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Should Authors Be Paid By The Book Or The Page?

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This week we discussed: If you ever needed a reason to switch your old Hotmail or Yahoo email address over to Google 's Gmail , this may be the reason. What if Amazon took that tune, and spun it for books, but in a weird way? What if Amazon only paid authors based on how many pages people read of a book? amazon self publish.

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Twitter’s Biz Stone speaks at CIRA’s AGM

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It is transforming the global media and publishing industries and turns ordinary people into philanthropists. Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone to pen book. Biz Stone’s Yahoo Turnaround Solution for Marissa Mayer: Move HQ to the Big Apple (Watch Out, Arianna!). Two items of note about Biz Stone’s speech.

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The Fleeting Value Of Content

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Yes, the best content always rises to the top, but when the amount of content being produced rises exponentially and is being published at a frenetic pace, it becomes a lot harder for individuals to filter the signal from the noise. Publishing content is free. Being a publisher is very hard. No matter how good the content is.

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The Suckiness Of Brands With Bernie Schroeder - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

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If you're going to write and publish a book called, Brands and Bulls**t - Excel at the Former, Avoid the Latter. He became a brand expert and helped to launch brands like Yahoo! Back in 2015, he published his first book, Fail Fast or Win Big. His second book, Simply Brilliant , came out in 2016. and Amazon.

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The Suckiness Of Brands With Bernie Schroeder - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

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If you're going to write and publish a book called, Brands and Bulls**t - Excel at the Former, Avoid the Latter. He became a brand expert and helped to launch brands like Yahoo! Back in 2015, he published his first book, Fail Fast or Win Big. His second book, Simply Brilliant , came out in 2016. and Amazon.

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My Love Affair With Pocket

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You would think that with all of this technology and content that we''re constantly creating, publishing and reading, that it would be a whole lot simpler to save, share and consume it. business book. publishing. Where do you save and read your online content? It''s a mess. A system to save and find content. in one click.

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In Conversation With Seth Godin

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Rather than take a handsome advance from a major book publisher, the best-selling business book author (each of his 13 published books have been best-sellers and collectively have been translated into more than 30 languages), published his latest effort, Poke The Box , on his own book publishing imprint, The Domino Project (powered by Amazon ).