Blogs are being used much more for marketing and communication purposes now.
Our publishing house uses one to feature and promote new publications and books.
On another issue, I was listening to NPR last week and there is a new way to get yourself published. There are popping up machines that will take your document and format it and print and bind it all for about $10.00
Allows you to get a finished product that you can hand to someone to read. (Check out NPR I cannot remember the name of it.)
Stewart At 06:43 PM 6/5/2009, you wrote:
Absolutely not. Rants and undisciplined self-expression in a blog are a total waste of time. Save that for your diary. Ask any marketing expert in the publications industry: blogging is one of the few ways to get your work out to the public and, ultimately, the publishers. It's getting harder--make that almost impossible--for a first novelist--or even a midlist author who doesn't hit the NYTimes Bestseller list--to get something published with a major commercial publisher. But get a ready-made audience from your blog that you can "sell" to the publisher and you've got a chance. Obviously, what's on your blog had better be pretty good. --Constance Warner
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