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November 15, 2011 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

2011 May Exceed 2009 Blog-to-Book Deal Numbers

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You may be bored with these posts, but I’m not. Today I started jumping up and down in my office when I discovered yet one more blog released as a book in October. Why? That brings the number of blog-to-books released by traditional publishers in October that I know about–there likely are more–to 6. That doesn’t sound like many. Multiply 6 by 12 months of the year, though, and you come up with 72.

Big deal, right?

Yes. Big deal.

At the height of the blog-to-book trend in 2009, experts claim 50-60 blog-to-book deals were made. If an average of 6 blogs are showing up in print form every month of 2011, the trend has exceeded the past heights.

Whoo-hoo!

While I was at Blog Word Expo in Los Angeles at the beginning of the month, Wiley had a booth there. They were featuring numerous bloggers’ books–bloggers who had been picked up by Wiley and asked to write a book. Most wrote a book that consisted of partially blogged material.  However, Wiley isn’t the only publisher looking for test marketed book ideas. After all, that’s what a successful blog is–a test marketed book idea.

For instance, the book I came across today was published by Gotham. David McRaney is the creator of the WordPress.com blog You Are Not So Smart. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself was, as I said, released last month. Adams Media, Betterway Books, NAL Trade, Gallery Books, Writer’s Digest Books (my publisher), and Chicago University Press have turned blogs into printed books –to name just a few publishers just off the top of my head.

So, what are you waiting for?  In fact, don’t wait any longer. Start blogging you book today. Write a post a day…or five days a week…and get that book blogged in a year or less.

Gonna take me up on the challenge? Tell me about your book idea…

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  1. Sacita says

    November 30, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Yes! I am taking you up on this challenge!

  2. Nina says

    November 30, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    Yeah! Let me know how it goes.

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