And yet, somehow, this just makes me love academia all the more.

In the real world of the writer or the reader, the name you call the object doesn’t matter.

I have to admit that I while I am a reader, I’m not a writer or a publisher. Actually I spent most of my life as printer. Then a college instructor. Now a consultant.

What’s interesting to me is trying to think through how the change in the process of publishing this thing we mostly call a book has actually changed the nature of the thing itself.

For Baby Boomers like me, a “book” implies all kinds of things about authority, accuracy and authorship.

Is this still true for Generation Google? What will be true for the Generation right after them?

IMHO, lots of books have always been bullshit. The real difference now is that it’s much possible to find the interesting ones.

I like blook only because it implies a process. And, after taking a little flak on other previous uses of blook, I’m trying out bluuk to capture a more abbreviated faux book process.

Things like Political Tell All Autobiographies written to win a campaign or to get that next big gig.

@ming, :)

Frankly, people can call my novels what they like, so long as they’re open-minded enough to be prepared to read them.

This all reminds me about the discussions regarding comics/graphic novels.