No, I am not talking about this blog! As a reader who has inevitably made their way to this blog, I am going to assume you have a rather good sense of where to find book news on this interweb thingy, but in case you do not, I am here to tell you where NOT to go for book news... I often check out various sites to find new reviews, interviews, and stories from around the book world (granted, much of this done while I am work and trying to limit my digital footprint in preparation of that inevitable meeting with my boss when an online usage report is created for me). I have always thought it good practice to try out various sites (book-centric sites, entertainment sites, media sites, you name it) as you never know when some exclusive interview or story might you may have missed catches your eye. Now, you would think a place like cnn.com, being a news leader of some sorts, would have a writer somewhere who could spend a few minutes a week covering books? No, CNN is being named my worst place on the internet for books news... as of the writing of this (the evening of June 14th), the most recent item on http://topics.cnn.com/topics/book_reviews is 10 days old, and the most recent story on http://topics.cnn.com/topics/books is over two months old! Seriously, not even a story covering the announcement of a forthcoming Dan Brown book or how the economy is hurting book sales (but helping Romance novels). Sure, MSNBC is not much better, and Fox News actually has no book section at all, but for some reason I expect more from cnn... I remember reading a story on Robert Jordan when Winter’s Heart was released and thinking to myself that cnn was really trying to do a good job covering the book world. Well, no longer. Of course, this was a long time ago and, I suppose, their priorities are elsewhere, but I worry that maybe it is partly because people (minus the readers of book blogs) just don’t care about books anymore... or maybe, just maybe, it is because book blogs now exist? No, I am not talking about this blog!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
The Worst Place on the Internet for Book News
No, I am not talking about this blog! As a reader who has inevitably made their way to this blog, I am going to assume you have a rather good sense of where to find book news on this interweb thingy, but in case you do not, I am here to tell you where NOT to go for book news... I often check out various sites to find new reviews, interviews, and stories from around the book world (granted, much of this done while I am work and trying to limit my digital footprint in preparation of that inevitable meeting with my boss when an online usage report is created for me). I have always thought it good practice to try out various sites (book-centric sites, entertainment sites, media sites, you name it) as you never know when some exclusive interview or story might you may have missed catches your eye. Now, you would think a place like cnn.com, being a news leader of some sorts, would have a writer somewhere who could spend a few minutes a week covering books? No, CNN is being named my worst place on the internet for books news... as of the writing of this (the evening of June 14th), the most recent item on http://topics.cnn.com/topics/book_reviews is 10 days old, and the most recent story on http://topics.cnn.com/topics/books is over two months old! Seriously, not even a story covering the announcement of a forthcoming Dan Brown book or how the economy is hurting book sales (but helping Romance novels). Sure, MSNBC is not much better, and Fox News actually has no book section at all, but for some reason I expect more from cnn... I remember reading a story on Robert Jordan when Winter’s Heart was released and thinking to myself that cnn was really trying to do a good job covering the book world. Well, no longer. Of course, this was a long time ago and, I suppose, their priorities are elsewhere, but I worry that maybe it is partly because people (minus the readers of book blogs) just don’t care about books anymore... or maybe, just maybe, it is because book blogs now exist? No, I am not talking about this blog!
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