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In the World of Publishing, You Get What You Don’t Pay For

In my last post, I mentioned that I’ve been getting into electronic books lately—publishing stuff from my blog, re-releasing my novel, writing an ebook about creating ebooks. But I won’t bat you over the head with a lot of marketing hype right now. I’ll save that for later. If you want to know more, check [...]

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Kindle and ePub and iBooks, Oh My

In 1440, or somewhere thereabouts, Johannes Gutenberg invented the now infamous printing press. Combining existing corkscrew technologies with a few inventions of his own, moveable type being the most notable, Gutenberg came up with a device that could print 3,000 pages a day—a damn good showing if you consider that the average turnout at the [...]

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The Boys Club

I’m on Key West, the island of Margaritaville, Sloppy Joe’s, and those lovable, laughable rebels of the Conch Republic. I’m staying in a small hotel that’s made up of four century-old houses strung together by an assortment of wooden decks and a sprawling tropical garden. Across the street from me sits Ernest Hemingway’s home, a [...]

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