The New York Times reports that two WordPress.com bloggers, Stuff White People Like and I Can Has Cheezburger, have received book deals. “Stuff” apparently got a $300k advance. The books based on their blogs are due out this Fall. Congrats!
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Toni
Allan 7:57 am on April 1, 2008 Permalink |
Toni,
That’s great News!!!
Especially when both these blogs are hosted at WordPress (VIP or otherwise) and not a standalone website, backed by a Media House.
Just goes to show the people power amongst WordPress readers.
“Read and pass it on for others to read”, maybe the ultimate mantra, that helped this deal through.
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