A few weeks ago, HarperCollins closed their Collins division, which mostly published nonfiction titles. Now the New York Times is reporting that the company will be opening a new division, “It Books”:
This fall the company will publish 21 new hardcover and paperback original titles under the It Books imprint, focusing on pop culture, sports, style and content derived from the Internet, like a planned collection of Twitter posts called “Twitter Wit.”
I take back everything nice I’ve ever said about the internet. It is making us stupider and less interesting as a culture. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go read Henry James until it’s time for tonight’s Reading Frenzy benefit.
Kinda like Japan’s cell phone novels, except crappier.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12…
Everyone does realize why the word TWIT is in Twitter?
I feel like there’s room for both. I love The Europeans AND I love Twitter. We can all get along.
Naw. Not this. This is the death of what’s left of civilization as we know it.
Why would I buy a dead-tree collection of tweets, fahgawdsake, when I can get the same banality on line for nothing? And a book derived from the wit of the intarmets when all I have to do is surf over to icanhascheezburger.com and let my brain dissolve into jello?
This is so not a good prize.