Unauthorized A Feast for Crows Analysis - www.ezboard.com

November 3, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

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GRRM fan guru Ran wrote:

Unauthorized A Feast for Crows Analysis - www.ezboard.com:
He is posting chapters up at alt.fan.grrm. By the looks of it, it seems to me that you’ll find much more value (and at no cost) here, so save your money. Perhaps for fans who are unconnected to the Internet and the fan community on it, such an unauthorized work has some value, and I’m supposing they’re the target audience for the book.


I replied:

That is absolutely correct. The number of people who are fans, for pretty much any media topic, is much greater than the number of people who participate in online discussion groups related to that topic. The point of these books (we also did ones on Harry Potter and Dan Brown) is to provide fangroup-like value to general readers who are not already deeply immersed in discussion groups.

That being said, there is an intangible but real added value to having “stuff” about one of your favorite authors embodied in a nice-looking, compact book. People who purchase the books generally seem to come away happy.

Feel free to tune in at alt.fan.grrm. I may post some chapters here at some point too.

Fred

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