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Publishing

Books Are a Hard Sell – washingtonpost.com

January 23, 2007

Never mind reading entire books. Who has time for that? Librarians these days are information specialists teaching information literacy. A Librarian’s Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell – washingtonpost.com

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Giving It Away – Forbes.com

December 20, 2006

We’re used to seeing books on, say, computer programming given away free online, as contributions to the Open Source movement, or as marketing to enhance the author’s stature (or Google rank) just before the publication of his next non-free book. You don’t see many novelists giving away free electronic access to their works. Cory Doctorow [...]

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Michiko Kakutani By Ben Yagoda

April 11, 2006

Many authors fear Michiko Kakutani, book critic for the daily edition of The New York Times, because if she doesn’t like your book she can make you wish you’d gone into the heating and air conditioning business. Slate’s Ben Yagoda takes a more balanced view and assesses her twenty-five years of reviewing books at The [...]

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Plagiarism?

March 7, 2006

Albert Einstein said, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” In Plagiary, It’s Crawling All Over Me, Joseph Epstein examines “the blurry line between a paraphrase and a lift.”

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Would My Book Make A Good Movie?

February 23, 2006

Books and movies are two different languages. To compare the two is like comparing pottery and stained glass. –Russel Banks Probably half the movies made in Hollywood are adaptations of stories that originally appeared as novels, nonfiction books, comic books, short stories, plays, poems, or what have you. Hollywood studios and production companies aggressively scan [...]

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