Is a blog a book?

[Shanna_redwind]

I read through the Book/Not a Book section, and I just wasn't sure. Maybe it's just that it's late and I'm tired.

Is a novel length completed story written in a blog considered a book?

[Paula]

I would wait for rivka (head librarian)to comment on this one.

I personally don't think blogs are considered published by GR standards, because then we would have to consider any short blog post a short story ( fiction or non fiction) and then evetryone will be adding their daily blogs as stories but that s my opinion.

I remember writing some thing similar in another thread but cannot find it to see what else was written about it.

[Paula]

Had a re read of old threads that rivka has commented on

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Looks like it can stay, we have allowed short stories on blogs to remain so a full length novel should get to stay

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Does the author define it as a book? Is it a single item on the blog, or a series of entries?

[Shanna_redwind]

She has several novel length stories and a few novella length ones, each one with a dedicated blog. The story is in a series of entries, each one of which she calls a chapter. The only other posts on each blog are a few that go across all of her stories detailing updates to the stories. There's not many off topic posts like that, and she's not doing that anymore because she has a separate blog dedicated to updates to the stories and her life.

Not all are finished, but I was wondering about adding the ones that are finished. I personally consider them books, but I wasn't sure about goodreads.

I'm not sure that the author ever uses the phrase book. She just calls them stories.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

They sound pretty borderline, at best.

[Shanna_redwind]

Ok, I won't bother. Thanks.