Writers Get Close on Web [Wall Street Journal paywall]
Writers Get Close on Web [Google paywall detour]
With fewer authors going on extended tours and fewer bookstores around to host signing events, Simon & Schuster is betting it can build author readership, and sales, through video interviews in which its writers answer reader questions sent by email.
So, you submit a question that might be answered.
And when?
And why the hell should anyone want to see it answered in a video?
This is like Writer In A Box.
You know, like Jack In A Box.
Except instead of spinning a handle, you click on a question and a writer pops up.
Welcome to 2008, print publishing, where I said it better:
How Our Future Does Things
This Is The Future Of Book Tours
Reference: Internet Video Chat
How Our Future Does Things
I Am Internationally Persecuted!
Live jkk & Chippy!
Now catch the hell up!
In case print publishing wants to catch up to other bits of 2008 too:
Reference: Author Trading Cards
Reference: Author Trading Cards
eBook Signings: The Postcard Solution?
