The tech-book boom is back!

Twee maanden na de publicatie in Wired en de start van een eigen weblog, heeft Chris Anderson zijn verhaal The Long Tail verkocht aan Hyperion voor meer dan $500,000:

It’s a book-length version of a meditation he wrote for his own magazine about the end of the “mainstream” in culture. “Jaws hit the floor over how much they paid,” says one source whose house was outbid. Watch for the Wired trend story: The tech-book boom is back!