http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2010/01/deep-thoughts/ (another damned blog) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:08:36 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2010/01/deep-thoughts/#comment-735 Josh Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:31:02 +0000 http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/?p=341#comment-735 @Brian: "Ents, do your worst!" is pretty classic. @Brian: “Ents, do your worst!” is pretty classic.

]]> http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/2010/01/deep-thoughts/#comment-734 Brian Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:19:06 +0000 http://www.scribblescribblescribble.com/blog/?p=341#comment-734 Sometimes my authors refer to me as their 'press agent' and I'm like, No girl, YOU are your press agent. Books are not iPods or makeup where a publicist and marketer are *required* to craft stories and consumer experiences. Authors and to a degree editors do that within the book itself. It's as perfect a self-contained Thing as you could ever get, which is probably why it's been a literally fundamental technology for us Westerners for at least the past half-millennium or so. My favorite part of the Steamboats piece is where he's like, "Leave aside whether ebooks are worth doing at all," I hope he writes more on that later. Sometimes my authors refer to me as their ‘press agent’ and I’m like, No girl, YOU are your press agent. Books are not iPods or makeup where a publicist and marketer are *required* to craft stories and consumer experiences. Authors and to a degree editors do that within the book itself. It’s as perfect a self-contained Thing as you could ever get, which is probably why it’s been a literally fundamental technology for us Westerners for at least the past half-millennium or so. My favorite part of the Steamboats piece is where he’s like, “Leave aside whether ebooks are worth doing at all,” I hope he writes more on that later.

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