![]() You can’t include everything and you can’t satisfy what everybody thinks is the best, so it’s a matter of trying to shape the raw material into a more cohesive narrative. ![]() Instead, the success of a blog-to-book translation lies with the selection of material, especially because the online reader can curate for themselves. But perhaps this can’t be dealt with it’s just the nature of the medium, of putting moving blog to fixed page. Club is reading the comments, something you will never see collected. ![]() As this profile of Homestar Runner points out, just because it hasn’t updated in years doesn’t mean that it won’t, and my favorite part of catching up on old-school Saturday Night Live with The A.V. However, this doesn’t deal with the inherent difference between a book and a blog-a book is, more or less, fixed, while a blog is a living, breathing thing. ![]() As a method of enticing fans to purchase something they can essentially get for free (although one hopes they’d want to support their favorite creators regardless), it’s not a bad way of doing things. How do you successfully translate a blog into a book? The current model, as seen in My Year of Flops and Hyperbole and a Half, is to collect the best of the original posts and add some exclusive original material. ![]()
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