When Bookish Worlds Collide

We bookish folks currently live in a funny and expanding universe. Funny and expanding because much of it, for many of us largely takes place virtually. Well, #followreader is one prime example. And, chatting about books and publishing outside of #followreader with fellow Twitter bookish tweeps is another. As are: all the groups and fan [...]

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#1b1t Chooses Neil Gaiman Title: Reading Discussion Schedule Update

It was officially announced last week: the One Book One Twitter book club will be reading Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. The start date was yesterday, but there’s still time to jump on board. If you are curious about just how a Twitter-based, global book club works, you are not alone. In fact, #1b1t’s Marcel Valdes [...]

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#FollowReader: One Book, One Twitter (#1b1t)

“Let’s love one book together, our actual geographical location be damned.” ~Jeff Howe (aka @crowdsourcing) Dear fellow FollowReader-ers, We have found a bookish soul mate. His name is Jeff Howe and he’s our guest on #FollowReader today. Jeff is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, and coiner of the phrase and author of the book [...]

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The Book Club Renaissance

I was speaking with a publisher yesterday who is all excited about plans to include book club guides in many of their forthcoming books.  Yes, book club guides sound like a nice idea, but the excitement she was expressing over the prospect kind of threw me for a loop. Reading guides?  Surely this is not [...]

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#FollowReader: Bookish Communities

Last week’s #followreader was really fun (well, for me anyway). The topic was: “Bookish Communities, On and Offline – Where Do You Get Your Fix?” Lots of people tweeted up to let us know about their favorite face-to-face and web-based book clubs, as well as about book-centric social networking sites, libraries, bookstore events, blogs, and websites that they frequent to get their book on.

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