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Rumpus Book ClubDilettantes and Amateurs
“The Internet is a landscape of dilettantes and amateurs, those for whom this literary pursuit is not a career but an avocation. Their opinions may well be unsophisticated, but they are also largely unpretentious, honest, and conversational. They are able to build a trust with their readers that print reviewers somehow lost.”
Daniel Pritchard on the proliferation of online book reviewers. Are they as talented as their print-only forebears?
July 15th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
i’m more likely to buy a book based on a good review from an online book reviewer, particularly one i’ve interacted with online or otherwise. there’s just more of a connection there and i tend to trust the judgment because of that.
there’s also the fact that online reviewers are more likely to review the types of books i’m interested in, which tend to be small press offerings.