This is yet another wrinkle in the vanity press business, and it's a fishing expedition aimed at those of us with big pockets and an ego to match, who may be thinking that the world really needs hard copies of our daily blog babblings to put on a bookshelf or to send to relatives and friends who may or may not be all that desperate for reading and dusting materials.
How much of an average blog could we print in 20 pages of stylishly laid out text and images? Maybe a week's worth? Two weeks' worth? And you've been doing your blog for how many years now?
Maybe real hold-in-your-hand books aren't going to become extinct, but they aren't going to be very affordable at fifteen bucks for 20 pages. An eBook makes more sense, until we realize that our blog itself is virtually the same thing, but without requiring any special $200 tablet on which to access it. And that's why Google's Blogger is such a great idea. A great idea that's absolutely free!
Wikipedia, in answer to the question of "How many blogs are there?" reports that as of February 16, 2011 there were "over 156 million blogs". And I'm not even going to talk about the 800 million Facebookers out there, who could be blogging if only they had more to say, or knew how, or cared to learn.
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