Comments on: Shady emails and comments about Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s new book, El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos: espacio, cuerpo y poder

By: See Also… » What I hope will be the last thing I ever have to post about Sergio Rivera-Ayala

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:08:56 +0000

[...] about Sergio Rivera-Ayala and the odd emails and blog comments that Iris Jastram received (see Shady emails and comments about Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s new book, El discurso colonial en textos nov… and Email from Sergio Rivera-Ayala about the spam and blog comments promoting his book) I held back [...]

By: Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s Book Strikes (out) Again

Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s Book Strikes (out) Again — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:51:55 +0000

[...] then the comments on that post got really interesting really fast? And remember when Steve Lawson shed a little light on the less savory aspects of those comments? And then remember when Steve later got unpleasant [...]

By: See Also… » Outflanked

See Also… » Outflanked — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:44:43 +0000

[...] you are wondering why this is funny, see this post and this other [...]

By: Mohadoha

Mohadoha — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:37:04 +0000

While I agree that pretending to be a student isn't the best strategy, it shows how desperate more and more authors are finding it hard to be read or just available on shelves and feeling pressure from publishers to do their bit. As an another with her first scholarly book out, I have reached out to libraries because I don't have the advantage of fiction/trendy subjects.

That said: nothing means you can insult someone's profession or blog topics. After all what else is free media exchange about?

By: See Also… » Email from Sergio Rivera-Ayala about the spam and blog comments promoting his book

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:25:10 +0000

[...] Ah, what fun. I got an email today from Dr. Rivera-Ayala that was cc’d to my Dean and the President of my college. I thought you’d like to see the exchange, starting with the email I sent to Sergio Rivera-Ayala after my last post about the strange emails and comments about his book. [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:44:09 +0000

This is happening at public libraries as well. All of a sudden I have been getting “requests” from “patrons” to buy books that don’t seem to actually exist (?) or are of questionable “quality.” Then our consortium sent out an email saying that this was happening all over the area.

As for the “legitimate” marketing that is being done by self-published or small-press-published authors who are merely trying to sell their work, well, I’m not sure what to think of that. I mean, yes, it is SPAM, but isn’t most advertising? Every once in a while I find something worth buying….

By: Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:04:08 +0000

We’ve gotten requests supposedly from faculty members on our request form. (Someone says they are Prof. YYY requesting book ZZZ). We can often spot the fake request, since the comments about why we need to book are a little “off kilter”. We take all requests with a grain of salt, no matter who the requester is.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:31:05 +0000

ALA Council Member, Aaron Dobbs, ladies and gentlemen. (I can’t think of anything more incriminating than that!)

By: Aaron the Librarian

Aaron the Librarian — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:22:30 +0000

My name is Steve and I publish this blog. Who are you to tell me how to comment?

Oh, and please don't publish everything you know about me... that would take far to long...

-Steve :-)'

By: Jenica Rogers-Urbanek

Jenica Rogers-Urbanek — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:37:45 +0000

Agreed, agreed, agreed. Communications that would have been completely unacceptable in a pen-and-paper environment have somehow become commonplace, and it's just not okay.