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Former Gawker writer is getting paid 5 figures by HC for a book aggregating other people’s Twitter posts (called “Tweets”… the quotes protect me from having used that ridiculous term, I hope. Quotes are like condoms for stupid language). Someone please kill me now. I’m too apathetic and fascinated to do it myself. (Thanks, SB)
HarperCollins is paying Nick Douglas a five-figure sum for Twitter Wit, a book of the Gawker alum’s favorite Twitter posts. Is getting paid for aggregating other people’s “tweets” as lazy as it sounds?
Because it sounds somehow even lazier than making a book out of your mom’s email messages, a scheme hatched up, perhaps not coincidentally, by another Gawker writer.
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March 5th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Trust me, it takes plenty of work to edit a book like this. So much work that just to find something else to do, you start Googling the blog references to the book and making comments on them. And then adding links to your submission site [see link above] in case anyone wants to add to the pile of pretty great jokes to sift through.