> The "book internet" still exists Amanda Palmer recently wrote this about her and Neil Gaiman: neil and i, and many other bloggers, have discussed this with

> The "book internet" still exists Amanda Palmer recently wrote this about her and Neil Gaiman: neil and i, and many other bloggers, have discussed this with more and more worry lately. we used to have blogs, on our websites. we'd link to them. people read them. LOTS of people read them. this was in the days before twitter, bookface, instagram, tumblr, etc. it was when you woke up in the morning and read people's blogs and posted thoughtful comments and it felt like the internet was ripe with possibility and freedom. it's going away. even though we both have far larger fanbases than we did ten years ago, our blog readerships have been halved, quartered, more. I don't have any reliable statistics, but that would suggest that the "book internet" may be shrinking.