Comments on: Blurb launches crowd-sourced books

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:58:43 +0000

I was quite sceptical about ‘crowd sourced books’. There’s a reason why most of us are not writers (and its not because we dont have distribution). Getting a mass of untalented writers to collaborate and write a crowd sourced book seems like a recipe for distaster. Speaking of recipes, I do think, however, the two ideas you mention — cookbooks and wedding books make a lot of sense. I just hope that Blurb is going in that direction. Believe me — a real book written by my friends and I would NOT be up for a Booker Prize nomination!

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:54:51 +0000

Thanks for your detailed contribution Paul, wherever it is!

By: Paul Carr

Paul Carr — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:19:57 +0000

I’ve just commented on this on TC US (saw it there first). I guess it’s bad form to double post so, yunno, ditto what I said over there.