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10.30.09Writer Publishes New Novel Directly To Readers For $1[caption id="attachment_552" align="alignnone" width="480" caption=""][/caption] Self-publishing isn't a new concept, but with every new development in e-publishing it becomes a more viable option for some writers. Here's a guy who's bypassing both vanity-presses and mainstream publishers by getting readers to pitch in and pay him directly for a book before he's even written published it. Call it a reader-funded advance. Robin Sloan is a blogger who previously published a short story, Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store, on the Kindle (you can buy it here for 99 cents). I stumbled across him on Kickstarter, a website where people can post ideas for projects ...
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03.07.09Amazon’s “Kindle for iPhone” sets ebooks free from your KindleIt didn't take long for Amazon to make good on its promise to expand into mobile territory. Last week, only a couple of weeks after releasing the Kindle 2, an official app showed up on the iTunes App Store that allows you to read your Kindle ebooks (but not mags or newspapers) on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Here's a first look at how the app works, including what it does well and doesn't do at all. Perhaps even more interesting, though, is that for the first time, customers who don't own a Kindle can purchase Kindle ebooks. This throws open ...
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07.27.08Screens: Jane AustenThomas K. wrote, "Is there any chance you just might find a picture good enough for our kindle of Jane Austen?"
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06.30.08Screen: Edgar Allen Poe #2Here's a larger version of Poe, looking sufficiently melancholy. Probably thinking of what rhymes with sepulchre or something like that.
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06.30.08Screen: Edgar Allen Poe #1A reader asked me about a Poe screensaver, so I decided to make one. My god, he looks gloomy. That's Poe for ya.
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