tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861486.post8496558329612265720..comments2023-10-15T11:42:21.659-04:00Comments on pages turned: A rantSFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17439972994357205049noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861486.post-60533657899808017032009-04-16T21:08:00.000-04:002009-04-16T21:08:00.000-04:00Jill, I work in a library and I can't justify the ...Jill, I work in a library and I can't justify the number of people who don't read there either. <br /><br />Bybee, I think Yabroff had to resort to a formulaic controversy--commercial vs. literary--to pad out her actual reporting on Picoult and her fans. Reading the books to review would have taken more time than turning out a fluff piece.SFPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439972994357205049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861486.post-25006249778850735692009-04-15T22:50:00.000-04:002009-04-15T22:50:00.000-04:00I don't think Yabroff gets it, the "it" being read...I don't think Yabroff gets it, the "it" being reading.Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861486.post-74017130706991625252009-04-15T16:44:00.000-04:002009-04-15T16:44:00.000-04:00Both the blog entry and the comments here indicate...Both the blog entry and the comments here indicate a real lack of interest in marketing product. I don't know *why* the publishers in trade and consumer publishing feel they have no obligation to market titles properly, but its clear that they either don't think it is their job or they don't think it is worth their valuable time. I actually work in publishing and can't justify it to you.Jill ONeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03348126772146456322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861486.post-51290812511532614142009-04-15T07:09:00.000-04:002009-04-15T07:09:00.000-04:00I've received quite a few spiritual self-help book...I've received quite a few spiritual self-help books (or at least that's how I'd classify them). Perhaps some wag of a publicist thinks that's what I need, but I have no intention of reading them (let alone reviewing them) and put them immediately in the Kidney Foundation donation box.<br /><br />The gaffe is from <I>The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet</I>, which I'm a little more than halfway through and enjoying wholeheartedly. The press release says the main character, after receiving a phone call telling him the Smithsonian has given him an award, slips out at dawn "the next morning" to hop a freight train headed east. <I>The next morning</I> he starts a map of <I>Moby-Dick</I> and proceeds to spend the afternoon helping his father on the ranch.SFPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439972994357205049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861486.post-38749012850674092842009-04-14T23:36:00.000-04:002009-04-14T23:36:00.000-04:00Many of the review copies I receive arrive with no...Many of the review copies I receive arrive with no press release or note. Some of the books are so far from anything I ever write about on M-mv, I find myself wondering, "Why did you send this to *me*?"<br /><br />Are you going to educate us about the gaffe?<br /><br />MelissaMental multivitaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399560628858130962noreply@blogger.com