There are a lot of books that started out as just humble little blogs. Our book this week, Hack by Melissa Plaut is one of them. She started her blog (newyorkhack.blogspot.com), where she documented all of her stories in her cab. Eventually, culminating them into a book.
So what makes a blog good enough to transition into a book? Well, as much as Alex and I love our blog, it would be a terrible book transition. We, for one, talk a ton about other books, so the copyright laws would be a nightmare to get around, and, let's face it, while there are some quirky fun things in here, and our reviews are (we like to believe) original, for the most part, our material is a lot of informational stuff we get from other places on the internets. We frequently (and loudly because we don't want people to sue us) proclaim that we pull our information from places like Wikipedia and the authors pages and the like.
However, Hyperbole and a Half, which we reviewed awhile back, transitioned very well into a book. Not only does was it original in the sense that it was taking from her every day experiences, it was also original in the sense that she was using a lot of poorly drawn web comics to get her point across about some very serious topics. It's probably why not only was her blog hugely popular, but so was her book.
What If?, the book we reviewed just last month, is another one that transitioned well. Though not a true blog to book, it was based off of Randall's web comic xkcd.
The key seems to be originality. A lot of the blog to book authors are talking about their lives, or putting their everyday lives down in the blogs. Their every day lives also happen to usually be pretty interesting.
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So what makes a blog good enough to transition into a book? Well, as much as Alex and I love our blog, it would be a terrible book transition. We, for one, talk a ton about other books, so the copyright laws would be a nightmare to get around, and, let's face it, while there are some quirky fun things in here, and our reviews are (we like to believe) original, for the most part, our material is a lot of informational stuff we get from other places on the internets. We frequently (and loudly because we don't want people to sue us) proclaim that we pull our information from places like Wikipedia and the authors pages and the like.
However, Hyperbole and a Half, which we reviewed awhile back, transitioned very well into a book. Not only does was it original in the sense that it was taking from her every day experiences, it was also original in the sense that she was using a lot of poorly drawn web comics to get her point across about some very serious topics. It's probably why not only was her blog hugely popular, but so was her book.
What If?, the book we reviewed just last month, is another one that transitioned well. Though not a true blog to book, it was based off of Randall's web comic xkcd.
The key seems to be originality. A lot of the blog to book authors are talking about their lives, or putting their everyday lives down in the blogs. Their every day lives also happen to usually be pretty interesting.
Don't forget to enter our contest!!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
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