The Tube of History Edition
Todays links of interest:
- TargetCast: Network TV’s Prime-time Spot Cost Drops 12%
Who didn’t see that one coming? - Social Network for Journalists Gets 2.75M in Financing
Publishing2 wants journalists to have just as much as college kids and wanna-be models…now there’s funding! - Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal
Guy starts blog, gets huge advance on book deal, smart analysts note that Martin Mull already wrote book. Still, this is the modern world and there’s quite a bit of snark happening out there is publishing land. - Now on the Endangered Species List: Movie Critics in Print
See previous re: book critics. - Clinton likens herself to ‘Rocky’
She also says Obama is more like Bullwinkle. - Online raiders stole my book
A messy, not-quite-fully-considered look at how piracy *might* impact authors. A few key points: offline raiders "stole" the book, it’s unclear if there was any impact on the author at all, except time, and, at the end of the day, it’s all about paying authors.