{"id":198,"date":"2007-05-27T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T17:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/book-reviews-in-blogs-and-newspapers\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T17:41:33","slug":"book-reviews-in-blogs-and-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/outreach\/blogging\/book-reviews-in-blogs-and-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews in Blogs and Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Wilkert makes <a href=\"http:\/\/jwikert.typepad.com\/the_average_joe\/2007\/05\/book_reviews_ne.html\" title=\"book reviewing\" target=\"_blank\">some good points about book reviewing on his Publishing 2020 blog<\/a>. Why do so many people like reading the reviews of books on Amazon.com? I think it&#8217;s because we all know how much tastes vary. Amazon presents the viewpoints both of those who like a book and those who don&#8217;t. Even if no one of these reviews is particularly good, if you read enough of them you can get a pretty good sense of whether the book is likely to appeal to you.<\/p>\n<p>Print media, however, has mostly failed to keep up with the social media revolution. Books reviews in papers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/another-book-review-folding\/\" title=\"print book reviews\" target=\"_blank\">have been dropping fast<\/a>, but those that remain still by and large do things the old way: an editor assigns a book to a reviewer who produces a review to a certain specified length, which is then run without comment, except for the occasional letter to the editor in a subsequent week. Reviewers take pride in not being influenced by the opinions of others (in theory; in practice most recycle the publisher&#8217;s press release). But if print book reviewing is to survive it will have to figure out ways to engage a community in a more participatory product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Wilkert makes some good points about book reviewing on his Publishing 2020 blog. Why do so many people like reading the reviews of books on Amazon.com? I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}