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The Unique Evolution of the Publishing Industry in the USA and Australia
The transformation of the publishing industry across economically advanced societies can be likened to the process of moulting. The industry sheds its old and tested methods to try new, rewarding and...
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Writer Software
If you feel like you spend too much time trolling through Word and not enough time writing, you’re not the only one. Michael Marshall Smith, bestselling author of Bad Things, Spares and The Servant and...
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The New Water Cooler: Promoting Books with LinkedIn
Branding is not about tricking people into buying your services or pretending to be someone you are not. – Paprocki and Paprocki Promoting products in creative ways is deeply etched onto our social...
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Handling Stress and Being Productive The Zen Way
On paper at least, writing as a profession doesn’t seem that strenuous or demanding compared to many other lines of work. Sitting around and typing on your PC doesn’t seem so bad, right? Well, if you...
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Futuristic Publishing: Turning the ‘Work of Art’ into a Work of Science
The publishing industry is on a roller-coaster ride currently, trying to stick to what worked in the past while also hesitantly, if compulsorily, experimenting with what technology has to offer. It has...
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Self-Publishing Boutique Books
An interesting sideline to the e-Book Revolution is that as printed books become more expensive, they also become more beautiful and collectible. As traditional publishers turn their back on high...
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California Passes Law to Open Access to Government Documents
Taking a cue from Colorado, the California legislature has passed a bill that “requires public agencies to provide or post to the Internet required public documents in an open format,” such as...
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You enter the post-apocalyptic world of the Matched through the eyes of a 17-year-old who has bought into the system, the only one she has ever known. In a world where there is so much uncertainty,...
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Fiction Vs Nonfiction – an Unending Face-Off
There have been many arguments and debates within literary circles about the bragging rights when it comes to fiction and nonfiction writing. If you are expecting an end to that debate, then you need...
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Could You Write Twitter Fiction?
With a limit of 140 characters, Twitter seems an unlikely forum for the next great novel, but writers all over the world are eagerly seizing the creative possibilities of this social media platform in...
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The Ethics (or Lack Thereof) of Purchased Book Reviews
The world of publishing is changing rapidly, in spite of what some hardcore traditional authors would like to think. Self-publishing is no longer considered an “easy way out,” as the task of getting an...
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Publishers and Pirates – Protecting Copyright Vs Freedom to Publish
In the 18th century publishers believed that public libraries would “ruin” the book, but libraries brought books to the masses, and publishing and reading flourished as a result. Today, publishers are...
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World Bids Adieu To Zig Ziglar: A Motivator For Motivational Speakers
Randy Miramontez / Shutterstock.com The self-help movement is ingrained into the American popular consciousness. Today more than ever, motivational speakers and inspirational speakers are a dime a...
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How To Create and Promote Brand “You”
A brand is a name, a term, a symbol or an idea that provokes a sense of trust, desire, familiarity or fellowship. It’s critical in the modern world of writer oversupply and Internet saturation because...
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The Nicest “Cease and Desist” Letter Ever
In past articles, we have discussed the important intellectual property-type stuff that authors need to bear in mind when creating a book or article for publication. As you may remember, there is a...
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Self-Publishing – the Time is Now!
Any creative pursuit today, be it music, visual or performing arts, acting or even writing, is reliant on one group of people – the agents. In the world of publishing, your literary agent is the person...
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Seasonal Story Traditions of the World
The Christmas season has inspired many stories of different genres; more so, for some reason, than other religious celebrations such as Chanukah. Christmas has great story potential, simply through...
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Mo Yan, the Nobel Prize and China: Signs of Change or History Repeating Itself?
Since its inception, few categories of Nobel prizes have garnered as much controversy and criticism as the Nobel for Literature. Only the Nobel Peace Prize comes close when it comes to the literary...
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Gone With the Wind
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zitona/3616391791/ When “Gone with the Wind”, Margaret Mitchell’s iconic novel about America’s South was published in 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald said the book had “none of...
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The 11 Most Influential People in the Publishing World
The publishing industry is a land of authors, editors, agents, designers, marketing folk, retailers, distributors and finally, publishers. So if you had some sort of pre-disposed notion that only...
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