Blogs are typically websites or web pages that are run by an individual person or a small group of people and updated regularly in an informal writing style, while books are considered to be a literary composition written by an author or authors in a style best suited for the chosen genre. Any blog can be copied and pasted into a Kindle book template in Microsoft word, then published on Amazon. Yet, the real question is how to know which blogs should be turned into books.

Views

The easiest way to tell if a blog should be converted into a book is the number of views the blog gets. A blog seeing a high level of traffic with lots of subscribers clearly has a high level of interest to a lot of people. This means that if the blog is converted into a book, then the book would have a readymade audience. However, if the blog is struggling to get a hundred views a day and has no subscribers, then it is not a blog that would benefit from becoming a book.

Comments

The comments section of a blog is another good indicator of whether or not it would be successful as a book. This indicator requires there to be many comments, discussions/arguments happening, and there to be commenters returning consistently to comment. These comments can be read and evaluated to discover the general feeling that people get from reading the blog. If the blog is filled with comments that are negative towards the blog itself, then a book conversion is probably not going to end in success.

Poll/Survey

The easiest way for a writer to discover how their blog would do as a book is to set up a poll or survey on their blog, asking for the opinion of their readers. A poll or survey that receives no responses is an indicator that turning the blog into a book would not be a good idea. If the poll or survey receives a good number of responses, then it is important to not only read over the results, but to take them into consideration as they might possess useful advice in converting to book format, staying in blog format, and/or information the writer had not considered.

Format/Writing Style

The format and writing style are also very important aspects to consider because not all formats provide the solid base required for transitioning into a book format. For example, if the blog is composed of mainly visual elements, then in a book format that would force the book into becoming a comic book or graphic novel. It is very important for the writer to consider what genre their blog would fall into if it became a book, and if that is the genre the writer would choose for the blog.

Time and Effort vs Success

The last factor to consider is the amount of time and effort it would take to convert the blog into a book and what the potential return on the book would be. In other words: is it worth it?