Comments on: How Not To Start A Book Club http://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Rich http://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/comment-page-1/#comment-152909 Rich Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:33:00 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/10/03/2161/#comment-152909 The book club is entertainment and entertaining. And about the food -- my bookclub does a heck of a lot of eating (and drinking!). Borders is moving into original broadband entertainment like so many other companies - and why not? There are no hurdles to getting into the TV-style game as is the case in cable and broadcast television, and they already have a brand loyal audience. It seems like a smart extension to me. Not getting the time warp part. This is how Home and Garden TV started, how Food Network started, How ESPN and C-SPAN and CNN started. Now those networks are icons with large dedicated followings. Quality programming will attract an audience and makes infinitely more sense than a 30-second advertisement on someone else's program in a Tivo-driven world. As for Mitch vs. Pynchon, well, you have a point there. Maybe a need for another book club for those with a more literary palette. I do agree it would be nice to have a place to discuss what we've watched after the fact. A community posting or online author Q&A would be cool. Something in-store to promote would be nice as well. And I think the wine component would be a very nice addition! I might send that one to Borders myself. The book club is entertainment and entertaining. And about the food — my bookclub does a heck of a lot of eating (and drinking!). Borders is moving into original broadband entertainment like so many other companies – and why not? There are no hurdles to getting into the TV-style game as is the case in cable and broadcast television, and they already have a brand loyal audience. It seems like a smart extension to me. Not getting the time warp part. This is how Home and Garden TV started, how Food Network started, How ESPN and C-SPAN and CNN started. Now those networks are icons with large dedicated followings. Quality programming will attract an audience and makes infinitely more sense than a 30-second advertisement on someone else’s program in a Tivo-driven world.

As for Mitch vs. Pynchon, well, you have a point there. Maybe a need for another book club for those with a more literary palette.

I do agree it would be nice to have a place to discuss what we’ve watched after the fact. A community posting or online author Q&A would be cool. Something in-store to promote would be nice as well. And I think the wine component would be a very nice addition! I might send that one to Borders myself.

]]> By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/comment-page-1/#comment-148352 Booksquare Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:36:43 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/10/03/2161/#comment-148352 You know, I'd be totally amused by this, but I live with an A's fan. Life is rough at BS Central. You know, I’d be totally amused by this, but I live with an A’s fan. Life is rough at BS Central.

]]> By: David Thayer http://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/comment-page-1/#comment-148301 David Thayer Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:23:57 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/10/03/2161/#comment-148301 Mitch Albom. Snacking with Mitch? Tuesdays with Mitch? Watching the Tigers get annihilated with Mitch? Mitch Albom. Snacking with Mitch? Tuesdays with Mitch? Watching the Tigers get annihilated with Mitch?

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