Month: March 2006

The New York Times reports previously-mentioned blog publishing software BookSmart, which will download and reformat your blog into book form, print and help you sell copies to your fawning blog readers and internet admirers.

Pricing for printed versions of your book from Blurb starts at $30 for an 8-by-10-inch full-color hardcover volume with dust jacket and up to 40 pages. A book of up to 80 pages is $3 more. (Blurb plans to eventually offer paperback editions selling for about 30 percent less than hardcover.) Authors will also be able to set up online bookstores through Blurb’s Web site.

BookSmart’s not yet available to the public, but it’s uptake will be interesting to see. While the thought of a million muffled hyperlinks subjected to the non-clickable imprisonment of actual paper makes me sad, self-publishing blogs jives with the whole scrapbooking/DIY media phenomenon. Would you ever bookify your weblog? Or is it a terrible idea all around? Let us know what you think in the comments or at tips at lifehacker.com.

 
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