America’s Next Best Book Deal?
The Touchstone Books division of Simon & Schuster has teamed up with Media Predict to create Project Publish. This project is designed to identify who will have the next best book.
This is a good call to anyone who has a book they’d like published, or would like to keep an eye on potential author’s in order to see who might be the next best thing (and stock up on their novels).
To be frank, I think it’s an interesting idea but I don’t think it will generate the response they’re looking for. It seems like an attempt to capitlize on the “Reality” theme through the web. You can read more from the New York Times’ press release or from Media Predict’s Project Publish web page.
I think this is positive move to help authors gain more exposure to their work - I’m just undecided as to whether or not this will increase the literary bar.
