Honestly, you can publish your blog as a book. Really.

This might seem a little nutty, but you can actually import your Live Journal, TypePad.com, or Wordpress blog into the Blurb.com BookSmart software and create one or many copies of your blog in the form of a book.

Why would anyone want to do that? Isn’t that the reverse of how most authors work? Before you know it, authors will be polishing their online manuscripts, er blogs, for the world to see. Bloggers will lend free editing advice, critique the third paragraph for saying “undoubtedly” too many times, or point out character confusion in the dialogue. Then, the online author will download this BookSmart software, import the final product from their blog, and (here’s the drumroll) pay $40.00 for one copy of the book in softcover (given that it is a 200 page book). Want it in hardcover? Oh, that’s only $47.95. Chicken feed for a blog book that you can’t get anywhere else but, well, I guess on a blog for free online.

Okay, you got me.

Wedding books, photo books for an anniversary, or grandma’s personal cookbook for the family…maybe. But publishing a blog to a book?

I admit, it has gotten Blurb.com quite a bit of press, but I’d love to know how much of their business has been made on $40.00 blog books.