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• Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking
  For years, it was a schedule as predictable as a calendar: novelists who specialized in mysteries, thrillers and romance would write one book a year, output that was considered not only sufficient, but productive.

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• “Mao was a bad man, but he was a very good subject” – Interview with Chinese author Jung Chang
  "Mao was a bad man, but he was a very good subject” - Interview with Chinese author Jung Chang

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• Where Is Publishing Headed?: The Future Of Books In 7 Easy Steps
  Today, the publishing business is in turmoil. For 500 years, the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but today the industry finds itself faced with the greatest challenges since Gutenberg

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• Can E-Books Succeed Without Amazon?
  E-book author Victoria Hudson doesn't like Amazon or the power it seems to wield with independent writers. She didn't want to sell her book and short stories on its Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, something she calls "too restrictive to authors." Instead she chose an alternative book distributor based in the San Francisco Bay Area called Smashwords.

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• Daring to Cut Off Amazon
  Plenty of people are upset at Amazon these days, but it took a small publishing company whose best-known volume is a toilet-training tome to give the mighty Internet store the boot.

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