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The Vagenda by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter; Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

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A decade or more ago publishers began to realise that there was gold in them thar blogs. Energetic, mostly young, unpaid authors, animated by enthusiasm for their subject and the desire to write, could try out ideas or recount experiences — often pseudonymously — and see if they worked. Publishers could then take a less precarious punt on material that had already gained a following or attracted media attention. Publishers got books, new authors got publishers and got paid. Which, of course, was a fine thing for everyone.

But the question that blog-books are beginning to raise is that of how much

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