NYT business reporter Noam Cohen has the skinny on Doris Lessing‘s MySpace page, which is getting more friend requests than usual in the wake of her Nobel Prize for literature last week. Mind you, it’s not actually her page, but one created for her by a friend, since the newly appointed laureate doesn’t actually spend any time online. Even so, she had 258 friends this morning, roughly half of them acquired in the last week.
HarperCollins online marketing manager Jeff Yamaguchi shifts the conversation to the broader theme of author home pages: “If you are going to do it, you have to put some time into it,” he says. “You don’t have to do something every day, but it has to be a time commitment.” Even better, it would seem from Lessing’s example, if you can get a fan that you trust to do it for you!