Twitter for novels?

twitter-reading I’m not so sure about how I feel about this growing phenomenon, but I’d be ridiculously short-sighted to not have thought about it.

Twitter is, to my mind, a really perfectly balanced tool for many aspects of new media at the moment but, like facebook before it, twitter may easily take on a Walmart approach to buying and selling in high volume; to my mind that’s  the hell that any good new media application eventually starts building the low-cost paving stones for.

Twitter is no way to read a novel, but an undeniably fresh and arguably useful way to market one. Will this new approach to web 3.0 (god, I hate that term) mean that book groups can exist and thrive in an on-line environment better than they can from localized chapters of O Magazine subscribers? Will tweet-talk replace Thursday night at the local coffeeshop? And would that really be so bad if it did?

-Rob

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