I'm not $171 good...
Just as I was publishing last night’s post I saw an advertisement for turning your blog into a book, and it said – prices starting at $14.95. Apparently they can print your blog in a nice book, complete with an index in the front, and even customizable front and back cover. For the awesomely low price of starting at $14.95.
Now, I can read my own blog for free, obviously, but admit it… it’s a pain in the ass to go back and read through the archives. I’d happily drop a starting at $14.95 for my blog in book form. Although I guess I’d have to come up with a clever way of tying everything up. Because you don’t want a book to end with the last page being nothing more than bitching and moaning about how much the book cost to produce. Not very satisfying.
So, starting at $14.95, I clicked the link with eager anticipation (see, this is why my blog would make a great book, c’mon, that’s just genius writing). I entered my information and off the online publisher went to evaluate my blog and come up with the price it would take to print. Starting at $14.95. My. Ass. Unless of course you started your blog last Tuesday, and don’t participate in NaBloPoMo.
Guess how much my blog would cost to print into a nice book. Just guess… I’ll wait while you form an educated guess. And remember that, although these last few years have seen scant-a-post, I’ve been blogging since about September of 2004…
Yeah, $171 and some odd change.
Now. I write some pretty good stuff. Maybe not now, but I used to. Once in a while. But you can some pretty damn good books for $171. Or, if you’d prefer, you can buy ANY book for $171. I can almost guarantee that if you go down to the local book store, there isn’t a book there that cost $171. And if there is, it best be one of those get rich quick books, that works, fast. If you are buying books that cost $171, you are going to need to get rich quick.
Even if I posted every day for the past 5 and some years, which I obviously have not, that would be like $0.10 a post. Not even I, who happens to love my writing, would pay that to read this. I mean, I’m good. But I’m not $171 good.
nick
Now, I can read my own blog for free, obviously, but admit it… it’s a pain in the ass to go back and read through the archives. I’d happily drop a starting at $14.95 for my blog in book form. Although I guess I’d have to come up with a clever way of tying everything up. Because you don’t want a book to end with the last page being nothing more than bitching and moaning about how much the book cost to produce. Not very satisfying.
So, starting at $14.95, I clicked the link with eager anticipation (see, this is why my blog would make a great book, c’mon, that’s just genius writing). I entered my information and off the online publisher went to evaluate my blog and come up with the price it would take to print. Starting at $14.95. My. Ass. Unless of course you started your blog last Tuesday, and don’t participate in NaBloPoMo.
Guess how much my blog would cost to print into a nice book. Just guess… I’ll wait while you form an educated guess. And remember that, although these last few years have seen scant-a-post, I’ve been blogging since about September of 2004…
Yeah, $171 and some odd change.
Now. I write some pretty good stuff. Maybe not now, but I used to. Once in a while. But you can some pretty damn good books for $171. Or, if you’d prefer, you can buy ANY book for $171. I can almost guarantee that if you go down to the local book store, there isn’t a book there that cost $171. And if there is, it best be one of those get rich quick books, that works, fast. If you are buying books that cost $171, you are going to need to get rich quick.
Even if I posted every day for the past 5 and some years, which I obviously have not, that would be like $0.10 a post. Not even I, who happens to love my writing, would pay that to read this. I mean, I’m good. But I’m not $171 good.
nick
Labels: NaBloPoMo
posted by Nick at
4:22 PM
1 Comments:
$171?!? That's insane!
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