Were you a Girl Scout? For their diamond anniversary (2012) the Girl Scouts have undertaken an oral history project, which you can read about here: http://www.girlscoutsdiamonds.org/images/Oral_History.pdf (PDF). Note: "We also need Girl Scout alumni who are willing to share their Girl Scout experiences on camera Read More
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E-book sales taking off
August 2, 2010
Volume of Kindle book sales stuns Amazon's Jeff Bezos (USA Today's tech columnist Edward C. Baig interviews Bezos). The comments are as interesting as the article. An avid book reader, for examples, says, ". I have no way Read More
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Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
August 2, 2010
Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, the Guardian asked several authors for their personal do's and don'ts. Read what the following authors have to say: Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Read More
Happy (75th) birthday to the quality paperback!
July 31, 2010
"This week 75 years ago, Penguin brought out the first modern paperback," reports the Read Street blog (Baltimore Sun, 7-29-10). Penguin's first paperbacks were works by Ernest Hemingway, André Maurois and Agatha Christie. "They were colour coded Read More
Freemium, a business strategy that worked for one writer
July 30, 2010
Freemium, a business model in which you give away a substantial amount of a core product for free in order to generate revenue by selling a select few premium products to a small percentage of the freebie audience. Businesses that have used this mode include Skype (only 12% of users pay), Flat World Knowledge Read More