Posted: Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 4:49 pm. Filed in Press.
Book Deals
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)
April 1st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:28 pm
they deserve it !
Congrats !!!
April 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Congrats to the authors, and thx WP
April 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Very cool. Can I has book deal?
April 1st, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Lightbread girls loves bookdeelz
April 1st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Way to go! Looks like someone’s buying dinners out for a while now!!!
April 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Wow. If that true, then good for them.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
wow! nice! congrats to both blogs!
April 1st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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!
April 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I read about this. Congrats to them too. And to WordPress!
April 1st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
wow! Congrats to both of them.
I wonder when I could have the same chances
April 1st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
You can get the internets in hardcopy?
April 1st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Very Cool. Both blogs are top notch. Publishers might keep an eye on http://stuffebplike.com/ as well.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Jealous, jealous, very jealous …
April 1st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Congrats you two! That’s awesome.
=^.^=
April 1st, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Cool!
April 1st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Yet another first, by wordpresS!.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Congratulations to both of them! I think every blogger’s secret dream is to ‘be discovered.’
April 1st, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Holla!
I knew a blog was always good for fame, but money?
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~Ag!~
April 1st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
That’s something white people would do.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
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!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
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!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Wonderful News, good luck to both
April 1st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Great news for them. Big congrats.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:58 pm
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.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Cool! I enjoy them both! Congrats guys! TV’s Weblog
April 1st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
That’s really cool, and yes they do deserve it! And LOL @ dissfunktional
April 1st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
This is simply amazing and awe inspiring. Has this ever happened before? Congratulations to everyone involved!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Very cool – congrats…there’s a glimmer of hope for the rest of us!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
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
April 1st, 2008 at 8:55 pm
So now we know what this years Christmas bet sellers will be.
April 1st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
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/
April 1st, 2008 at 8:59 pm
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!
April 1st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
wow that’s awesome. congrats to them. keep up the good work guys.
*Bmist*
April 1st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
300k as an advance. nice.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Congratulations to them – I am truly envious!
April 1st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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!
April 1st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
great , condratulations to them
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m2m
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
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
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 am
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!
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:30 am
Congratulations to both and a thank you to W.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 am
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
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 am
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.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 am
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??
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:11 am
I was at a writers’ conference last weekend, and a couple of the agents were talking about this. Congratulations!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 am
Hey, great news! One small (well, not quite small) step for bloggers; one giant step for the blogosphere!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:23 am
They should share with us how they got about getting the book deals.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 am
Excellent. Keep on keepin on. It is the process that counts, not the destination.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 am
Congrats to you guys. Now comes the hard work! Good luck!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:48 am
I, the ten year old blogger, demand a book deal. NOW!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 am
whatever . . .
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:20 am
Coolio! Nice idea
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 am
They can has fame!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 am
Congratulations to them both.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 am
I’m working on a book proposal right now. I hope I’m as succesful as these two.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 am
Of course if I can’t learn to spell “successful”, then I probably won’t be.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 am
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.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 am
oh, that is so nice! congratulations to the both of them!
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 am
Congratulations to blogger. Very good. Congrats to WordPress:)
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 am
Awesome! I guess blogging can be lucrative after all!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 am
congratulations… Waiting for the other blogs follow…
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 am
Hope they give you WordPress guys a percentage.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 am
Couldn’t have happened to less deserving bloggers.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 am
These two deserve it. I’m happy for ‘em.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
awesome. congrats guys
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 am
great!! congratulation! well, i also lovee to read I Can Has Cheezburger.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
way to go hotties!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
a big w00t.. good going guys!
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
Dear god. Does that mean we’ll have tyo suffer I can haz cheezemurder even more now?
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 am
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!
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Hey, how do you get a deal like this?
Do you apply for it, or wait for them to come to you?
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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
]!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Congratulations to I Can Haz Cheezburger. I’ve been “LOLing” at their images for quite some time.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
OK, I’m motivated
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
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.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Thats cool. Congratulations to both the bloggers.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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!
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Just how do you get to be on the Blog of the Day Charts. How much does that cost?
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
First and foremost, my congratulations to both of them!
Now I have “fodder” when told that I’m wasting my time blogging!
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I guess now we know who’s going to be funding the next round of WordPress.com server upgrades…
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Congratulations!
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Excellent stuff
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Cool.
Are cat memes stuff white people like?
I wish my book deal would make my blog popular.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Congrats to them both.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I can haz bookdeal too?
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Congratulations to both blogs!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 am
How exciting for them! Congrats to them both!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 am
Congrats to both! Keep on writing folks… – - – …
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:59 am
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
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 am
congratulation….
(^_^)v
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
I got a book deal as well based on my site, however I did not get 300K. Congrats to them!
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
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!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Somehow I don’t think that people who love lol cats buy books…
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Congrats to them both! It’s a spectacular sign o’ the times for us all. Blog it & they will come…