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Dec.01.2011
As I key, a major new library is being built a forty minute walk away from me in Halifax, Canada. It will be large and worth millions and - according to this report - well-used. Libraries have always - of course - been more than the books they contain. Today they are also an electronic centre and...
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Nov.29.2011
I do indeed have some manuscripts which I consider for self-publishing. I would rather that each and every one instead be produced by a traditional publisher. They should still do a better job than I, and allow me to do what I really want to do - write novels. To my -perhaps simple- eye,...
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Nov.29.2011
Yesterday’s post showed us how savvy writers today can utilize the Internet to help them research, write and promote their books. Today we look at how the Internet has changed how readers find those books. In the quickly-changing publishing world—and the even-more-quickly-changing world of book...
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Nov.24.2011
Authors used to spend their time promoting themselves via speaking. Getting up in front of audiences offered the #1 way to sell books. It ran a close race with radio appearances—or any type of media appearances. Face time…in front of large audiences. That was the ticket to book sales.
These...
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Nov.23.2011
This interview is about 'business' books, but I can see this idea spreading. I am of two minds if I want to be able to instantly jump to some specific topic a novels deals with. Or a character's home town. Or photos of a setting. However, if the characters were having, say, a particular onion dish...
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Nov.19.2011
This is, by and large, what Barnes & Noble is offering. You can also get another paper book, but it is the cross-over which intrigues me. It is the type of situation which I hope will continue (and which this offer will encourage) - the co-existence of pBooks and eBooks....
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Nov.18.2011
The secret to writing success?
What is it?
We already possess it.
We use it daily, and, in most aspects of our lives, have honed it to a scalpel’s keenness.
Is it creativity?
No, creative people rarely have time to sit down at a keyboard, as they are too busy feng shui-ing their way through the...
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Nov.17.2011
I confess to knowing nothing about this book except what I have read, so this is no review nor recommendation. It is however, proof that there is still a place for "real" books. It even outsold its eBook sibling. I cheer.
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Knopf's High-End...
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Nov.16.2011
This might be the best of both worlds - I'm going to see how it shakes down. Will such books (and authors), even under the aegis of venerable Penguin, be not much better that Vanity Press fare? And what of editorial standards? If all this takes is $100, the wheat will be lost in a mountain of chaff...
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Nov.15.2011
Some of my paperback editions had advertising in them, which caused me no distress. And although this article concentrates on non-fiction eBooks, well... it is the thin edge of the wedge. I wonder if this is just one more thing authors will have to look after (and try to control) in their contracts...
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