...today, Kelly at Stacked wrote about the recent ALA convention in Anaheim and about the movement of ARCs out of said convention:
It's not going to be easy to find a solution to this, but something needs to be done. I do not for a second believe that all non-librarian/non-teacher/non-ALA members who blog are bad people. What I am saying, though, is those few rotten apples are spoiling this for EVERYONE, and they're spoiling it for people who are working hard, who should be able to treat themselves to something they are interested in, be it an ARC or be it having a second to talk with a publishing rep.
It's a thoughtful post, and the conversation in the comments is (mostly) thoughtful, measured, and civil.
The same can not be said of what went down on Twitter.
There were bright spots, of course.
Me? I avoided the whole thing by playing Kingdom Rush.
This is in keeping with some of the appalling behavior I saw at BEA. People had battle plans. I saw bloggers tell each other "grab everything you can and sort it out later." I saw one put all the books she didn't want into one tote bag and THROW IT IN THE TRASH. I saw tote bags of abandoned books all over the place (I guess I should be glad they weren't thrown away?)
Posted by: Diana Peterfreund | 29 June 2012 at 02:26 PM
Wow--I can't believe the bad behavior! C'mon, book lovers--let's act like the classy folk we are! Okay, that most of us are ;-)
Posted by: Ilanawaters | 29 June 2012 at 04:22 PM