Massively popular: Those crazy YouTube kids are turning into authors and driving up book sales.
LOS ANGELES: Videos like "Walking Around Naked" and "Apps That Need to Be Invented" made Connor Franta a star on YouTube. More than nine million watched "Coming Out," in which the introspective 22-year-old told his young fan base that he was gay.
When he wanted to stretch beyond the format of a six- or 10-minute video, the new media sensation chose an old-fashioned media form: a book. It took a year to write and publish the 224-page memoir A Work in Progress and, to his surprise, it stuck on the New York Times best seller list for 16 weeks.
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