I was at a Barnes & Noble store a couple days ago, and I saw a few copies Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett’s book ProBlogger: Secrets Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income sitting on the shelf in the Computers and Internet section (the spot I always head directly for whenever I’m in a book store).
I picked up a copy of the book and started to skim through it. I didn’t read it quite as thoroughly as I would have had I bought the book, but I spent a half hour or so giving it a good look.
The 240-page book covers quite a bit of ground. It spends a couple chapters introducing the concepts of blogging and “ProBlogging,” and guides you through setting up a blog. Dispensing with the “start a blog in ten minutes” mentality that so many blogging books take, it teaches you to think about things more, to plan before you run out a create a shiny new blog. They keep that part of the book to a minimum though, instead focusing on what you do after you have a blog.
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