Comments on: Is There A Book In Your Blog?

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:43:36 +0000

Yes, I guess it works both ways. K Thenmozhi.

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:42:39 +0000

Yes, you’re right PPC Management. As a writer, I like to think that I’d be able to rewrite and extend the content on my blog so that a book would be more than just what everyone’s already seen. Of course, that means it would take longer to produce it.

By: K.Thenmozhi

K.Thenmozhi — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:07:40 +0000

The blog can be conveniently converted into a book if you have the will. Or you can publish the contents of your book into a blog. The tips provided are good to attract the audience / readers alike

By: PPC Management

PPC Management — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:54:00 +0000

You have to be careful, though.

Many publishers consider content on a blog already published, so they consider the first rights to the work gone and the work is considered “previously published”. So you would be selling reprint rights which are less valuable.

The best thing to do is to build up a huge audience and platform using a blog, but then write a relevant book with content not previously published on the blog.

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:10:57 +0000

Yes, though there’s a challenge in making it into book form because of moving it from being interactive to linear. It’s a challenge I’m willing to meet. (one day, anyway).

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:52:10 +0000

Most bloggers can certainly write books even if they just use the content on their blog.

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:35:51 +0000

I’m so glad, Fitz. There’s more than one way of achieving a dream, as your comment shows.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:31:40 +0000

I guess it’s the reverse for my part. I originally planned to write and publish a book about personal finance and entrepreneurship.

But then I decided not to push through with it because whenever I see shelves of books about this being sold in our country, I get discouraged and lose confidence. I fear that no publisher won’t take my work because of “topic saturation” and my “anonymity.”

That’s when I decided to start a blog and transform my drafted “chapters” and “sections” into posts and personal entries. This way, I could earn some money while still “writing my book”. Hopefully someday, when I achieve decent traffic and popularity, I can easily convince publishers to consider my “book” and make my lifelong dream to see my work in hardbound print come true.

Thank you for this post. I found it motivational and inspiring.