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Aug. 9th, 2006 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseFor Hannah's dad (cause he likes Spider, right?):
"The Advertising column in Business Day on Thursday, about videos used to promote books, misidentified the person who wrote the lyrics for a song included in the book “Variable Star,” and misidentied the person who will sing that song in the video being prepared to publicize the book. Spider Robinson, one of the authors of the book, wrote the lyrics, not David Crosby, who wrote the music. And it is Mr. Robinson who will perform the song, not Mr. Crosby. The article also omitted one of the authors of “Variable Star.” In addition to Mr. Robinson, it was written by Robert A. Heinlein."
The article it refers to, though, may be of interest to others as well. Publishers Try to Sell Words With Moving Pictures (and if you don't have a nytimes login, you can go to bugmenot, though really, there are worst things in the world to have than a NYTimes login. It's about movies, both 'ads' and more instructional/amusing clips that are being used with books as promotional tie-ins. It's interesting, especially given the article I read recently (sorry, no clicky, but it was probably boingboing) that talked about the downside of the increased interest in YouTube and such among advertisers.
"The Advertising column in Business Day on Thursday, about videos used to promote books, misidentified the person who wrote the lyrics for a song included in the book “Variable Star,” and misidentied the person who will sing that song in the video being prepared to publicize the book. Spider Robinson, one of the authors of the book, wrote the lyrics, not David Crosby, who wrote the music. And it is Mr. Robinson who will perform the song, not Mr. Crosby. The article also omitted one of the authors of “Variable Star.” In addition to Mr. Robinson, it was written by Robert A. Heinlein."
The article it refers to, though, may be of interest to others as well. Publishers Try to Sell Words With Moving Pictures (and if you don't have a nytimes login, you can go to bugmenot, though really, there are worst things in the world to have than a NYTimes login. It's about movies, both 'ads' and more instructional/amusing clips that are being used with books as promotional tie-ins. It's interesting, especially given the article I read recently (sorry, no clicky, but it was probably boingboing) that talked about the downside of the increased interest in YouTube and such among advertisers.
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Date: 2006-08-10 01:25 am (UTC)Spider Robinson is just a pseudonym for...Shakespeare!
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Date: 2006-08-10 01:27 am (UTC)