11 June 2015- by Elizabeth Heritage via Booksellers NZ
As part of The Read’s ongoing exploration of book reviewing in Aotearoa, we now turn our attention to New Zealand book blogs.
As part of The Read’s ongoing exploration of book reviewing in Aotearoa, we now turn our attention to New Zealand book blogs.
First, how is a blog defined? The NZ Oxford Dictionary defines the word "blog" as a shortened version of weblog, “a personal website, on which an individual or group of users records their experiences and opinions, links to other sites, etc., on a regular basis.” Wikipedia expands on this: “More recently multi-author blogs (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited … A majority are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes blogs from other, static websites. Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; some function as more personal online diaries; others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company.”
For this article I spoke to writers of many different kinds of blogs: some written independently, some written as part of a person’s employment; some with commissioned content from others (paid and unpaid), some written entirely by one author; some featuring formal essays, creative writing and professional criticism, some devoted to casual chatter; all of them driven by a love of books and a desire to contribute to the cultural conversation.
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