Blogs to books

Thomas Merton -- before he became a monk and then a much-published, world-famous author -- used to joke that the only way he would ever get published was if his unpublished manuscripts were admitted into a court record as evidence when he was charged with subversion. But nowadays the bar is somewhat lower, despite complaints by mid-list authors that it's getting harder and harder to survive unless you produce blockbusters.

Now a British team has announced plans to open a new publishing house to turn blogs into books. The new house's name was inspired by one of its founders websites, The Friday Thing.

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