Comments on: How Not To Start A Book Club https://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=how-not-to-start-a-book-club Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rich https://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/#comment-152909 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.

]]> By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/#comment-148352 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.

]]> By: David Thayer https://booksquare.com/how-not-to-start-a-book-club/#comment-148301 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?

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