At a time when more people interested in technology are getting their content fix from the Web, it seems that everyone is writing a book these days. Among the people who have written or now writing a book include:
Tara Hunt, who’s now moving to Montreal, and working on second book after recently completing The Whuffle Factor; popular cartoonist Hugh MacLeod (How to be Creative), Doc Searls, Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation) and Chris Brogan (Trust Agents).
It is interesting to see so many people so excited about writing books, and so many publishers excited about publishing books. It may be that the high-tech world is going through such exciting change these days with the emergence of new things such as social media that many people feel the need to articulate their thoughts and ideas to a receptive audience.
Another explanation could be that blogging has created a DIY creation culture in which people who would have never thought about writing a book are now getting the opportunity to do so because they been working on their writing chops for the past few years, built an audience, and shown publishers there may be a market.
Having written a book about high-tech investing that, unfortunately, was published just as the dot-com boom went bust, I can tell you that writing a book a labour of love. It’s a lot of hard work that burns up a lot of hours. While many authors make little money from writing books, they can serve as great marketing tools if you’re trying to build a personal brand in a competitive space.
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