Blog to book

The Latest Blog-to-Book Deal

Postcards From Yo Momma, a website that runs user-submitted e-mails and chat transcripts from real moms, is being turned into a hardcover work of literature by the people at Hyperion, publishing next April.

No details on the $$$, but rumor has it it’s a “comfortable sum.”

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'Stuff White People Like' Book Sold to Random House for At Least $350,000

The Canadian guy who runs [the Web site Stuff White People Like] just sold a book to Random House for an advance that publishing insiders said had reached at least $350,000 when it was at auction last week. Unclear how high it ended up climbing, but frankly, $350,000 is already a staggering sum for a paperback inspired by a faddish blog that launched just over two months ago.

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