Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Millions


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 06:52, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

The Millions

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Doesn't need millions of reliable sources, but more than just one (Vulture) would be good. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:51, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
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Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The article notes: "When the Millions launched in 2003, it was in every way an artifact of its moment: a labor of love with a blogspot.com URL, dedicated to one man’s love of literature. By day, C. Max Magee worked in a West Hollywood bookstore; by night (or whenever), he was the sole proprietor of the Internet’s newest hub for literary discussion, where year-in-reading lists and enthusiastic reviews ran alongside short, casual posts like this one:"  The book notes: "A typical example of the self-made nature of blogs is "The Millions" a blog about books and literary life created by C. Max Magee in 2003, who is, according to his own page, writing "about the stock market for indieresearch.com". The postings reveal the characteristic mixture of a very strong emphasis on personal experiences and viewpoints on the one side and an extensive practice of intertextual opening up by way of hyperlinks on the other. After anecdotally discussing his reading preferences at age twenty and the way they were changed by a friend in one post, the author's next post might be a link to a list of links to other blogs, webzines or commercial sites that offer any news or reviews the author thinks interesting."  The article provides 123 words of coverage about the subject. The article notes: "The Millions (www.themillions.com) started out as a space for one guy, Max Magee, to keep track of his reading. "Six years on, it is now a seriously comprehensive blog that offers personal opinions on books, arts and culture, as well as prizes, features, columns and book reviews from an array of in-house writ-ers." My favourite part of this site is the feature The Future of the Book, which includes a number of articles looking at the rise of the digital age and the increase in use of digital books and media (of particular interest for me, someone work-ing in a library, as I get asked all the time about my thoughts on our downloadable collection and whether it is ruining the future of libraries.)"  The article notes: "As the commercial landscape for books continues to shift, a prominent literary web site, The Millions, is celebrating its 10th anniversary by getting into the publishing game. On Tuesday, the site unveiled its first e-book, “Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever,” by Mark O’Connell."  The article notes: "The literary website the Millions is getting into the e-book business: Starting Tuesday, it will publish e-books that are available on Amazon.com, in Apple’s iBookstore and at Barnes & Noble. While its website is about books, authors and publishing, its e-books will move into other realms. The Millions’ debut is “Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame and the History of the Worst Thing Ever” by Mark O’Connell. It’s a long essay that begins with the botched Jesus fresco repair that looked like a monkey, moves to Susan Sontag’s “On Camp” and goes on from there."</li> <li> The article notes: "The Millions online magazine already earns a million hugs from a grateful literary nation for its annual Great Book Preview, which is posted each January and looks ahead to the most promising titles of the forthcoming calendar year. Now editor C. Max Magee, novelist Emily St. John Mandel and the rest of the Millions book crew have given us "The Great Second-Half 2011 Book Preview," thumbnail previews of 66 titles, with scheduled release dates through the end of 2011 and into 2012."</li> <li>Less significant coverage:<ol> <li> The article notes: "The Millions, which publishes three or four reviews each week, started out in 2003 as a personal writing project for editor C. Max Magee and has evolved into a book-oriented website with a staffof a dozen writers and dozens of guest writers. "We reach more than a million people a year," Magee says. "We've been lucky to get links from our fellow online magazines in the culture space, like the Daily Beast. We'll cover anything that piques our interest, from the very mainstream to the very obscure.""</li> <li> The article notes: "The Millions, an online magazine, has a great article titled "Confessions of a Book Pirate." In it, C. Max Magee interviews an anonymous pirate, who explains why he uploads and downloads unauthorized copies of electronic books using Usenet groups and torrent sites."</li> <li> The article notes: "The essay appears in a new book from Soft Skull Press titled “The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books,” co-edited by Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee, both of whom are affiliated with the indispensable literary site, The Millions. They have kindly pointed us toward a video trailer for the book, which we now point you toward."</li> <li> The article notes: "Like the LARB, the Millions exists online only. The site was created in 2003 by C Max Magee and publishes features on "books, arts and culture" as well as reviews." LARB refers to the Los Angeles Review of Books.</li> <li> The article notes: "As year-end reading lists go, you can’t find a more insightful and valuable collection than The Year in Reading from The Millions. Rather than seduce time-strapped readers and holiday shoppers with a gift-giving cheat sheet (5 eBooks for Stepdads for Under $5), The Millions asks their “favorite writers, thinkers, and readers” to share the highlights they recently checked-off their reading list. “Their charge was to name, from all the books they read this year, the one(s) that meant the most to them, regardless of publication date.” The participants they’ve worked with over the last eight years represent a publishing pantheon, from Pulitzer Prize winners to first-time novelists. For a better look into this legacy, Electric Literature interviewed C. Max Magee, the man behind The Millions."</li> </ol></li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow The Millions to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 08:36, 13 June 2022 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep per Cunard. — Mainly 16:20, 13 June 2022 (UTC)


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