Publishers, Columnists, and Bloggers Argue Blogging; Seems a Tempest in a Teapot to Me

From Publishers Marketplace, links to Book Babes's look at "literary blogs" (although PM mentions they aren't sure where she got her list of "book blogs, since a lot of them, well, aren't"):

Poynter Online - Blogging for Books

and LA literary blogger Mark Sarva's response:

Publishers Marketplace: Obiter Dicta (A Supplement to The Elegant Variation)

Apparently the AP (this is also from Publishers Marketplace) has a piece today on authors who blog, including one of my favorites, Neil Gaiman, and quotes Farrar, Strauss and Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi as saying, "Maybe we're behind the times. I just think there are too many words out there already. I hope our writers will be spending their time writing their books, not their blogs."

The link they give, however, is unfortunately dead, but if it is resurrected or merely revealed as incorrect I'll put it up.

I don’t know – I just look at Neil Gaiman's blog because he seems like a nice guy, he once helped me find out via email about the writer of a 1969 book I really wanted to find, and I want to see if he's ever coming to LA so I can go see him. Seems pretty harmless to me.