Sulekha Book Series, a BlogPrint Initiative

When our BlogPrint initiative in collaboration with Penguin books came to end, members from across the globe sent us emails saying "Now what?"

With the 'BlogPrint' initiative, we gave blogger's on Sulekha, the opportunity to get their blogs published in print. As daunting as the proposition sounded, for the year 2008, we had to think of a way to take it one step higher! So we thought about it for a while, then for a little more time, until we hit upon something that we knew was a sure shot Winner.

Presenting to you, the Sulekha Book Series, an opportunity this time to make you an author of a complete book compiled of only your favorite blogs. That's right, all you have to do is work with the Sulekha editorial team, choose the posts which you believe should be published in the book and leave the rest to us. Read on for more details:

The Sulekha Series:

• Sulekha Series is Sulekha's own publication series which will showcase on print, it's most talented writers
• One blogger will be selected every month whose blogs will be featured in a book. It will be a 'Single author' book dedicated to featuring the contributions of one featured blogger on Sulekha.com and will showcase a selection of his work.
• We also plan during the year to create other books which are compilations of a series of writing on a particular theme, this book will showcase work from a diverse set of blogger's.
• The Sulekha editorial team will work with the blogger in identifying and selecting posts which will be published in the book. The proof-reading, copy-editing and pagination of the book will be carried out by the Sulekha editorial team.
• The published books will go to sale on Sulekha.com and Indiaplaza.in from which the books can be purchased.
• The profits from all the books sold will go completely to the blogger. The exact price-point and margin of profit will be decided by the blogger in consultation with the publisher of the book. All chosen bloggers can treat this as an independant business entity.
• Sulekha and India Plaza will only recover the mandatory credit card charges incurred in selling the book and will take no share of the revenues earned from Sales.
• In the case of the books which will contain a series of writing, due to logistical constraints in the sharing of revenue, books will be sold at cost price.
•  The blogger showcased in the Single Author book will receive 15 free copies of the book, while all bloggers show cased in the multiple author book will receive 2 free copies each. Further copies can be bought at cost prize on Sulekha.com or India Plaza.
• Books will be published and distributed within 30 days of creating a final manuscript. We estimate the time taken to create the manuscript in association with the blogger to be approximately 15 days.
• The blogger selected for the 'Single Author' book will be announced by the 15th of every month, while the published book will go to sale during the first week of the following month. For instance, for the month of May, we will be announcing the chosen blogger on April 15th, while the book will go to sale during the first week of May.

As with all of our contests, the winners will be chosen by the Sulekha.com editorial team on the basis of Quality of writing, Member recommendations and Traffic. Decisions made by the Sulekha editorial team will be final and binding.

Over the next few years, we see the Sulekha series evolving as the pride and joy of Sulekha Blogs. In the next few months, we plan on publishing Coffee Books, Books dedicated to Travel, Humor, Food, Poetry and a whole lot more.

For us this is another initiative to celebrate the wealth of talent we have amongst our Sulekha members and make them best selling authors. Its time for you to clear your book shelf, the next book which goes up onto your book-shelf could well be yours!