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Questions Answered: Part III

15 hours ago ago from Punch It In!

Today's question comes from Erica . She asked: Are you also working on a book? All of my writer friends are writing the Great American Novel. The short answer is no, I am not working on a book. The long answer is that I've never had much interest in writing a book. Sure, I've convinced myself time and time again that I want to write a book, that anyone who has been writing as long as I have should want to write a book. But when ...

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How to Stop a Book Pirate #yam

1 hour, 0 minutes ago ago from Dog Food

How to Stop a Book Pirate By E.B. Boyd on Feb 09, 2010 09:36 PM Last month, Redwood City-based content monitoring company Attributor released a report saying that online book piracy costs publishers $2.75-3 billion a year, or 10 percent of total U.S. books sales. On average, it said, nearly 10,000 copies of every book published (their emphasis) is downloaded for free. The Millions , a blog about books, the arts, and culture, ...

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6 hours ago ago from Beattie\'s Book Blog

A uckland-based author-Gordon Dryden comments on The Financial Times article, A Page Is Turned, published on this blog earlier today: Hopefully, every New Zealand publisher and author will read, and re-read, this thoughtful piece by David Gelles and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson. Of all the world’s old technologies, the world of the mass-produced books is the last to be changed fundamentally by the online global, digital revolution that ...

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GalleyCat Reviews: Looking Towards the Future

16 hours ago ago from mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry

It's been two full weeks since we launched GalleyCat Reviews , publishing our first reviews , building a Twitter review directory , aggregating timely criticism , and teaming up with some great outlets . This week, we'll join some of publishing's brightest minds--trying to figure out how to improve our coverage. On Wednesday, February 10, at 7 p.m. in the Melville House Bookstore this GalleyCat editor will join a panel of journalists and ...

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4 hours ago ago from mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry

Last month the namesake of the literary journal McSweeney's passed away at 67-years-old. In 1998, Dave Eggers named "Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern" after an man who had sent letters to his mother. Timothy McSweeney was an MFA art student and onetime studio art teacher at Rutgers University. The site described his work : "The canvases he leaves behind are filled with haunting and beautiful imagery. They are also filled with a ...

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15 hours ago ago from CNN - Entertainment

Kate Gosselin to release new book By Brian Orloff , PEOPLE.com Kate Gosselin is scheduled to release "I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family" this spring. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Kate Gosselin is scheduled to release a new book this April through Zondervan Publishers The book is entitled I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family The book could ...

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Kate Gosselin Book 'I Just Want You To Know' Due Out In April

13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

NEW YORK Kate Gosselin has a new book, "I Just Want You to Know," scheduled for release in April. Christian book publisher Zondervan said Tuesday the book features excerpts, prayers and memories from Gosselin's journal, offering readers a look at her life during the three years her family went from obscurity to fame on TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8." Zondervan says the book includes eight individual letters, one addressed to each one of her ...

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Michael Ashley: iPad -- Evolution or Revolution?

14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

What's happening in the publishing industry is not evolution -- it's a revolution. The pendulum is swinging back toward the author and the iPad is just one more milestone along the way. Here are four reasons why the iPad is revolutionary: 1. It's not just a book on a computer screen. The whole concept of "Book" is finally changing and the idea that a book is a bunch of chapters packaged between two covers is fading. The iPad is a true ...

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Geri Spieler: Can You Survive Being Published?

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Publish Your Nonfiction Book: Strategies for Learning the Industry, Selling Your Book, and Building a Successful Career by Sharlene Martin and Anthony Flacco - Writers Digest Books, April 2009 How badly do you want to be published? This is the theme of Publish Your Nonfiction Book by Sharlene Martin and Anthony Flacco. It's all about tenacity, fire, patience and attention to detail. It is a ruthless game, yet first time authors still ...

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