The Year in Food Blog-to-Book Deals [2009-orama]
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Food blogs have been around for a good decade, at least, and food books have been around, well, pretty much forever, but it seems that it's this year that the dead-tree guys finally started paying serious attention to the smart writers, great photographers, and charming home cooks who happily toiled away on their [...]
Big, Big, Big Deals: Gary Vaynerchuck's Seven-Figure Contract with HarperStudio
Gary Vaynerchuck, the internet oenophile who we are more familiar with for his billboard on the highway to Newark Airport than his actual wine skills, has landed a seven-figure, seven-book contract with HarperStudio, the experimental new imprint of HarperCollins that's intended to find a sustainable publishing model that "doesn't rely on paying authors outsize advances [...]
