), but it's working for me.

  9. Obviously, there are a ton of advantages, one of which is getting a book delivered to your door you see within ten seconds of deciding on it.

    But so far, I won't be buying Kindle. First, the device is too expensive. If I read twnety books on Kindle, I have to factor in the cost of the device on each book.

    Second, the lists I've seen of available books skew towards the mainstream, and away from the kinds of off-beat or academic things I generally want.

    Third, a LOT of those things they have are actually priced far above the $9.99 they mention in their public relations. Since the number of books printed has no relation to the marginal cost of the book, these prices would have to come down before I decide to retire my beautiful book shelves.

  11. I love collecting old first edition books. That said, Kindle is a godsend if your travel a lot. The screen is very easy on the eyes, the built-in dictionary is incredibly convenient, and you can read with one had.

    By the way, you can download a TON of free books for your Kindle here: http://manybooks.net/

  12. I've owned a Kindle since the fall and I love it. And this is coming from a person who owns thousands of books. The Kindle has allowed me to continue my book habit without spending as much money and without stacks of books continuing to pile up around my house. And for everyone who think they'll miss books … they won't. It's like any other story … you get lost in the book and you don't realize you're reading it on a device. The Kindle has revolutionized reading for me.

  13. I am returning my kindle. The text, for me, is actually _harder_ to read than the text on my computer screen. The kindle screen is light gray with very, very dark gray letters. It is no where near close to black on white.

    Also, while you can get some newspapers and magazines on Kindle, the selection is thin – no Economist, or Harpers for example.

    The dictionary built into kindle is a joke. I tried to look up the word "anagogical" and it didn't have an entry.

    Finally, while many books are $10, I looked at one book that I wanted and it was $16.50 whereas the hard copy price (with free shipping) was $19.99. And remember, you can't sell or give away your kindle books, you only license them. So that 19.99 book would probably actually only cost me $11 or 12 if I resold it.

    So, I'll wait for Kindle III and give that one a try.

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No More Books in School

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July 31, 2006 | 1 book mentioned 1

Several schools will be getting rid of books. It’s not as bad as it sounds though. Pearson a company that publishes educational materials (and owns Penguin, incidentally) has been promoting a plan to replace textbooks with digital materials. The company was able to convince California to try it out, disclosing “on Monday with its half-year results that about half the state’s elementary school students will learn about the American Revolutionary War and Thomas Jefferson using an interactive computer program,” according to Reuters. Pearson is hoping to expand the program to more states and more subjects.It’s an interesting idea. On the one hand, computer programs probably have the ability to provide a very rich learning experience, especially when compared to some of the unimaginative textbooks that kids are subjected to. It is also probably cheaper than providing textbooks. On the other hand, I have to wonder what might happen if books were eliminated from the learning process. What will kids think of books when it is no longer necessary to carry them around all day. I suspect that books would come to be regarded as even more archaic than they are today. Thoughts?

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The Post-Kindle World

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August 27, 2009 | 1 book mentioned 4 2 min read

Today represented some kind of personal tipping point. As if by prearrangement – or super-stealthy guerilla marketing plan? – the Kindle was everywhere I went.

First: a faculty meeting. More than one colleague praising the seductions of the e-Reader, as opposed to the good old book. Except who am I kidding? They didn’t use the term e-Reader. They used the term Kindle.

Then: the subway. I fell into the pleasurable habit of scanning the titles being read by my fellow travelers.

The Economist.
The New Yorker.
Last Evenings on Earth.
Kindle.
Something in Chinese.
The Raw Shark Texts.
Another Kindle.
Lush Life.
Something by Donna Leon.
Something by Daniel Silva.
Something by Stephen L. Carter.
Yup: Kindle #3.

(The woman reading Bolaño switched halfway through my ride to a Kindle, on which she may or may not have continued reading Bolaño . I’m not making this up.)

Finally: Bryant Park. Right behind the New York Public Library. Summer Associates getting their drink on. Kindle. Abandoned newspaper. Coddled Kindle. Homeless man with obscenity scrawled on jacket. Kindle in handy Kindle carrier. Outdoor library. Outdoor Kindle.

I began to imagine a day where outdoor libraries won’t exist. Nor will my beloved newsstands (already struggling with cigarettes at $10 a pack). Indoor libraries will struggle even harder than they already do to justify their existence; everyone will be carrying her own. Well, everyone but the guy with the obscenity scrawled on his jacket. And Nosy Parkers such as myself will be unable to tell what anyone’s reading on mass transit. Except that they’re all reading on e-Readers.

This day is doubtless drawing ever closer, but as a lover of newsstands, libraries, and ubiquitous dustjackets (remember, MTA riders, the month when everyone was reading Absurdistan? Remember the autumn of Oscar Wao?), I realized today that I’m not looking forward to it. Nor do I believe my life will be improved when putting down The Magic Mountain to check TMZ.com is as simple as clicking a button. Which is to say: I won’t make it past page 2 of The Magic Mountain. And also: I believe reading The Magic Mountain will improve my life. But the Kindle is just a tool! my colleagues insist. I want to remind them: when you’re carrying a hammer, everything starts to look like a Kindle. Er…nail.

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HarperCollins unveils first online book

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February 6, 2006 | 1 book mentioned

In December, I wrote about HarperCollins’ plan to host digitized copies of their books on their own Web site rather than make them available to Google’s book search. Now the AP is reporting that HarperCollins has unleashed its first offering in this format, Go It Alone, a business book by Bruce Judson. The book is available, in its entirety, at Judson’s Web site. As Google does with its book search, HarperCollins has surrounded the book with contextual ads and provided a link to buy the book. The article points out the supposed irony of using Google ads, but I see Yahoo ads in there too and anyway, HarperCollins isn’t trying to screw over Google, they’re trying to maintain control over the process. HarperCollins has mostly gotten good reviews for their efforts primarily because they’re not using any sort of Digital Rights Management (DRM) to “protect” their intellectual property. To some, this approach is nothing new. As is noted in the article, marketing guru Seth Godin and science fiction author Cory Doctorow (to give two examples), have both made their books available in this way. The news here is that a major publisher is doing it.Based on this article, though, HarperCollins doesn’t seem to understand that by allowing easy, free access to the book, they are, in effect, using the book as marketing for itself in much the same way that one can flip through a book at bookstore before buying. Instead they view the ads displayed next to the book’s pages as a “new revenue stream.” That’s why you shouldn’t expect to see any fiction as a part of this program. According to Brian Murray, group president of HarperCollins, “I don’t think advertisers are clamoring to place ads around literary fiction.” Hence, no literary fiction.

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Call Me Twitterer: Literary Twitter’s First Tweets

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Twitter had its big moment last week, but unlike so many other technology start-ups in the seeming parade of millionaire-makers over the last two decades (with the obvious exception of Amazon.com), Twitter has developed a special following in the literary community, from high-brow to low. Perhaps that’s not surprising. Writers revel in words, and Twitter, nearly alone among hot technology start-ups, is mostly about words, crafting them to meet the medium’s peculiar restraints and sending them out into the world to be engaged with or ignored. Twitter is like some atomized version of the writer’s process. With Twitter, ideas go out piecemeal, the whole process taking a millionth the amount of time it would if you were to glom all those ideas together into one big whole and turn it into something as unlikely-seeming by comparison as a book. This speed, then, may be deeply satisfying — even addictive — as writers bypass so much of the toil of getting a book out of their brains and off to readers (New York’s Kathryn Schulz elaborated smartly on this idea last week.)

There is no uniform stance on Twitter in the literary community, of course. Some, like Teju Cole and Colson Whitehead, find it vital; many others — led by a certain one-time Time coverboy from the Midwest, do not. Some writers have more prosaic feelings about Twitter. Novelist Peter Orner wrote, “Some are talented at it; others, less so.”

Zadie Smith is not on Twitter. Nor are Jeffrey Eugenides (though his vest once was), Michael Chabon (not really, though his writer wife Ayelet Waldman is), George Saunders, or David Mitchell. Jennifer Egan is, but just a little bit.

Nonetheless, Twitter appears to be here to stay, for a while anyway. And it will remain a pastime for writers looking for book news, inspiration, distraction, literary puns, and every other thing they might want. But it wasn’t always that way. In the not too distant past, the literary lights of Twitter pecked out their first 140 characters and waited to see what Twitter would bring.

Curious, I dug back into the Twitter archive to see how these writers took their first steps into Twitter. What follows are the very first tweets of some of Twitter’s well-known practitioners from the literary world.
Finishing the website entries for my fall novel The Year of the Flood.

— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) July 8, 2009
 
How does a petty trader come by N30 million worth of cars? Police hope Israel Ubatuegwu, of Ajah, has a good explanation.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) June 7, 2011
 
@R_Nash proud to be a part of ennui 2.0

— colson whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) March 15, 2009
 
Preparing for Book Expo America in the office in Dumbo. The last time we’ve to schlap boxes ourselves. Next year we pay the Teamsters…

— Richard Nash (@R_Nash) May 30, 2007
 
Last night at the Norman Mailer Award Ceremony in NYC, Oliver Stone said beautifully: “A serious writer is a rebel.”

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) October 5, 2012
 
trying to figure out if someone does a decent MP3 workout, which will magically transform my iphone and my body at the same time.

— Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) January 27, 2009
 
@JaneGreen I talked to Rufus just this morning…ok, I interviewed him for T+L

— Dani Shapiro (@danijshapiro) April 24, 2009
 
Slaughtered by Sam A. and Jefffery Y. at post-diner breakfast ping-pong. Licking wounds.

— Dwight Garner (@DwightGarner) February 13, 2009
 
Here’s a video of my speech at the NBCC in NYC last week: http://tinyurl.com/dfe8rt

— Ron Charles (@RonCharles) March 17, 2009
 
Testing…

— Sarah Weinman (@sarahw) April 24, 2007
 
reading

— Susan Orlean (@susanorlean) December 23, 2007
 
doesn’t want to be an editor. oops, too late.

— Emma Straub (@emmastraub) December 3, 2008
 
I just opened my present from Dave McKean, The Big Fat Duck Cookbook. Heavy as a stone and beautiful. “See?” he said. “I do read your blog.”

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) December 26, 2008
 
@ShitHomemaker – this is my first tweet and it’s your fault.

— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) September 15, 2011
 
Fine, then. I’ll twitter.

— John Green (@realjohngreen) December 11, 2008
 
No matter what I do there are always 5 emails in my inbox that I am avoiding.

— Doug Coupland (@DougCoupland) April 1, 2009
 
I’ve reached the limit on how many Facebook friends I can add. So here is a new page.

— Amy Tan (@AmyTan) August 12, 2010
 
http://www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/publishinghouse/books/detail/23

— E L James (@E_L_James) April 12, 2011
 
First Tweet ever, prompted by Jeff Howe’s essay in Sunday’s NYTBR. Velly interesting. Helloooooo?

— Erik Larson (@exlarson) May 22, 2012
 
Does anyone know who @BretEastonEllis is?

— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) April 10, 2009
 
@erlson You just got me to join Twitter.

— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) April 1, 2009
 
coveting Susan Lewis’ hair.

— Jennifer Weiner (@jenniferweiner) April 3, 2009
 
@chuckpalahniuk This is Dennis, webmaster at ChuckPalahniuk.net. Please contact me via my site email address. Thanks!

— Chuck Palahniuk (@chuckpalahniuk) January 28, 2009
 
Becoming far more wired than I probably really need to be.

— Joe Hill (@joe_hill) January 4, 2009
 
hi, i’m gary shteyngart, a furry 39-year-old immigrant man trapped in a young dachshund’s body. LOVE ME!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/RgLBxjYO

— Gary Shteyngart (@Shteyngart) December 1, 2011
 
I’m going to do it right this time.

— Emily Gould (@EmilyGould) May 21, 2009
 
today felt like the unabomber but i wasn’t plotting anything or planning anything or trying to bomb anything and i was wearing 4-inch heels

— Kate Zambreno (@daughteroffury) June 29, 2012
 
Wessex Man http://tinyurl.com/yw93xb

— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) March 18, 2007
 
News: Netherland wins PEN/Faulkner award: It was overlooked for the Booker prize and the prestigious US Nat.. http://bit.ly/AufPL

— Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) February 26, 2009
 
Podcasting: http://tinyurl.com/6hc9z4

— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) July 2, 2008
 
Check out our feature on the best audiobooks coming this spring.

— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) January 31, 2009
 
Mario Bros. meets Macbeth: What do a pixelated plumber and a murderous king have in common? Nintendo DS — in En.. http://tinyurl.com/5gr5m4

— L.A. Times Books (@latimesbooks) December 10, 2008
 
Hello, world! Official Library of Congress Twitter feed here. So nice to see 215 followers before so much as a single tweet!

— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) January 27, 2009
 
Welcome to the new GalleyCat Twitter feed, regularly collecting tweets from Senior Editor Ron Hogan, Editor Jason Boog, and Jeff Rivera.

— GalleyCat (@GalleyCat) August 26, 2009
 
Welcome to @nprbooks! We’ll use to to share our book coverage and hopefully talk about some good books, too. / @acarvin

— NPR Books (@nprbooks) January 8, 2010
 
We noticed lots of sites use Twitter for feedback. We created this account as a placeholder, but please visit our Feedback Group anytime!

— goodreads (@goodreads) August 19, 2008
 
56 years after William Styron warned us about chasing the zeitgeist, The Paris Review is now on twitter. From issue 1: http://bit.ly/BCnnE

— The Paris Review (@parisreview) September 4, 2009
 
Culling together work for Electric Literature no.2, planning events for October, spinning splendidly through another day at the office.

— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) August 31, 2009
 

Rick Moody on running out of luck: http://tinyurl.com/ckno8d

— The Rumpus (@The_Rumpus) January 29, 2009
 

What will be named top book of the decade? http://bit.ly/AMgq8 What’s your pick?

— The Millions (@The_Millions) September 21, 2009
 

What’s the best part of B.G.’s “Bling Bling” video? Pre-tattoo’d Wayne, zooming red VW Beetles, or the crew’s outdoor fine china picnic?

— Nick Moran (@nemoran3) February 2, 2011
 

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