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I’ll be joining Tammy Nam (Scribd), Andrew Pate (On Demand Books), and Calvin Reed (Publishers Weekly) for a conversation on “The New Book Club: Social Networking” at Mediabistro’s eBook Summit in New York next Tuesday, December 15.  You can follow event news on Twitter via the #ebooksummit hashtag and eBookNewser’s lists for attendees and speakers.

Recent coverage for Fictionaut:

• At the Huffington Post: “Transcend and Include: Fictionaut and the Future of the Literary Magazine.” It’s been a long time since I last used a colon in a title.
• At Mediabistro, I was interviewed by Jason Boog and Matt Van Hoven. Live!
• Ron Callari wrote a great overview of the site for InventorSpot.
• Critical Mass is the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors. Eric Banks did a Q&A with me: “What’s with the -naut suffix to the name?“

At the Huffington Post’s new book section, I talk about the ideas behind Fictionaut:

What would happen, I wondered, if you gave in to that pull and let anyone publish? There are a great many writers worth reading, many of them published and many more who never make it past the traditional gatekeepers. Could we trust social features and a recommendation algorithm to help each other find them?