NY Mag’s Daily Intel Covers Books, Doesn’t Read

In yesterday’s Facebook Book coverage on Daily Intel they admit “we gave up reading books a long time ago, if you hadn’t already guessed.” Well, at least they’re still covering books. According to Daily Intel, The Facebook Book is “the No. 166,530 most popular book on Amazon overall – apparently funny books about the Internet aren’t a top-selling genre. Why? Because that’s what the Internet is for.” It’s surprising after The Gawker Guide To Conquering All Media tanked that publishers are still doing web to book deals. There have been some standouts such as The Alphabet of Manlieness by Maddox and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max so we’ll be keeping our eye on Gotham’s I Can Has Cheezburger based on the popular LOLCat site to see what’s what with this trend.

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