Tag: bookselling
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April 02, 2008 08:39 PM EDT --
Amazon has launched a system similar to PayPal, that will allow people to use their Amazon accounts to pay for things from other stores. They also have a widget for Amazon Payments that you can put on . . . more
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September 07, 2007 04:17 PM EDT --
One of America’s greatest writers came to do a reading and sign her new book of short stories, The Museum of Dr. Moses, at The Mysterious Bookshop last week and, as usual, had fascinating things . . . more
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February 03, 2008 03:14 PM EST --
I have a confession to make: when it comes to things septic, I have a very weak constitution. Anywhere there's rot or decomposition, my stomach turns.
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August 05, 2007 08:45 AM EDT --
I tried to post this article but I'm clearly not up on cutting and pasting with Mozilla. Here's the link to my Blog and article as well as a link to Weber's site. It is always in a top . . . more
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September 05, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
Proving my amazing technical talents, my cutting-edge wizardry in the world of computers, I am writing something that will not be printed on a dead tree product but will find its way onto an electrical . . . more
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June 04, 2008 08:29 PM EDT --
Once Michael Seidenberg had a string of bookstores in New York City. Now, he has a secret one where he sells books by appointment only. But before these businesses, he sold books on the street. . . . more
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March 05, 2007 09:24 AM EST --
When author and film maven William Goldman had his famous epiphany - "Nobody knows anything" - he was writing about the film business and how movie makers, clueless to what "works" . . . more
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September 11, 2007 05:42 PM EDT --
A week after speaking, reading and signing her new book, The Museum of Dr. Moses, at the Mysterious Bookshop, Joyce did a similar event at Barnes & Noble (if you’ll pardon the language). Granted, . . . more
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February 19, 2007 08:01 AM EST --
Is it publishing's job to create a trend, or simply to make use of it? Sometimes, it seems that book publishers have been more skilled at the latter, producing insta-books, celebrity bios and me-too . . . more
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August 01, 2007 01:35 AM EDT --
Reeling from post-Potter syndrome and rolling into the 3rd quarter at work. Someday, this will all calm down and I can return to some degree of "normalcy" that I've not experienced . . . more
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February 26, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
One of my favorite little observations about publishing is that often, at the same time that people are going around complaining that the business is quiet, or dead – or that they haven’t read . . . more
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March 19, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
You may have noticed by now that I have a little "thing" about what I consider the "me-too"-ism of publishing. Why is it that when a book seems to come out of nowhere and suddenly succeeds . . . more
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July 02, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
Before we dive right in, I want to make clear that I make my living by selling books in a brick-and-mortar shop. I am biased toward shops and strongly oppose the price wars initiated by Amazon over . . . more
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June 30, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
Shelf Awareness is a daily newsletter for those in the bookselling trade, though anyone can subscribe. There's tons of information in it and I thought I'd sort of compress and paraphrase . . . more
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October 06, 2007 02:09 AM EDT --
by David A. Rozansky, Publisher, Flying Pen Press
October 6, 2007
Welcome to the first installment of my new Gather.com column, "Reading, Writing & Royalties." As this is the first . . . more
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October 06, 2007 02:41 PM EDT --
An Author’s Guide to Hand Selling Books
Part 1: Overview
by David A. Rozansky, Publisher, Flying Pen Press
Readers, Writers & Royalties columnist
October 6, 2007
[This is the first article . . . more
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October 12, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
The Rule of 5x5
Part 6 of An Author’s Guide to Hand Selling Books
by David A. Rozansky, Publisher, Flying Pen Press
Readers, Writers & Royalties columnist
October 12, 2007
[This is the . . . more
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October 17, 2007 08:12 PM EDT --
The Rule of Writing
Part 7 of An Author’s Guide to Hand Selling Books
by David A. Rozansky, Publisher, Flying Pen Press
Readers, Writers & Royalties columnist
October 17, 2007
Copyright 2007 . . . more
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October 19, 2007 05:35 PM EDT --
Final Thoughts
Part 9 of An Author’s Guide to Hand Selling Books
by David A. Rozansky, Publisher, Flying Pen Press
Readers, Writers & Royalties columnist
October 19, 2007
Copyright . . . more
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October 08, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
The Rule of Use
Part 2 of An Author’s Guide to Hand Selling Books
by David A. Rozansky, Publisher, Flying Pen Press
Readers, Writers & Royalties columnist
October 8, 2007
[This is the . . . more
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