http://seattlest.com/2006/01/20/book_shopping_with_bill_maher.php All comments for Book Shopping With Bill Maher en-us 2009 seattle_katelyn Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kbhackett@gmail.com kbhackett@gmail.com 60 http://seattlest.com/2006/01/20/book_shopping_with_bill_maher.php#comment-162573 http://seattlest.com/2006/01/20/book_shopping_with_bill_maher.php#comment-162573 Comments Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:37:56 -0800 <p>As an aside, the "fishbowl" concept comes from a longstanding practice at Amazon when artists (typically authors or musicians) would come in and give a reading/perform a set for a small group of Amazon editors and collected folks. I saw quite a few great bands that way, with only about 20 other people in attendance. Crashing the Phantom Planet fishbowl to get Jason Schwarzman's autograph was a high point. It sounds like they are essentially just going to be broad(pod?)casting those publicly now...I'm actually a bit suprised they hadn't tried to do so sooner.</p>