Comments on: BlogHer Blog to Book redux

By: Suw

Suw — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:46:30 +0000

Hi! I’d ask: What strategies would you use to make the best out of the promotional opportunities presented by releasing a full Creative Commons licensed edition of the book? Several authors and publishers have put their full book online under CC, and have had great success with it, so what’s the best way to do it?

By: pve design

pve design — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:34:40 +0000

hey, knock-em dead – one thing is that blogging (for me) is a passion and a brilliant connectivity to a like minded group with always something to say.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:04:31 +0000

These are awesome points! Thanks to all of you for taking the time to submit them to me. I’m getting lots of good panel fodder!

By: Cass Nevada

Cass Nevada — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:31:23 +0000

How do you know if there’s anything worth gleaning from your blog? Sure, you have some readers, and sure, you yourself find it interesting–but is any of it worth taking to the next step?

By: paulmayson

paulmayson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:17:27 +0000

Jeffrey Krames, author/editor/ex-publisher, has a blog with a bunch of cool “insider info.” He just started it, but for business book info, it’s pretty killer: http://jeffreykrames.com/blog. Disclaimer – I helped him put the site together (despite that – it’s still good). Maybe you can get some ideas there?

By: Soultravelers3

Soultravelers3 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:37:01 +0000

I think this is fabulous and I hope the information will be available here or somewhere after BlogHer for those of us that are interested, but can not make it.

I would love to hear information about taking a successful e-book and expanding it to make it a successful hard cover book. Is that even possible or worth doing?

I have lots of people interested in a book about our experiences and all the information that we are gathering on our slow world tour as a family, but I am thinking an ebook is the easiest way to start with the time I have available. I can get that done and available much more quickly with the important basics.

My idea is to then follow that with an expanded hard cover book. I know others that have had great success with e-books, so wonder if this might be a questions that others are wondering about.

Thanks! I am sure you will do great. Wish I could be there.

By: Wise Diva

Wise Diva — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:32:01 +0000

Oh good luck on the panel moderating! I have a question: literary agents, good idea? If so, when? After you have self-published “successfully”? What do they think is the difference between a blogger and a book author? THANKS

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:46:54 +0000

Yay! Can’t wait to see you!

I know you and I have talked about this before, but I’d love to hear more about making a realistic prediction of how much time to set aside to write a book and how to prepare for the project. I’m still not at a point where I am ready for this much of a time commitment, but I’m getting closer. So Ellen, help me figure out when I am ready to finally work on writing my book!

By: Lisa Lamb

Lisa Lamb — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:47:56 +0000

Ok here is my question to throw into the panel…

have they considered with the emerging e-reader devices gaining popularity – how this may affect the existing revenue model? The transition away from traditional book reading may follow in suit what the music industry and now video industry is seeing with downloadable entertainment.