March 17, 2010
What’s that giant sucking sound?

6h057:

ninety9:

The air being let out of a thousand tumblr-to-book blogs.

That you’re writing from a poorly-handled Gawker item is probably assisting you in making this false assertion. Actually, Amason + Blakeley’s was the only book-to-blog thingie HarperStudio had going. The only other Tumblr-related blog book was Natasha’s Mad Men book, the book version of which was written and researched, not just lifted from her ongoing Tumblr project. Mine and Ken Layne’s are both reported books; that we both own websites is incidental and the content unrelated. Similarly for Merlin Mann. I can’t speak for 50 Cent or Gary Vaynerchuk or Anna Bernasek or Erica Jong or Mark Twain and their Tumblrs. But thanks for the good wishes!



3:10pm  |   URL: http://choiresicha.com/post/454898153/whats-that-giant-sucking-sound
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  1. misterhippity reblogged this from 6h057 and added:
    Tumblr did that! “Reblog auto-truncation” strikes again!
  2. lindsayrobertson reblogged this from choire and added:
    You tell ‘em, Choire! Also, how exactly would...publisher even run an imprint
  3. 6h057 reblogged this from youngmanhattanite and added:
    got packed into a...small and airless car, we’re going on a long trip and somebody’s...
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  5. youngmanhattanite reblogged this from ninety9 and added:
    The important part is to take all of this very seriously.
  6. 6h057 reblogged this from misterhippity and added:
    I like how your post makes it look like I wrote Choire’s words.
  7. ninety9 reblogged this from choire and added:
    The air being let out of a thousand tumblr-to-book blogsI was talking about the aspirants, not the catalog
  8. misterhippity reblogged this from choire and added:
    “poorly handled” part...why nobody wants to claim credit
  9. lock said: Ah, the seldom-seen ‘gawker’ byline! Read as, “This post was Nick’s idea, and everyone on staff hates it.”
  10. brianvan reblogged this from choire and added:
    label with Amanda Hesser! You could tour with her!
  11. nerdshares reblogged this from choire and added:
    Why would anyone assume that the publisher’s departure equals HarperCollins deciding to ignore the Internet or abandon...
  12. choire reblogged this from 6h057 and added:
    That you’re writing from a poorly-handled Gawker item is probably assisting you in making this false assertion....
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  14. 6h057 reblogged this from ninety9 and added:
    Like that chick at college who was known to have done two guys at the same time only to grow up and do away with her...
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