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A Warm Welcome, a Mission Statement, and the Ebook Revolution
Welcome to my new blog, which I'm told is a must for all serious authors. Many writers use this venue to plug their books, and I'll do some of that from time to time, but my intention is to use this...
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Wealth Redistribution, The Law of the Jungle & Seeds of Revolution
We look on with hope and concern as revolution breaks out across the Middle East, but as the world's great bastion of democracy we seem to consider ourselves immune from civil unrest. I think that's a...
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Free Ebook Reader!
No, this is not spam--although it's not a free iPad, either. But it is an invitation to join the ebook revolution at zero cost, using your existing electronic equipment. Free software programs by...
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Kindle Library Lending Program
Demonstrating my incredible influence in the publishing industry, less than a week after I endorsed the Nook Color over the Kindle in part because of the Nook's access to free library ebooks, Amazon...
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King of Paine Publication Date
As chronicled here and on my website, I've been struggling with the decision to self-publish KING OF PAINE, my second novel, or slog through the process of finding an agent and then a commercial...
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How To Publish Your Own Book At Zero Cost
In an earlier post, I wrote about the wealth of free and cheap material available for readers. Starting today, I'm going to show you how you can publish your own material--a novel, memoir, short...
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Converting a Word File to E-book Format
In yesterday's post, I chronicled how I cleaned up the manuscript for KING OF PAINE in preparation for e-book publication. In this one I'll show you how I converted the document to e-book format for...
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Designing Your Print Book Interior
My e-book version of KING OF PAINE is now proofread and substantially complete. The extra proofreading run on my Nook was well worth the time, as I discovered over a dozen minor errors (one proof...
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Tax Hike!!!!
My wife, Ellie, and I watch the Sunday morning news shows religiously each week. We usually remain fairly civil, even in the privacy of our own living room, but nobody brings out the wrath of the Kahns...
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Self-publisher Sells 1 Million Kindle Books--Now What?
Follow the link below to Mike Shatzkin's blog about John Locke's options after being the first self-publisher to sell one million Kindle books. The debate in the commentary between Shatzkin and Joe...
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Deficits, Taxes & Shared Pain
I'm not an economist, but I played one in college--well enough to know that if you put 100 economists in a room, you'll get at least a dozen inconsistent theories (and the makings for a really exciting...
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Blog And Website Consolidated
As the launch of King of Paine approaches, I concluded that my website needed a facelift. I converted from a clumsy Microsoft FrontPage98 site to a sleeker Wordpress version, which will now do double...
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