Spark Armada by Nir Ofir: Blog on a bookshelf

May 2006

May 08, 2005

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Blog on a bookshelf

The “Keyboard” is a new project at Tapuz.co.il Blogs. Basically, we invite our bloggers to post their stories in their blogs and in the end of the project we will publish a book with the best stories. In the book, beside the stories we will put the URL to the writer’s blogs.

We have started this project 2 weeks ago and we got about 1000 stories. In this stage of the project, we are the ones that filter what stories will proceed to the next step. On the next step the web surfers will cast their votes and on the last stage our panel of writers will decide which 50-60 stories will get in the book. Meanwhile, our panel of writers responds to the stories in the blogs and gives their feedbacks about the content and the writing technique.

Dorit Zilberman, one of the writers that we chose for the panel said in a radio show “The democratic way of picking the stories enable new ways to discover new talents and giving the them a chance to be discovered . . . This is the natural place for a book to be born in our times”

We at Tapuz will donate the profits back to the community and the rights of the content will remain at the writers.

I do not think it is a revolutionary project. But be sure that it is a fun, creative and a great beginning of a new type of books. Collective books. Blog books. If this project will succeed we will do some more projects for: Recipe book, Science fiction book and more…

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