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“If the blog-to-book phenomenon has done little for the book as a discrete object, we might consider its potential as a means of creating an experience economy in the publishing industry that does more than simply plop a few overstuffed sofas and a Starbucks in the lobby of Barnes and Noble—one that positions the book as a catalyst for the social encounters the Internet helps facilitate.”
—This just in: Welcome to the Book Club, my piece from this month’s issue of the Brooklyn Rail is now online. It’s a follow-up to a bit I did earlier in the summer called In Print We Trust.