{"id":454,"date":"2006-02-07T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2006-02-07T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T17:41:00","slug":"in-the-news-book-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/in-the-news-book-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Book Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/\">Blurb Home<\/a>: <i>Washington Post<\/i> review of a demo of the product explains that you go from &#8220;Blogs to Books, using a &#8216;Blog Slurper.'&#8221; The service is still in beta testing. <\/p>\n<p>It looks like an interesting product, but it&#8217;s not publishing books in the Library of Congress sense of things. No ISBN, etc. You&#8217;re publishing your own book in the same way that you could if you just printed it out using your home printer. Don&#8217;t really want to knock it, but it&#8217;s sort of like saying your photo album is a coffee table book.<\/p>\n<p>Now I realize that in the classroom definition of things where we talk about publishing students work, it&#8217;s clearly publishing. And it&#8217;s a book if you think it&#8217;s a book. But it felt as if they left things out. It&#8217;s just a new tool for vanity publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blurb Home: Washington Post review of a demo of the product explains that you go from &#8220;Blogs to Books, using a &#8216;Blog Slurper.&#8217;&#8221; The service is still in beta testing. It looks like an interesting product, but it&#8217;s not publishing books in the Library of Congress sense of things. No ISBN, etc. You&#8217;re publishing your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-7k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}