Via USAT: Publishers put bloggers between the covers

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that bloggers - people who post personal stories and fiction on their Internet Web logs - would turn up their noses at the brick-and-mortar world of book publishing.

Hmm, I don’t know which bloggers she’s thinking about, but since many of us consider ourselves writers of one kind or another, I can’t imagine many of us would turn down a book deal. Heck, many of us are pretty near obsessive writers in the first place!

So much for conventional wisdom. From Washington tell-alls to people on the front lines of Iraq, bloggers are jumping on the publishing bandwagon in a trend that industry insiders say benefits both writers and publishers.

So much for her premise, more like it. Heck, let’s do a quick survey: how many of you bloggin’ types out there want to write a book and get, like, paid and stuff?

That’s what I thought…

Of course, the first two examples are Washingtonienne and Wonkette–not exactly highbrow stuff.

Mostly it appears that the books are either sex or war–which is pretty much what non-bloggers write books about.

So, no big story here kids. Move along: there’s nothing more to see.