Publishers Marketplace announced the following deal on 28 April, 2006:
Digital media critic and tech-industry veteran Andrew Keen's THE GREAT SEDUCTION: Silicon Valley's Assault on Our Culture and Values, expanding on ideas from his blog (www.thegreatseduction.com) and recent piece for The Weekly Standard criticizing the ideology and cultural consequences of the Web 2.0 movement, to Roger Scholl at Currency/Doubleday, in a pre-empt, by Stephen Hanselman at LevelFiveMedia [literary agency].I discovered at Amazon, that the working title had been transformed into The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. I also learned that it had been published in the UK by Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
Normally I would spend my time trying to establish the relationship between the blog and blook and see if I could pull together snippets from the blog and elsewhere to determine how the blook was fashioned. Unfortunately I couldn't find a search function on Keen's blog. [And to tell the truth, my recent illness has left me too tired to care much :-(] I did want to point out that Nicholas Brealey looks like fertile ground for ferreting blooks. After all, where there's one, there just might be another! The first title I'm going to check into is Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse)
by Paul Carter.
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