Blooks; A new rage?

I didn’t know what blooks where about, until this afternoon someone paid my attention on it. Because of this I conducted further research, and encountered the website aboutblooks.com. This website provides the following definition: "a blook is a printed and bound book, based on a blog". This definition speaks in my opinion for itself. According to Wikipedia, a weblog in the shape of a book can also be considered as a blook.

De term "Blook" is introduced by Jeff Jarvis. He invented this name as a title for the first book that was based on a weblog. This book was written by Tony Pierce, who had organised a competition to come up with a title. That’s why many people think that Tony Pierce has invented this term. Afterwards, it is known that this is not true.

Some people are scared or believe that “the blook” could be the first impulse of the disappearance of the paper book. This seems a little bit exaggerated to me, because blooks can also be published in paper. Besides that, I think it’s more comfortable for people to read a book based on paper (just as me).

The website lulu.com makes in a clever manner use of this new rage. She provides everyone the possibility to create, publish and sell their own books (and other multimedia stuff). Also you can buy work of other people. They’ve even invented the first literal award for blooks: The Lulu blooker Prize!