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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
A friend of mine sent me a link to an article about blogs being turned into books: "Blooks" Are In Bloom I don't know . . . the entrepreneurs starting companies like Blogbooks.com and others feel there's a "built-in market"--is there? Am I being a dinosaur for feeling that this will mean even more stratification? 75,000 new online journals every day implies, to me, the old needle-in-a-haystack dilemma: many are called (or at least are hopeful) but damned few will be found. There are a few fascinating jewels that have come out of blogs, of course--though they seem mostly to deal with war and sex. Is there a market? Would the rest of you go in search of a blook?
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A friend of mine sent me a link to an article about blogs being turned into books: "Blooks" Are In Bloom I don't know . . . the entrepreneurs starting companies like Blogbooks.com and others feel there's a "built-in market"--is there? Am I being a dinosaur for feeling that this will mean even more stratification? 75,000 new online journals every day implies, to me, the old needle-in-a-haystack dilemma: many are called (or at least are hopeful) but damned few will be found. There are a few fascinating jewels that have come out of blogs, of course--though they seem mostly to deal with war and sex. Is there a market? Would the rest of you go in search of a blook?lmarley at 9:04:00 AM EDT Blog about this entry |
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I've also heard about blogs being turned into books, and I must admit that I don't really understand the fascination with the idea. Still, it's not unlike some books that have been built from the articles of newspaper columnists, whether their material be of a serious or comedic nature. I personally don't care for those books either, but I can see the similarities. Lord knows, my blog wouldn't work in a book format, but I suppose if someone took just my graphic comic strip with Frank, that might be a different story. I'd have to a darn lot of those comic entries, though... and I don't know that I'd be willing to put in the time.
Bill, the Wildcat
http://journals.aol.com/knightbek/TheWildcatsLair/
4/28/06 2:00 AM