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May.27.2011
Good news for readers and authors alike. E-readers are on the rise and digital books are increasing in popularity. I love this news. When I started writing, epubs were are small niche groups with high hopes. i still wen this route because I liked what I saw, i also found myself consuming more...
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May.06.2011
Following Michael Jackson's death in 2009, I wrote a series of blogs and articles to which thousands of websites--and more like two million where one article was concerned-- linked or simply "picked up" to add quality content to themed pages studded with ads. Most of the time, I was happy...
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Feb.18.2011
Caught up in the buzz over e-books, we are staking the preservation of knowledge on a medium more fragile and troublesome than paper. In the basement of our 1922 Edwardian, we discovered crumpled copies of the San Francisco Chronicle used as insulation. The newspaper was a window into a bygone era...
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Jan.09.2011
Last year my agent took me to a meeting about the e-book at the BEA. For every pro that an expert spoke there was a con by another expert. The difficulty of keeping things ready to print. Problems with copyright, distribution, hidden costs. The conclusion: not enough is known.
I left with so...
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