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December 2008 Archives
What's killing book sales: We are
If we buy from used bookstores, anyway. According to Novelists, Inc -- a organization that purports to represent "multiple novelists" -- the rise of used book sales is severely threatening the publishing industry.The idea is...
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Never judge a book by its cover, because, yeesh
Author Jane Lindskold (the Firekeeper series, many others) is writing a multipart series of blog entries over at Tor.com detailing her opinions regarding the covers created for her books. Turns out that authors have very...
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Random House giving away free ebooks
If you're one of the lucky folks with an Amazon Kindle you can nab free versions of "Prague" by Arthur Phillips, "Caught Stealing" by Charlie Huston, "The Whiskey Rebels" by David Liss, "The Foreign Correspondent"...
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Holiday present idea #3: The Bro Code
Sometimes the best thing you can do for one of your bros is to point out just what he has done wrong, especially if it reflects poorly on your choice of bros. And toward that...
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Books make great gifts, apparently
Books = Gifts, a site from Random House, now has a video compilation of many different authors telling you exactly why that is. Elmo, Martha Stewart, Jon Stewart, Barbara Walters, Dean Koontz, Maya Angelou,...
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