A book catalog – on Twitter?
By Marjorie Kehe | 03.27.09
“Literary types are obsessed with Twitter,” observes GalleyCat, the mediabistro daily book blog. They may be right. As the same blog points out, there are book clubs on the microblogging site, as well as hardcover books composed of Twitter posts (see “Twitter Wit” and “My Life In Tweets.”)
And now there is even a book catalog on Twitter.
Countryman Press is putting their entire fall catalog on the microblogging site, with all books noted and summarized in 140-word posts.
You may or may not be a Twitter fan, but it’s hard not to admire the economy of language of those who think in 140-character sound bites.
For instance, the book “EatingWell: Comfort Foods Made Healthy” (abbreviated to “EatingWell Comfort Fds Made Healthy”) gets the following description: “175 recipes that makeover your faves, removing fat and cals, retaining taste.”
What more do you really need?
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2. Astralis | 03.31.09
If you can’t search on Amazon for a book, you’re not going to search on Twitter, especially for a review that is most basic in its details. To think this is what people want is bold.
3. Sheridan | 03.31.09
There are so many sign on options. One doesn’t know which one is suitable for him. What if he has a controversial book of the Vietnam War that is being blocked by the Patriotic Act I & II. What is this author’s option?
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1. Courtney | 03.30.09
i don’t get it. twitter updates don’t stick around forever, are they going to reenter this every few months? is this for people to search the catalog? how will that work with all the text abbreviations? Even the example you give woudln’t show up if people searched for “food” if they call it “fds”. And no links from the messages or their profile? Huh? No wonder they only have 49 followers, this is hardly groundbreaking used they way they have.