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Mar.31.2009
I own thousands of books. Old-fashioned pasteboard, buckram, leather and paper. I love the written word in all its forms and the ebook is something I am very gradually coming to terms with over the luddite impulses that have generally ruled my reading life. As part of my ongoing internal...
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Mar.03.2009
I got this message from the Authors Guild late last night. It might prove interesting and/or informative to you authors out there....
We have two major developments to bring you up to date on. The first development involves Amazon's Kindle 2 reading device and the second pertains to our...
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Jun.25.2008
I have now edited the Kindle version of War on the Margins, oh, three or four times; I've lost count! I am working on a second book that has just about nothing to do with the first book, about an obscure Dutch colony in what is now Delaware.
At the end of May I pitched War on the Margins to the...
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Jun.01.2008
After two reviewers knocking off a star for editing, I finally got the message and, for the second time, edited the Amazon Kindle version of War on the Margins. The .html format of Kindl-ese does not take kindly to unorthodox spacing practices (like the double spacing between lines of dialogue that...
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Apr.13.2008
A writer friend with an almost-finished book told me recently she thought she would podcast it, skipping the bother of agents and editors and such. This was within the same week that another friend advised his summer reading would be strictly Kindle, skipping the bother of books and magazines and...
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Apr.11.2008
At the urging of friends, I finally decided to get off my butt and publish the novel I had written for my MA in Jewish Studies. It is already up on Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/War-on-the-Margins/dp/B00137LZ4O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1207923139&sr=1-1), and I am in the...
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