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May 13, 2012
10:11 • 1 year ago
It used to be that once a year was a big deal. You could saturate the market. But today the culture is a great big hungry maw, and you have to feed it.
Thriller author Lisa Scottoline • Talking about how the era of the e-book has increased her workload. She used to do one book a year; now she does two — writing at a pace of 2,000 words a day, seven days a week. Other authors are writing short stories for e-book formats as a promotional tool for their longer tales. The cause? A market that is more reluctant to pay full-price for a full-length book but thinks nothing of a 99-cent novella. Have your reading habits changed thanks to the Kindle and Nook? source (viafollow)
January 27, 2011
12:24 • 2 years ago
Ex-McCain staffer Mark Salter behind anonymous Obama book “O”: Step One: Write an anonymous novel about your ex-boss’ former opponent. Name it “O”. Step Two: ??? Step Three: Profit! source
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Ex-McCain staffer Mark Salter behind anonymous Obama book “O”: Step One: Write an anonymous novel about your ex-boss’ former opponent. Name it “O”. Step Two: ??? Step Three: Profit! source

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December 27, 2010
08:24 • 2 years ago

So, in case you couldn’t guess otherwise, Julian Assange is broke. Running a site like Wikileaks does not make one rich, and now that banks are clamping down on the organization, he’s forced to take desperate measures. Which means that the inevitable book is coming down the pipe a little sooner than anyone might have guessed. Which means, within a year, we’re going to see a movie, with Neil Patrick Harris playing our boy Julian. Probably. Anyway, here’s how much this autobiography thang is going to make him:

  • $502k coming from British publisher Canongate Books Ltd.
  • $800k more coming from American publisher Alfred A. Knopf
  • $1.7M total, which will go towards his legal defense source

» Our question: Will Bank of America, PayPal, Mastercard and Visa block payments to Knopf or Canongate Books? Because they’re directly helping Wikileaks.

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October 7, 2010
10:21 • 2 years ago
Show-off: Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize for literature: This Peruvian dude is the first Latin American Nobel Prize winner in literature since 1990. What you’re witnessing now is this guy’s head getting big. source

Show-off: Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize for literature: This Peruvian dude is the first Latin American Nobel Prize winner in literature since 1990. What you’re witnessing now is this guy’s head getting big. source

 

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