Adam Bellow, son of novelist Saul Bellow, writes in the Columbia Journalism Review of his vision to help foster the rebirth of pamphlets -- 4-by-6 inch, $4 booklets with an average of 60 to 80 pages. He sees pamphlets (sold on the internet in pdf form and then sent as bound hard copy) as an affordable, more permanent way to disseminate ideas to both blog readers and the general public.
Me: I think it's a fascinating idea. Bellow is right. We are in the midst of enormous intellectual ferment. Inexpensive booklets produced from blogs or by bloggers -- and published by Bellow -- is intriguing.