Monday, December 20, 2004
11D: Publishing
11D: Publishing: "Having numbers and reactions in hand can be just the thing to cinch a deal. When editors pitch ideas in a meeting, they can show those numbers to hostile directors. In these times, numbers are everything. Publishers can't take risks, and bloggers have an edge over untried authors.
I would love to see some more bloggers make the transition to publishing. If you're interested, I could have Suze as a guest blogger one day and she can tell you how to do it."
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New connections between blogging and publishing??? The traditional academic mindset is that "if it's been somewhere before, we can't publish it . . . ." - is this possibly changing?
Despite the wonders of the internet, it hasn't decreased the number of books I buy. In fact, it's only widened my interests. Maybe publishers understand that, too. It's also opening the publishing world to the masses and beyond just the editors who think they know what people want to read. Often they're right, but there's a great deal they miss. Will be interesting to see what develops.
Am also thinking about how this applies to developing student activities to learn history and their eventual "official publication" status - primarily outside the print medium since interactive exercises don't fit there anyway.
I would love to see some more bloggers make the transition to publishing. If you're interested, I could have Suze as a guest blogger one day and she can tell you how to do it."
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New connections between blogging and publishing??? The traditional academic mindset is that "if it's been somewhere before, we can't publish it . . . ." - is this possibly changing?
Despite the wonders of the internet, it hasn't decreased the number of books I buy. In fact, it's only widened my interests. Maybe publishers understand that, too. It's also opening the publishing world to the masses and beyond just the editors who think they know what people want to read. Often they're right, but there's a great deal they miss. Will be interesting to see what develops.
Am also thinking about how this applies to developing student activities to learn history and their eventual "official publication" status - primarily outside the print medium since interactive exercises don't fit there anyway.
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