Have you got a Blook in you?: Bloggers Moving into Print.
There is a growing financial motivation for entering the blogosphere. Research into the motivations of bloggers has previously focused on intangible rewards such as influencing public opinion, sharing information with friends and family, and exercising creative skills. However, many bloggers now adm...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 95 - 101 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2009
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=37130867&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 37130867 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14479516 17TF jtl: International Journal of the Book issn: 14479516 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2009 vid: 6 iid: 2 pid: 22359 pub: Common Ground Research Networks artinfo: ui: 37130867 10.18848/1447-9516/CGP/v06i02/36745 ppf: 95 ppct: 6 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 312KB tig: atl: Have you got a Blook in you?: Bloggers Moving into Print. aug: au: Pedersen, Sarah affil: Robert Gordon University, Aberdeenshire, UK su: Blogs Motivation (Psychology) Income Information sharing Author-publisher relations Publishing sug: subj: Blogs Motivation (Psychology) Income Information sharing Author-publisher relations Publishing ab: There is a growing financial motivation for entering the blogosphere. Research into the motivations of bloggers has previously focused on intangible rewards such as influencing public opinion, sharing information with friends and family, and exercising creative skills. However, many bloggers now admit that one of their reasons for writing a blog is the hope that it will generate income. While most expect such income to come from sales of advertising around their blogs, a growing number of bloggers are seeking income, and fame, through the paper publication of their entire blog. Blogs which have been successfully published as books include Belle de Jour: Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl; Tom Reynolds' Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance (taken from his blog 'Random Acts of Reality'); and The World According to Mimi Smartypants. In spring 2007 press coverage in the UK focused on the £70,000 book deal given to ex-Sunday Times education correspondent Judith O'Reilly for her blog Wife in the North. This paper investigates the 'blook', the name given to such blog-books. Who is publishing them? Who is writing them? How well do they sell? And what happens afterwards - do the authors carry on writing their blogs or do they attempt to become print-only authors - and are publishers interested in a second book? pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of International Journal of the Book is the property of Common Ground Research Networks and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: International Journal of the Book holder: Common Ground Research Networks dt: @attributes: year: 2009 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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