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Thursday, 15th April 2010

A Massive Asynchronous Book Club: Big Read Concept Comes to Twitter

Yet another use for Twitter and possibly more looking for the winning book at the library. It will be interesting to see how this works out.

From the PW Article:

What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and formed one massive, international book club? That's the thinking behind Wired writer Jeff Howe's One Book, One Twitter project. "The aim with One Book, One Twitter is--like the one city, one book program which inspired it--is to get a zillion people all reading and talking about a single book," said Howe.

Until April 27th, visitors can select a book from a list of finalists. Once the finalist is announced, it's time to start reading.

Howe's goal was that the books be "of general interest," "translated into many, many languages," and "freely available."

The Finalists Are:

+ The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

+ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

+ Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

+ 1984 by George Orwell

+ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

+ 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

+ American Gods by Neil Gaiman

+ Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

+ Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

+ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Source: Publisher's Weekly

Howe Writes on Wired.com:

The rules for the final round of voting have changed slightly. Voting will be limited to 10 titles, and we’ll be taking further nominations.

For anyone just joining us, One Book, One Twitter (#1b1t) is an effort to get everyone on Twitter to read the same book this summer.

Howe continues with an explanation on how they arrived at ten titles and then lists each title with a brief summary.

Finally, vote at the bottom of the Wired article by voting up or down for the book you would like to win or not win. If we understand this correctly, you get up to ten votes in either direction. You'll also see a list of how many votes each book has. As of Thursday evening, librarian super pal, Neil Gaiman's American Gods has a sizable lead over 1984 (#2) and Fahrenheit 451 (#3).

Communicate

To Reach Jeff Howe via Twitter: @crowdsourcing

The Twitter Hashtag for One Book, One Tweet is #1b1t

Howe's Weblog. "Crowdsourcing" at Crowdsourcing.com

Access the Complete Wired Article With Much More Info

See Also: Listen Online: A Massive Asynchronous Book Club (via Future Tense on American Public Radio)

A conversation with Jeff Howe.

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