Did you know that you can make a book from your blog?
You probably did know that.
I, however, for some reason, did not realize this until recently.
When I found out that my friend Laura, who blogs at Wife and Mom Under Construction, makes a blog book every year with that year’s posts, I had to find out more. She pointed me to Blog2Print (I think it was that one), but since I blog on WordPress.org rather than WordPress.com, I couldn’t print mine that way.
So, after some digging around, I decided on Lulu for my blog books. So far, I’ve got 2008 and 2009 done and I’m really happy with them. Lulu sends you a $25 off coupon good toward your first printing, so my 2008 book was practically free (I just had to pay a few dollars shipping) and my 2009 book, which was 185 pages, was nearly half price. They’re not cheap, but as family keepsakes, they’re totally worth it.
If you haven’t done this with your blog, you should really check it out. It’s so worth the time and effort to have it in print for posterity. Plus, you get a PDF version for free on Lulu, and probably the other print sites as well.
Not that anyone would want to buy it necessarily, other than maybe family, but on Lulu, you can also sell both print and E-book versions, which is pretty cool.
Here are my PDF versions:
I will be working on 2010 and 2011 this winter.
This is pretty interesting. My plan is to complete a certain category on my blog and turn it into a free e-book. But, I love the idea of making the whole blog into a book. This is a great idea and I really appreciate you posting about it! I keep planning to blog post about our experiences with invitro and everything we went through … If there’s enough articles on that, I could almost make another e-book. The sky’s the limit!