So much good stuff floating around again this week that it was hard to pare down what to link to….
To start out, you can head over to the Econsultancy blog to see 20+ Mind-Blowing Social Media Statistics (revisited). 175 million people using Facebook every 24 hours is, well, mind-blowing.
This was also the week of the iPad announcement. While it’s not social media, per se, other than as a device to use it, I think authors/illustrators need to be paying attention as it is a big step in changing the publishing landscape (even if not instantly).
You can read a grab bag of coverage at Bag The Web’s iPad page. There’s also a good New York Times article today: Is the iPad a Kid’s Best Friend?
This week also saw the launch of Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin. Instead of using “traditional” media, Seth appeared on 40 different websites/blogs to launch the book.
I really enjoyed his interview on Chris Guillebeau’s The Art of Non-Conformity – Art and Plumbing: The Indispensable Interview with Seth Godin. Plenty of food for thought in the interview and in the comments.
Found a great link this week? Please let us all know….
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Thx, Greg. The evening Jobs introduced the iPad, I posted on a listserv of published children’s writers that I thought, given the color advantage, it will change the face of picture book publishing–one of the most costly, time-consuming products in the kidlit publishing world. The only responses I got were links to the hokey YouTube video. I thought I stood alone until I read this post.
I think, over time, the iPad and others like it will open up a world of possibility. The Apple bookstore model, too, is a game-changer. iTunes really had no established digital competitor, unlike iBooks with Amazon, so it’s not clear how this’ll all play out. But it’s another step… and yes, I agree: color and interactivity mean picture books (or digital versions of what they can be) will have another outlet.