That said, if you plan on releasing them on yearly intervals later I’d imagine some restriction might be necessary. Or, it could be that whenever a few topics seem to have come full circle or be in a good place for a book, you publish a book focused on those topics.
Yeah, it’s mostly that I don’t know of a great alternative mechanism for the Review. The Schelling nature of doing a review thing at the end of the year seems pretty strong, and having a year as the natural unit of review also seems really intuitive and nice.
I do think there is a good chance we are going to release some other books that are not part of the review cycle that are more centered around specific topics. But I really don’t know yet how to fit them into all of this, and whether they are part of the same series, or their branding, or whether they are going to happen at all.
It’s very possible that there’s kind of a “free pass” for the first 1-3 years, if this is a repeating thing, and then you could start adding the year. It’s not that big a deal if there are just 2-3 of these, but I imagine it will get to be annoying if there are 5+ (and by that time it will be more obvious if it’s an issue or not)
Yeah, I actually agree with this. Amazon has a field for “Series Title” that I want to fill in, of which this would be Vol. 1. Some obvious candidates for the series title are “Best of LessWrong” and “The LessWrong Review”. I don’t think there is much benefit to emphasizing a series title in the first entry of a series very much, but I think it makes sense to emphasize them more in future years, where they start actually doing anything. I still wouldn’t want to put the year into the title, because if we are usually going to release these 1.5-2 years afterward, people are inevitably going to get really confused about when the books were released.
Yeah, it’s mostly that I don’t know of a great alternative mechanism for the Review. The Schelling nature of doing a review thing at the end of the year seems pretty strong, and having a year as the natural unit of review also seems really intuitive and nice.
I do think there is a good chance we are going to release some other books that are not part of the review cycle that are more centered around specific topics. But I really don’t know yet how to fit them into all of this, and whether they are part of the same series, or their branding, or whether they are going to happen at all.
Yeah, I actually agree with this. Amazon has a field for “Series Title” that I want to fill in, of which this would be Vol. 1. Some obvious candidates for the series title are “Best of LessWrong” and “The LessWrong Review”. I don’t think there is much benefit to emphasizing a series title in the first entry of a series very much, but I think it makes sense to emphasize them more in future years, where they start actually doing anything. I still wouldn’t want to put the year into the title, because if we are usually going to release these 1.5-2 years afterward, people are inevitably going to get really confused about when the books were released.