Blooky Here
As if we didn't have enough horrid sounding words built around "blog," now we have to contend with blooks...books derived from blogs.
Self-publishing company Lulu.com has even inaugurated an award, The Blooker (any resemblance to a much more prestigious British award is purely intentional, and potentially litigable), to promote this genre. According to Lulu, whose objectivity in this matter is, to put it politely, suspect, "Blooks are the world's fastest-growing new kind of book and an exciting new stage in the life cycle of content, if not a whole new category of content." Do tell.
Link via Bookslut, via which we also findthis saucy little article about the new "anti-blogs," and an observation that the new editors of four Serious Literary Magazines are apparently zombies. As in "are you Night of the Living Dead in there?"* zombies.
*OK, more extra credit stuff. What's the origin of this quote?
Technorati tags: Blooks | Repulsive Blog-Derived Non-Words
Rachel, I'm getting a great mental picture here, thanks to your comment! ;-)
Posted by: Eric at April 4, 2006 07:01 PMAbout the publisher
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Blook sounds funny. Almost like a something a chicken would say!
Posted by: Rachel at April 4, 2006 06:11 PM