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February 19, 2005

 

Book News via RSS

If you read a lot of blogs, you've either discovered RSS by now, or you are spending a lot of time visiting your favorite sites each day. If you don't know what RSS is, this site explains it pretty well. Basically, you can subscribe to the blogs that you like, and when the owner of a blog puts up a new post, it shows up in your "feed reader." No more checking and rechecking all your favorite blogs to see if anything new has been posted.

The really cool thing is that lots of newspaper sites have begun to jump on the RSS bandwagon in recent months, and now you can subscribe to their news feeds, most of which are divided into categories - world news, sports, etc. Why do we care about this at The Millions? Well, a handful of newspapers now have special feeds for their book sections, making it much easier to stay on top of all the reviews and book industry gossip. All the links listed below are to book news feeds. If you are already set up with a feed reader, go ahead and subscribe. If you aren't set up yet, I recommend using Bloglines or My Yahoo. Here are the feeds I've found so far:

There are quite a few publications that don't yet have book news feeds, but hopefully they will add them soon. If you spot any new book news feeds or know of any that I missed, leave a comment or send an email, and I'll add them to this post, which as time goes on will become a compendium of all the book news feeds out there. Finally, if you don't want to bother with setting up your own feed reader but still want to keep up on all the book news, you can go here.

Update:I found some tools to aggregate the book news feeds, and now the latest book news shows up in the column to the right. Enjoy!

- C. Max Magee @ 10:46 AM ~ comments: 0 ~ Links to this post

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