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American Author Contest (or, Why Writers Should Use Craigslist With Caution)

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Craigslist is a fantastic resource if you want to buy bikes, furniture, kitchen equipment, etc. There's some research involved, and the listings don't always work out, but if you're diligent, you can find some amazing deals. For writing jobs, though...not so much. It's pretty much a given that any agencies and publishers advertising for clients on Craigslist should be avoided. Let's just say that Craigslist is not a top literary venue; the best that can be said for these operations is that they're clueless (the worst, of course, is that they're...
Optimism on a Monday

Small booksellers are trying a new tactic: positive thinking. (Is this one of those “The Secret” things?) Either Nathan Whitlock or Nathaniel Whitmore, depending on whether you read the wee intro or byline , writes about the future of bookselling (ack). Even the big box stores were asked, with a straight face, no less, about how they feel about the future. Inclusive! Pessimism is often thought to be bred right into the genes of booksellers, who, after all, often watch helplessly as their charmingly shabby neighbourhoods go upscale, dragging rents up with them, or as the...
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There is ongoing demand for making websites with the emerging web based technology and growing businesses. People need websites for fulfilling their requirements but since until these days making a website was a great deal and it required more of technical knowledge to build it and publish it. But things have changed a lot these days; we are getting free websites which can be built with simple and basic internet knowledge. People doing business need websites to a great extent as the website helps in promoting the products world wide and thus increasing the demands of the products under...
Reflections on, Takeaways from #eBookSummit

mediabistro.com eBook Summit in New York by Mediabistro “I suppose we could sum up this entire two-day conference under the headline ‘too early to tell.’” –Steve Wasserman (Kneerim & Williams) I attended MediaBistro’s eBook Summit this week and Wasserman’s summation is perfect; consumer book publishing is smack in the middle of the digital transition, and solid answers about how it will all play out are hard to come by. That doesn’t mean, of course, that there aren’t plenty of people willing to throw their two cents (and millions of VC...
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