{"id":138,"date":"2006-05-14T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/?p=138"},"modified":"2006-05-14T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T03:45:00","slug":"pod-and-ebooks-jewels-vs-dross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2006\/05\/14\/pod-and-ebooks-jewels-vs-dross\/","title":{"rendered":"POD and Ebooks: Jewels vs. dross?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game designer Matt Snyder <a href=\"http:\/\/matt-snyder.livejournal.com\/75078.html\">asked on his LJ<\/a> if there is a place that filters out the gems of POD and ebooks from the vast seas of horrible crap.  Only he worded it more nicely than that.  <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been pointed toward <a ref=\"http:\/\/girlondemand.blogspot.com\/\">Pod-dy Mouth<\/a>, but I think what he&#8217;s looking for is something that involves informal peer review and a lot of opinions (the way The Forge does for indie RPGs), rather than just one person&#8217;s reviews.  I figured I&#8217;d ask here, in hopes that one of the fine writers (or other publishing professionals) that has me friended might know of a resource like that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game designer Matt Snyder asked on his LJ if there is a place that filters out the gems of POD and ebooks from the vast seas of horrible crap. Only he worded it more nicely than that. He&#8217;s been pointed toward Pod-dy Mouth, but I think what he&#8217;s looking for is something that involves informal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/2006\/05\/14\/pod-and-ebooks-jewels-vs-dross\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POD and Ebooks: Jewels vs. dross?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/of2minds.org\/michael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}