Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal

Posted on April 6, 2008

We see more and more stories about blogging with a paragraph like this:

Random House announces that it has purchased the rights to a book by
the blog’s founder, Christian Lander, an Internet copy writer. The
price, according to a source familiar with the deal but not authorized
to discuss the total, was about $300,000, a sum that many in the
publishing and blogging communities believe is an astronomical amount
for a book spawned from a blog, written by a previously unpublished
author.

Read the full story at The New York Times Web Site

That’s right. An author got $300,000 because of his blog.

Need any more reason to start blogging about you, your expertise, and your book?

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Comments

2 Responses to “Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal”

@CoachDeb (Check me out!) (1 comments) on April 6th, 2008 9:44 pm

yep - that’s a VERY good reason to blog!
niiiiiice!!!
btw: very resourceful blog you’ve got here
Warren!
Nice Tweeting with you on Twitter too!
@CoachDeb
Christy (Check me out!) (1 comments) on April 7th, 2008 5:41 am

Dear book publishers,

Please read my blog and give me a book deal.