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New Tech, New Wants
Sony WM-FX421 Walkman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Technology creates our needs faster than it satisfies them. (Kevin Kelly) My Monday morning muse for your ruminating pleasure is actually not mine at...
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Penguin Random House: Big Six Realignment Begins
Penguin Random House (Image by Marco Leone) By now you’ve heard the latest publishing industry scuttlebutt: Random House and Penguin are shacking up. But unlike many celebrity pairings which fuel the...
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The 4-Hour Chef’s Not So Simple Path to Buzz
The 4-Hour Chef’s Not So Simple Path to Buzz Four Hour Ferriss has done it again! Tim Ferriss (@tferriss), the author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, may soon prove to be the sellingest...
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Publishing, Piracy and Libraries
Brian O’Leary’s “The first, best defense“, a Low Country lesson on publishing, piracy and libraries, makes a compelling case for simultaneously fostering book demand and reducing book piracy by...
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Publishing Hatchet Job
Just over a year ago Digital Book World‘s Editorial Director, Jeremy Greenfield (@JDGsaid), helped “leak” a Hachette Book Group internal document reminding the team why traditional publishers remain...
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Commit. Begin. Now.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back — Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and...
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Summer Squash and Doodles
Summer squash blossom doodle, 2012 Rain stopped. Drought started. Sun soaked scorcher after scorcher. A heavenly week! Playing on Lake Champlain at last. And bracing for the return of rain tomorrow…...
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Kickstart David Berkeley’s Stories and Songs
David Berkeley, by Avery Rimer I’m fresh back in the Adirondacks after a revitalizing Santa Fe sojourn where I discovered David Berkeley (@davidberkeley). I was invited to a concert. I was unable to...
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Hybrid Author: Self-Publishing Circa 2025
The term “self-publishing” may have outlived its usefulness, according to Jon Fine, director of author and publishing relations at Amazon… When asked at a recent past conference what “self-publishing”...
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Keri Smith on Creativity (and Book Midwifery)
Who is Keri Smith? I’m long overdue with a post about Keri Smith (kerismith.com), and what better way to make up for that then by sharing some of her awesome advice on creativity. Both of the pointers...
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Short Books for Short Attention Spans
The hottest book publishing trend today: less is the new more. “The first time I saw a 73-page ‘book’ offered on Amazon, I was outraged,” says New York Times best selling author Michael Levin. “But I...
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RIP Authonomy
RIP Authonomy: HarperCollins to close online writer community on October 1. It is with great sadness that we must announce the closure of Authonomy. We created Authonomy in 2008 as a way of discovering...
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