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Amazon vs. Google: Seth Godin Wins

By On December 8, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Publishing

In the old days, that platform was the physical bookshelf in a brick-and-mortar retailer. Today, it’s a combination of email and ecommerce.

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Don’t Be a Writer, Be a Creator

By On August 20, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Publishing, Writing

And by independence, I mean making a sustainable living, not just self-publishing your book via Amazon or Lulu or Smashwords and declaring yourself an “indie”.

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Goodreads Takes Next Step in Social Reading

By On August 6, 2010 · 14 Comments · In Publishing

Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, according to the latest Nielsen research, and the most conservative estimates predict eBooks will represent at least 10% of book sales by the end of the year, but one question that’s not been clearly answered yet [...]

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Five Highlights from SXSW Interactive

By On March 16, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Publishing

Today is the last day of the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, but it wrapped up for me last night, and while I’m still digesting everything I took in, a few highlights have already become clear.

Overall, the festival has been a chaotic mix of truly inspired presentations, thinly veiled sales pitches, over-the-top demagoguery [...]

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Everything You Thought You Knew is Wrong

By On November 23, 2009 · 26 Comments · In Publishing

And this is what surprises me. Harlequin, you’re brilliant. You’ve made nothing but all the right steps in all these decades of publishing. You flourish where others founder. You took a great (welcome) leap with Carina, but this? This displays the business sense of a kindergartner.

–Moriah Jovan, Harlequin: Ur doin it rong

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