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Crit Pick: THE REVOLUTION WAS TELEVISED

The man credited with “changing the nature of television criticism” by Slate, Alan Sepinwall, recently published a new book, The Revolution Was Televised. After Michiko Kakutani’s glowing review in yesterday’s New York Times, it rose to #133 on Amazon Sales Rankings. It has also been covered by Time magazine, The New Yorker, the Hollywood Reporter and USA Today.

But, no libraries own it.

Why?

Sepinwall chose to self-published the book. It appears to be available only through Amazon and hasn’t been reviewed by library publications.

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
Alan Sepinwall
Retail Price: $16.99
Paperback: 306 pages
Publisher: What’s Alan Watching? – (2012-11-21)
ISBN / EAN: 0615718299 / 9780615718293

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2 Responses to “Crit Pick: THE REVOLUTION WAS TELEVISED”

  1. laurie Says:
    December 7th, 2012 at 11:29 am

    I beg to differ.
    WorldCat shows 8 holding libraries.
    NPL placed it on order just this week.
    Why, you ask? Because we have savvy librarians on the front lines.

  2. Nora Rawlinson Says:
    December 7th, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    We didn’t mean to imply that there are ANY non-savvy librarians out there, but rather that keeping up with self-pubbed titles is a big challenge. When we checked, WorldCat showed no libraries owned it; that’s changing (you mention 8, but curiously, WorldCat now lists only 5 in the U.S. plus one in New Zealand).