Comments on: Alas, poor computer media… http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=349 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Liminal Librarian » Blog Archive » Survey says http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-3260 The Liminal Librarian » Blog Archive » Survey says Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:10:35 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=349#comment-3260 [...] a brief FYI: The book review blog survey is closed (it filled up pretty quickly — thanks for sharing!). Stay tuned for info on where [...] [...] a brief FYI: The book review blog survey is closed (it filled up pretty quickly — thanks for sharing!). Stay tuned for info on where [...]

]]> By: librarybob http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-3176 librarybob Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:00:54 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=349#comment-3176 I decided I couldn't finish the survey because I'm not actually a selector ... but I do think "professional book review blogs" are important if we're to get past the existing information bottleneck. One hard part, I suppose, comes from vetting the reviewers but this is important. Amazon.com (etc.) allows anyone to post a review and there's no way to distinguish the accurate review from one by the author's spouse. A second would be getting review copies, but maybe not that hard a task once publishers understand that the reviewers have been vetted. I decided I couldn’t finish the survey because I’m not actually a selector … but I do think “professional book review blogs” are important if we’re to get past the existing information bottleneck.

One hard part, I suppose, comes from vetting the reviewers but this is important. Amazon.com (etc.) allows anyone to post a review and there’s no way to distinguish the accurate review from one by the author’s spouse.

A second would be getting review copies, but maybe not that hard a task once publishers understand that the reviewers have been vetted.

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