We here at Jen Bekman Projects are social media on steroids. We've got three blogs: (Jen Bekman Gallery, 20x200, and what you're reading now at Hey Hot Shot), a tumblr site, three Facebook pages, three twitter feeds and who knows what else is on the horizon. Sometimes we can cross-dialog well with our audiences of our various projects that might have different agendas and interests from one another.

And that's why I'm writing now, fellow photographers and photo lovers, to alert you to the two-part discussion on photobooks that's been going on over at the 20x200 blog this week.

The first post tackles the changes in point-of-view, production models and consumer trends in the world of photo and art books. We examined both the alarm being displayed by purveyers of traditional publishing models at the sweeping changes in consumer trends and funding for production, as well as the liberty and opportunity to be found by other publishers small and large to be explored during this moment of flux.

The second part looks at what artists near-and-dear to us have been thinking/making/doing in response to this changing landscape: we take a look at recent book work by Shen Wei, Jonathon Gitelson, Chad Muthard, Austin Kleon and William Powhida.

Since being savvy and informed is the best weapon anyone can have in their artistic arsenals, we thought you might want to head on over to our sister site and check out the conversation.