Book Deals
April 1, 2008
Stuff White People Like and I Can Has Cheezburger have been topping our Blogs of the Day charts for some time. Now the New York Times reports that both of those blogs have received book deals. “Stuff” apparently got a $300k advance. The books based on their blogs are due out this Fall. Congratulations to both of them!
(PS: This is not an April Fools joke)
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Simply amazing!!!
And since, this is the first LOT of WordPress Blogthors (Bloggers + Authors), they’ll surely make Random House’s investment, a profitable one.
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they deserve it !
Congrats !!!
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Congrats to the authors, and thx WP 🙂
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Very cool. Can I has book deal?
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Lightbread girls loves bookdeelz
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Way to go! Looks like someone’s buying dinners out for a while now!!!
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Wow. If that true, then good for them.
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wow! nice! congrats to both blogs!
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That is way too cool!
So I need to start a funky blog???
I blog in German (ich blogge auf deutsch)
and want to say:
The guys at WordPress are the best, only with WordPress can you have a chance at such an awesome book deal!
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I read about this. Congrats to them too. And to WordPress!
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wow! Congrats to both of them.
I wonder when I could have the same chances 😛
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You can get the internets in hardcopy?
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Very Cool. Both blogs are top notch. Publishers might keep an eye on http://stuffebplike.com/ as well.
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Jealous, jealous, very jealous … 😉
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Congrats you two! That’s awesome.
=^.^=
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Cool!
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Yet another first, by wordpresS!.
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Congratulations to both of them! I think every blogger’s secret dream is to ‘be discovered.’
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Holla!
I knew a blog was always good for fame, but money?
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~Ag!~
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That’s something white people would do.
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The moral lesson being that if you write enough posts full of cliches and lame humour you get rich. Ah, the wonders of the Internet age!
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Congrats to them. I enjoy them both very much. I would love it, LOVE IT, if my blog became that popular, however I haven’t even reached the 2000 people veiwed point yet…maybe I should start a marketing campaign for my blog………..
COME VISIT MY WEB BLOG. IT’S LWAYSWRIGHT!!!!! HEE HEE!
Sorry, guess I should stick to old fashioned, corney mom stories and poetry! LOL. Congrats anyways!
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Wonderful News, good luck to both
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Great news for them. Big congrats.
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Heaven knows these guys deserve their accolades. And kudos to the WordPress team too for a fantastic platform.
Me? I have to restrain myself from wailing with laughter at the office when I log on to check my blog stats and go into Cheezburger for a dose of humour.
Anyway, there is hope for my ‘lowly’ blogs; that is what I will say.
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Cool! I enjoy them both! Congrats guys! TV’s Weblog
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That’s really cool, and yes they do deserve it! And LOL @ dissfunktional
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This is simply amazing and awe inspiring. Has this ever happened before? Congratulations to everyone involved!
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Very cool – congrats…there’s a glimmer of hope for the rest of us!
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Awesome! Congratulations to both of them…and thanks again to WordPress for such a great opportunity.
Shirley Buxton
http://www.writenow.wordpress.com
http://www.shirleybuxton.wordpress.com
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So now we know what this years Christmas bet sellers will be.
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Pretty cool. I saw the article in the Times while sipping my morning ‘java’ just like they mentioned in #1…
Peace!
P.S.
Come check out Container Diaries, it’s a Blog dedicated to my old neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
http://holyname.wordpress.com/
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That’s so awsome , aww I want the ” I can haz a cheeseburger ? ” one. My blog has no topic whatsoever so it’s impossible for it to become a book.. unless I become super famous.. or dosomething so stupid people will have curiosity for me…
Well..congrats! 😀
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wow that’s awesome. congrats to them. keep up the good work guys.
*Bmist*
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300k as an advance. nice.
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Congratulations to them – I am truly envious!
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That’s great. Congratulations to both of them! But really, though, when are we ever getting new themes? It’s been awhile since the last one now! 😦
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great , condratulations to them :))
m2m
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That’s GREAT! Congrats to them both! I have both sites listed on my blogroll, so the idea certainly is plausible! I am newly motivated! 🙂
http://www.msfriendly.wordpress.com
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Well it’s about time! Those two blogs HAVE to be the two most popular on WordPress, especially the ‘I can haz cheezeburger?” blog. Good job to both!
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Congratulations to both and a thank you to W.
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I saw that they are being sponsored by target as well. That is truly amazing for them! It is awesome what can happen with the internet and the popularity of blogs. It’s like disneyland….dreams really do come true…..dang where is prince charming anyway????LOL
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WordPress kicks other blogging sites’ collective e-asses. You were recommended by a friend. I owe that guy a beer. I’m fairly new to blogging but you’ve made facilitating a group blog easy.
I appreciate Stuff White People Like, though as a Canadian I find I learn more from the comments than the posts, mostly about US-America (not to generalize the commentors to the whole US population, I’m just saying). That isn’t a knock on the bloggers, they’re great.
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So lame…so, so miserably lame. Is it just too much to hope that something with at least a shred of intellectual insight and commentary will make a breakthrough, instead of looney toons crazy katzz and wonder bread??
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I was at a writers’ conference last weekend, and a couple of the agents were talking about this. Congratulations!
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Hey, great news! One small (well, not quite small) step for bloggers; one giant step for the blogosphere!
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They should share with us how they got about getting the book deals.
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Excellent. Keep on keepin on. It is the process that counts, not the destination.
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Congrats to you guys. Now comes the hard work! Good luck!
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I, the ten year old blogger, demand a book deal. NOW! 😀
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whatever . . .
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Coolio! Nice idea
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They can has fame!
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Congratulations to them both.
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I’m working on a book proposal right now. I hope I’m as succesful as these two.
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Of course if I can’t learn to spell “successful”, then I probably won’t be.
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Haven’t read/seen “…White People…” but “I Can Has Cheezburger” –got attention from a publisher? That thing isn’t funny, sophisticated, witty, amusing, engender any reason whatsoever to go to it –a second time. –I got suckered –the first/only time, when it showed up on my WP Home page. WHAT was it doing there? The thing: can hardly be called “blog” –it’s dumb, vomitus; shows:
how lonely, desperate some are for stimulation. “Book” house buying that garbage: shows how low publishers will go to make money –knowing those who didn’t bother graduating high school won’t disappoint. None involved merit congratulations. Destruction of trees, not warranted.
The only surprising thing: How it ‘magically’ got listed on my WP Home page. I used to visit many/most of the blogs listed, but after getting suckered, I don’t even look at what’s listed. Credibility: shot.
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oh, that is so nice! congratulations to the both of them!
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Congratulations to blogger. Very good. Congrats to WordPress:)
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Awesome! I guess blogging can be lucrative after all!
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congratulations… Waiting for the other blogs follow… 😀
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Hope they give you WordPress guys a percentage. 🙂
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Couldn’t have happened to less deserving bloggers.
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These two deserve it. I’m happy for ’em.
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awesome. congrats guys
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great!! congratulation! well, i also lovee to read I Can Has Cheezburger.
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way to go hotties!
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a big w00t.. good going guys!
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Dear god. Does that mean we’ll have tyo suffer I can haz cheezemurder even more now?
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Icanhascheezburger’s been operating as a commercial success for quite some time, so a book deal was inevitable. Stuff is just as entertaining.
Congratulations to both blogs!
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Hey, how do you get a deal like this?
Do you apply for it, or wait for them to come to you?
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Wow, quite interesting…. Is this the first time there has been bloggers asked to write a book? (ones that have not published books before they began blogging..?)
Good on them!
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Wow that’s wonderful! Those two blogs deserve a book deal [Now if Lonely Planet or another travel guide would like someone to help for their Taiwan edition I hope they look my way ;)]!
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Congratulations to I Can Haz Cheezburger. I’ve been “LOLing” at their images for quite some time.
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OK, I’m motivated
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Cogratulation to the both 🙂
That is a wonderful award /reward for the hard work!
I am sure, more WordPress bloggers will be acknowledged soon, for the Wordpess Community creates a truly great content.
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Thats cool. Congratulations to both the bloggers.
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Is the buyout (from target) an april fools joke???
If it is…lol!
And congrats on the book deals…I’d better up my blogging ante!
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Congrats to them, but the “top blogs”-charts are really stupid. The ones that are topping the charts will always be number 1, since people want to check out what’s COOL. Then they will get even more views and stay on #1. Some top blogs doesn’t even deserve being there – they just have many views because they make people angry. And people just can’t stop watching the things that are making them angry.
But I really like Lolcats so I think they deserve to be #1.
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Just how do you get to be on the Blog of the Day Charts. How much does that cost?
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First and foremost, my congratulations to both of them!
Now I have “fodder” when told that I’m wasting my time blogging! 😀
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I guess now we know who’s going to be funding the next round of WordPress.com server upgrades…
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Congratulations!
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Excellent stuff
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Cool.
Are cat memes stuff white people like?
I wish my book deal would make my blog popular.
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Congrats to them both.
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I can haz bookdeal too?
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Congratulations to both blogs! 😉
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How exciting for them! Congrats to them both!
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Congrats to both! Keep on writing folks… – – – …
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I’m thinking that they can buy all us word press people a round of drinks!!!!!! Then they can introduce us all to their agents and put in a good word…hint hint!!!! LOL 🙂
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congratulation….
(^_^)v
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I got a book deal as well based on my site, however I did not get 300K. Congrats to them!
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congratulations I CAN HAZ CHEESBURGER! That blog is so cute….it makes me smile when I want to cry.
CONGRATULATIONS “STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE”—-INTERESTING BLOG….ALTHOUGH MANY OF THE THINGS THEY SAY THAT WHITE PEOPLE LIKE MANY PEOPLE LIKE—!!!
gOOD LUCK IN ALL THAT YOU GUYS DO!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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Somehow I don’t think that people who love lol cats buy books…
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Congrats to them both! It’s a spectacular sign o’ the times for us all. Blog it & they will come…
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