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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Books 2 Bits of Book Promotion News and an Announcement

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:31 PM

1. An author who self-published through the Kindle just signed a two-book deal with Simon and Schuster. This is the first Kindle author to break into mainstream publishing. I'm willing to bet it won't be the last.

2. Tech Crunch is reporting that Matt Stewart is publishing his entire novel, titled The French Revolution, on Twitter. It will take 3,700 individual posts. I think Stewart loses points for the stunt because he had a programmer design an automated system for posting the novel. (Via General Gentry on Twitter.)

3. Happy Bastille Day to all of my froggy brethren!

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I can't wait to cook up a batch of Freedom Fries when I get home.

Fuckin' French and their refusal to support our mindless aimless endless pointless wars. How dare they?

Posted by Spiffy D on July 14, 2009 at 4:36 PM

To the Barricades!

By the way, France is a right-wing country right now, in case you weren't paying attention.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 14, 2009 at 4:48 PM

The problem with Twittering a novel is it makes using Twitter completely useless. You can't follow it, it would be difficult to read and drown out other feeds, so you have to go to the page itself. And what's the point of that? Why not just post it on a blog? It's a meaningless stunt that just makes the novel difficult to read because of how it's broken up.

Posted by N on July 14, 2009 at 4:48 PM