Comments on: Reading books on Twitter? A newspaper for your exact location? http://trapdoorbooks.com/?p=697 the publishing home of the geek fiction community Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:17:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris Matney http://trapdoorbooks.com/?p=697&cpage=1#comment-220 Chris Matney Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:34:11 +0000 http://trapdoorbooks.com/?p=697#comment-220 Here is a timely article: Google Books Is Trying To Get People To Read By Tweeting Out Literary Quotes http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/google-books-is-trying-to-get-people-to-read-by-tweeting-out-literary-quotes/ Google Books has had a big month. The user interface got an overhaul with new tools and features, including new search features, and the U.S. Department of Justice formally announced the investigation of the settlement Google made with the Author’s Guild to make orphan books available on the web. Now Google is using Twitter as a vehicle to help you learn what books are available. Under the “@googlebooks” Twitter handle, Google is posting excerpts from books in its index of works via popular or quirky book quotes. The Tweet we included is from Francis Bacon’s “Essays” compiled by Edwin Abbott. Google says that they’ve chosen their favorite quotes from its list of the most popular passages of books (which you can find on each book’s overview page). If you click on the links in each tweet, you’ll be able to see the quote in context on the page. Here is a timely article: Google Books Is Trying To Get People To Read By Tweeting Out Literary Quotes

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/google-books-is-trying-to-get-people-to-read-by-tweeting-out-literary-quotes/

Google Books has had a big month. The user interface got an overhaul with new tools and features, including new search features, and the U.S. Department of Justice formally announced the investigation of the settlement Google made with the Author’s Guild to make orphan books available on the web. Now Google is using Twitter as a vehicle to help you learn what books are available.

Under the “@googlebooks” Twitter handle, Google is posting excerpts from books in its index of works via popular or quirky book quotes. The Tweet we included is from Francis Bacon’s “Essays” compiled by Edwin Abbott.

Google says that they’ve chosen their favorite quotes from its list of the most popular passages of books (which you can find on each book’s overview page). If you click on the links in each tweet, you’ll be able to see the quote in context on the page.

]]> By: Todd Newton http://trapdoorbooks.com/?p=697&cpage=1#comment-212 Todd Newton Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:11:28 +0000 http://trapdoorbooks.com/?p=697#comment-212 I think Twitter, as a format, just doesn't lend itself well to longer ... anything. Might as well post the MS on a blog and tweet links to it, but reading a few sentences at a time (particularly 4700 potentially random times) just doesn't appeal to me as a reader. I heard about this a month or two ago, also, and I just didn't get it. It's different, sure, and it gets attention, but where exactly does that attention go? What does it result in? Is there an actual call-to-action from tweeting a book? I think Twitter, as a format, just doesn’t lend itself well to longer … anything. Might as well post the MS on a blog and tweet links to it, but reading a few sentences at a time (particularly 4700 potentially random times) just doesn’t appeal to me as a reader. I heard about this a month or two ago, also, and I just didn’t get it. It’s different, sure, and it gets attention, but where exactly does that attention go? What does it result in? Is there an actual call-to-action from tweeting a book?

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