"Publishers Worry Glut of Blogging Books Could Choke Sales" notes that the craze for "blooks" - blogs which become books - could be getting out of hand:
Penguin became the latest to jump on the bandwagon when it bought "La Petite Anglaise," the memoirs of Catherine Sanderson, who was fired by her company because of her blog, in one of the more hotly discussed acquisitions this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair...So, fellow writer, it's a trend. If you haven't got your own blog yet, and you're writing a book -- why haven't you got a blog?The price paid to Sanderson was not disclosed, but trade publications put it at around mid-six figures, a rich advance usually reserved for bestselling authors. The book is slated for release in spring 2008. Pearson Plc owns Penguin.
With publishers scouring blogs for anything they can convert into a book, it's one way to stay out of the slush pile. It's always better to have them coming to you. :-)
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