Gawker Media dumps Wonkette
By Jane • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •I missed this story completely. Must have been the crazy Amazon thing that made me pass over this. Gawker Media, the owner of several blogs such as the science fiction/fantasy blog io9 and one of my favorite tech blogs: Gizmodo, decided to sell off Idolator to Buzzne; Gridskipper to Curbed, and Wonkette to its current manager.
Nick Denton, owner of Gawker Media, has been lauded (despite being a prize asshole apparently) for actually making money off of internet content when no one else has. The fact that Denton is now selling off one of his flagship sites, Wonkette, has the traditional media in a tizzy. After all, Wonkette gets over a million monthly unique visitors (as a comparison, Dear Author 56,609 unique visitors in March) and if Nick Denton can’t make money off of Wonkette, can any internet news medium?
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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Huh! Wonkette? really? I used to visit that site a few years ago.
I probably counted for 2 of DA’s unique visitors in March since I was using 2 laptops. :-)