The future of book publishing: blogging
I just now realized that the two books I'm currently in the middle of, "AJAX Design Patterns" and "The Long Tail" both started out as online collections of articles on sites, with Michael Mahemoff's wiki and Chris Anderson's blog, respectively. They're basically aggregated, bound and sold for profit. I for one don't mind shelling out $$$ for such publications, as I loathe the concept of the e-book for longform reading.
Could this signal a sea change in how books get published? Is this the new generation of the graphic novel? I'm in.
Could this signal a sea change in how books get published? Is this the new generation of the graphic novel? I'm in.
posted by Jason Salas @ 11:04 AM
4 Comments:
At November 3, 2006 2:38 AM,
Anonymous said…
What is your recommendation for AJAX books
At November 3, 2006 3:44 PM,
Jason Salas said…
You can find a list of all the books I've reviewed (including AJAX titles) here.
At November 14, 2006 2:29 AM,
Michael Mahemoff said…
Yep, Whatever the future of books is, it will certainly involve blogging and wikis.
Ajax Patterns started with a blog post where I started writing brainstorming patterns one night and eventually finished at ~4am.
http://softwareas.com/ajax-patterns
I half-thought about putting it on a wiki at the time, and was convinced it would be worthwhile after the initial interest in the blog article. So having the blog readily available to whip up some ideas quickly was probably a key factor in the whole thing going ahead.
It must be said that a book sitting deeply in the long tail (Ajax Patterns) doesn't receive anywhere near as much valuable feedback during the writing/blogging process as one sitting in the fat head (Long Tail).
At November 25, 2006 12:12 PM,
Wallace said…
I don't see wikis and blogs knocking off the written word. I think that there are a number of issues that have to be considered beyond just the availability of content. I had a long talk with one of the editors from my publisher this week about the concept. No matter how you look at it, it just does not seem to have a lot of legs.
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