Welcome to Omnivoracious.com
Welcome to our new blog. Depending on where you read that sentence, it may or may not make sense. If it's on Amazon Daily or the Amazon Books Blog, it probably won't, since we editors have been blogging about books on Amazon for well over a year. If you've found us already at our new home at www.omnivoracious.com, though, you'll understand, since this, I think, is post #5 over there (unless somebody else beats me to the "save" button).
In a sense, we're going to have two homes now. We'll do our blogging over at Omnivoracious, but our posts will also be piped into the usual place in Amazon Daily, so if you'd like to keep reading us on whatever path you've worn, you can keep doing that. Or you can bookmark or RSS Omnivoracious and read us right at the source. The only real difference in reading us on the Amazon site is that when you click on the title of a post to go to the permalink, you'll be sent to the post on Omnivoracious.
Why a new blog (or why the old blog in a new place)? We'd like to reach people outside the Amazon universe more easily (which, it's true, assumes that there is anyone outside the Amazon universe at this point). And we also know that when you are on Amazon there are, give or take, about 100,000 blurbs and headlines and reviews and photos and videos and buy buttons and HDTVs and instant cocoas vying for your attention at any time, and, while we like being part of that mix, we also liked the idea of a place outside that exists by itself, more clearly, as a blog about books.
We also like the new identity of Omnivoracious. Why Omnivoracious? (It's sure not ease of spelling, but we hope you--or Google--will get used to it.) With a nod to one of our favorite authors, we think it captures what we like best about our jobs: we're always foraging hungrily for that next great book, wherever it comes from, whatever it's about (savage detectives or monkey portraits or strange loops). Every day, the mail brings piles of boxes and envelopes filled with books people want us to see, and even the hundredth and thousandth time opening them still brings a sense of possibility. (Also, if we don't open them we can't get out of our cubicle. Which was, in fact, my problem today.)
We'll be blogging as we have been at Omnivoracious, but we'll also take the opportunity to introduce some new things there, beginning with the photo at the top of that blog. It's a closeup of a bookshelf--mine, in fact--and you can click through to a list of all the books there. Every week, we'll feature a new bookshelf: a photo from a reader (submit yours as a .jpg to banner@omnivoracious.com), or an author, or someone else who writes for Omnivoracious. We also get to talk directly with some of the most interesting authors out there, and we're planning to make it easier for you to talk directly to them too. And, before long, we expect, in the spirit of our name, to expand our appetite to the newest movies and music too.
We're introducing (or reintroducing) ourselves over at Omnivoracious this week with posts about our favorite books of the year, and we'd love to hear your favorites too. --Tom
Alex on October 23, 2007 at 08:39 AM
Nice idea and I like the new design - I've been reading the Bookstore blog via RSS for a couple of months now, and it's always been enjoyable stuff. Good luck with Omnivoracious :)