Book Deals
It seems that there are book deals out there for bloggers who hit the right notes. My post of a few days ago about Baghdad Burning received a comment from Arancaytar telling me that Baghdad Burning will be published in book form - an idea that had crossed my mind, since the writing is so excellent. I found another blog with a Amazon book listing, also. This blog, Surviving Grady is another of Bloggers “Blogs of Note” weblogs. I’m not a baseball fan, but I appreaciate fanatacism in its many wondrous forms. The Amazon review says
Surviving Grady is a raucous, off-the-wall recounting of the Red Sox’ drive toward baseball immortality, from the slightly askew perspective of writers Tim McCarney (Sky Ape) and Tom Deady as they experience the Red Sox’ historic championship.
The writing is clear and entertaining. There are lots of photographs. And you get the feeling from reading this blog that you might even catch some of the fever yourself if you hung out with these guys.
Seems interesting that publishers are marketing stuff that people can read for free on the internet. What’$ that all about?
Chris L wrote,
This seems to be happening more and more on all matter of topics: political, recreational, and technological. Although you can get much (or all) of the same information from the blogs, the market shows that people still like the physicality of books and they like to read on paper (this whole area is one of great interest to me, tied as it is directly to one of my many internal contradictions)… plus the bloggers will often expand on their topics and perhaps provide some form of meta-commentary at the same time.
I also like some other ideas in this vein: software that turns a wiki into a print ready PDF, or other automated ways to repurpose and repackage the content in forms that make sense for other environments and purposes.
PS how about turning on full text in your RSS feeds?
Link | February 2nd, 2005 at 1:02 pm