tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post4974601396092643919..comments2023-11-05T05:01:58.563-05:00Comments on Ward Six: The FTC Blogging Guidelines, clickthroughs, and AdSenseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-23286572155150086122011-01-13T05:15:41.396-05:002011-01-13T05:15:41.396-05:00Could be the Most desirable topic which I browsed ...Could be the Most desirable topic which I browsed through all day?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-71355455921514412452011-01-09T09:01:05.633-05:002011-01-09T09:01:05.633-05:00Super submit! Will you follow-up on this fabulous ...Super submit! Will you follow-up on this fabulous matter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-73206501962873036062009-10-17T02:24:04.911-05:002009-10-17T02:24:04.911-05:00Off topic, but I'm sure we're going to tal...Off topic, but I'm sure we're going to talk about it (already have a bit, with suspicion) -- my college roommate, Truck Stop Love drummer, and now movie critic Eric Melin has posted a review of Where The Wild Things Are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6hcrhp5wU&ed skooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03031257497473281838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-86043741822794668272009-10-15T12:20:15.077-05:002009-10-15T12:20:15.077-05:00Because you could steam off the postage and reuse ...Because you could steam off the postage and reuse it on holiday cards.ed skooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03031257497473281838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-61410259156944515232009-10-15T07:22:04.581-05:002009-10-15T07:22:04.581-05:00I like the postage-paid envelope idea!I like the postage-paid envelope idea!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-46890667346576080462009-10-15T07:00:18.400-05:002009-10-15T07:00:18.400-05:00I always wanted payola.I always wanted payola.rmellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133206908895131438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-23395655415621296592009-10-15T00:29:30.822-05:002009-10-15T00:29:30.822-05:00What do they think is going on? Payola for English...What do they think is going on? Payola for English majors?Pale Ramónnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-6219822644878981752009-10-14T20:36:07.273-05:002009-10-14T20:36:07.273-05:00Will companies include a prepaid return envelope? ...Will companies include a prepaid return envelope? Because if they do that, then I'd be happy to send whatever back. I'm trying to become less of a pack rat, so this would actually be welcome.<br /><br />These are just guidelines, though, right (sorry, but I'm not gonna read 81 pages of gov-speak to find this out myself)? So you still don't actually have to do it. It's not like G-men are gonna come knocking on your door. At least not for this reason.AltSunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02091271275548692502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-52744017309962226982009-10-14T16:33:13.889-05:002009-10-14T16:33:13.889-05:00Also, my friend and colleague Lyrae van Clief-Stef...Also, my friend and colleague Lyrae van Clief-Stefanon got a nod, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-70346469000271580692009-10-14T14:42:45.674-05:002009-10-14T14:42:45.674-05:00I think it's awesome, and says something about...I think it's awesome, and says something about big publishing and little publishing, that Wayne State University Press is the publisher of one of the National Book Award nominees in fiction.<br /><br />Jack Moskowitz would want me to point out that to his generation it's just "Wayne University".ed skooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03031257497473281838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-43615452045313361022009-10-14T11:12:17.960-05:002009-10-14T11:12:17.960-05:00i never considered that there was an economic valu...i never considered that there was an economic value at all to posting an Amazon link on my blogh for a book I was writing about. the only idea i had was that an author might actually sell a book that way. whenever possible I link to the publisher, if it's a small independent. the idea that any of this could be about money is ludicrous. I assume authors like sales because it means they're being read. The whole point is to read and write about what you're reading! Well, look what they did to internet radio. Look what they do to pirate radio. A friend of mine attended a publisher's conference on e-books in Canada, and said one of the big concerns was that e-books dilute the market. Offering something for free hurts everyone. I mean, it's a sinking ship. And now damn, my secret get rich quick plan of opening a used bookshop will be stolen by everyone!jonhttp://lastbender.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-82193431720832503472009-10-13T16:45:33.932-05:002009-10-13T16:45:33.932-05:00Yes, totally! I got a bitter little chuckle think...Yes, totally! I got a bitter little chuckle thinking about this supposed used bookstore a swag-drenched literary blogger could open, thanks to the largesse from the publishing industry.<br /><br />A used bookstore! Good god, a fella could really clean up, <i>if only he could get his hands on some of those used books.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-37018142600517346132009-10-13T16:42:38.937-05:002009-10-13T16:42:38.937-05:00It's strange that there would be FTC guideline...It's strange that there would be FTC guidelines for blogs. I still think of the internet as a lawless zone, the west without fences. <br /><br />As you semi-acknowledge, John, newspaper reviewing, newspapers, and book publishers are beginning to disappear. Their outlines are blurring, shimmering, soon to be ghosts.<br /><br />Because storytelling and poetry persevere, we'll still be around in whatever form, and will still be significant, substantive, read, listened to, and somehow sort-of remunerated. <br /><br />What's most archaic about the guideline, perhaps, the the antique notion that books have economic value worth getting excited about, or, at least, worth planning for a future where new physical books have economic value worthy of federal attention.ed skooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03031257497473281838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2046663689477874544.post-66347151619807979022009-10-13T13:59:18.469-05:002009-10-13T13:59:18.469-05:00I have started accepting books from publishers, mo...I have started accepting books from publishers, mostly because I spend so much time at the bookstore surrounded by books that I want very much... but I don't make much money. A few moments of weakness at the store can suck away half my paycheck. If publishers want to send me freebies on the off chance I'll love them and publicize them on this little blog, I'm not going to stop them. It stops my jonesing.<br /><br />But heavens above, I'll be happy to say where I got them. But sending them back??? That's redonkulous, and it won't happen. Used books are worth about $1, and cost quite a bit more to ship. We'd do better to burn them in the woodstove.rmellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133206908895131438noreply@blogger.com