Book of Tweets Is No Big Feat

It takes very little work to put together a book nowadays, Gawker's Ryan Tate observes. He slams former colleague Nick Douglas for collecting a five-figure fee to "write" Twitter Wit, a book of his favorite tweets. Douglas retorts: "Reading a thousand jokes is like watching five hours of porn."

"It sounds somehow even lazier than making a book out of your mom's email messages, a scheme hatched up, perhaps not coincidentally, by another Gawker writer," Tate quips.
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