A blook is a printed book that contains or is based on content from a
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...
.
The first printed blook was ''User Interface Design for Programmers'', by
Joel Spolsky, published by Apress on June 26, 2001, based on his blog ''
Joel on Software''. An early blook was written by Tony Pierce in 2002 when he compiled selected posts from his one-year-old blog and turned the collection into a book called ''Blook''. The name came about when Pierce held a contest, asking his readers to suggest a title for the book.
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis (born July 15, 1954) is an American journalist, associate professor, Public Speaking, public speaker and former Television criticism, television critic. He advocates the Open Web and argues that there are many social and personal bene ...
of ''BuzzMachine'' won the contest and subsequently invented the term. Pierce went on to publish two other blooks, ''How To Blog'' and ''Stiff''.
Print-on-demand publisher
Lulu
Lulu may refer to:
Companies
* LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer
* Lulu.com, an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer
* Lulu Hypermarket, a retail chain in Asia
* Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, a C ...
inaugurated the
Lulu Blooker Prize
Lulu Press, Inc., doing business under trade name Lulu, is an online print-on-demand, self-publishing, and distribution platform. By 2014, it had issued approximately two million titles.
The company's founder is Red Hat co-founder Bob Young (bu ...
for blooks, which was first awarded in 2006. The printed blook phenomenon is not limited to self-publishing. Several popular bloggers have signed book deals with major publishers to write books based on their blogs. However, some publishers are starting to realize that blog popularity does not translate to sales. Blog to book conversions via traditional publishing houses still happen, but the focus has shifted from blog popularity to content quality.
"Blook" was short-listed in 2006 for inclusion in the
Oxford English Dictionary
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...
and was a runner-up for Word of the Year.
See also
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Digital library
A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital resources that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital ...
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List of digital library projects
This is a list of digital library projects.
See also
* Bibliographic database
* List of academic databases and search engines
* List of online databases
* List of online encyclopedias
* List of open-access journals
* List of search engines
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Dynabook
The KiddiComp concept, envisioned by Alan Kay in 1968 while a PhD candidate, and later developed and described as the Dynabook in his 1972 proposal "A personal computer for children of all ages", outlines the requirements for a conceptual porta ...
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Elibrary
HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English. It was headquarte ...
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Expanded Books
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Networked book
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Webserial
* OpenReader Consortium
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."
It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital li ...
References
Blogging
Books by type
Documents
Paper products
Web fiction
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