While Ann Althouse considered turning her blog into a blook, Sally Goetsch posted about how she did it. [I didn't find the final result listed anywhere. Do you think she did all that work and then didn't publish?]
In her October 30, 2005, post, "Blog + Book = Opportunity" she wrote:
If you want to design and format your own blook, you’ll need to spend some time cutting and pasting. How long this will take depends on the amount of material you have. As of this writing, my FileSlinger(TM) Backup Blog has some 136 posts, mostly fairly long (600-1200 words), for a total of about 65,000 words. It took me about two hours to copy and paste the contents from the blog pages into the Word template I’d adapted from Dan Poynter’s New Book Model example, and another couple of hours to tweak the formatting to something more appropriate for a 6” x 9” book. Because the blog is based on a weekly column, I’ll have at least 9 more entries of that length before I finish at the end of December, so I can expect the final blook to be about 75,000 words, a respectable length for a business book.So did she? Or didn't she? Blook, that is.
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