Blooks

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One definition of blook is a book serialized on a blog site. Chapters are published one by one as blog posts, and readers can then subscribe to a blook with an RSS feed, tag it, comment on it, etc. This type of blook was popularized by Tom Evslin in September 2005, with the launch of hackoff.com, a murder mystery set in the dot-com bubble.

Blooks can include online material. For example, hackoff.com includes both a wiki and a faux company website for the fictional company described in the book.

Another definition of blook is a printed book whose content was originally posted on a blog. Tony Pierce published a blook of this type in 2002 which was actually named Blook after Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine invented the term here.

Print-on-demand publisher Lulu.com inaugurated the Lulu Blooker Prize for blooks, using the definition of a book deriving from blog content, which was first awarded in 2006.

Naked Spygirl by Olivia Frank An Instance of Shining Light by A. Zlengy and Madie's Bear Tribe Journals by Marsha Loftis are self-described as blooks. Other blooks available as of 10/12/05 include The Boy Who Heard Music by British rock star Peter Townshend, Time to Play the Game by Tim Jousma, A Novel by Tao Lin, Death Sucks: On being a vampire kitty-cat by Ray Rhamey, Rad Decision by James Aach, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Book, vitualis' Medical Rants by Michael Tam and Fiddle and Burnby Jason Pomerantz. MORTAL GHOST a YA fantasy by L. Lee Lowe. Although these works fit the definition of blook, they don't currently describe themselves that way.

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