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Blog Entries by Warren Adler from 04/2012

Let's Hear it for the Self-Published Author

| Posted 04.06.2012
Read More: Book News, Warren Adler, Publishing, Writers, Writing, Fiction, Self-Publishing, Novelists, Author, News

"Self-publishing" is now a reasonably respectable process that allows anyone who writes a book to be digitally "shelved" alongside authors published by traditional routes.

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Voting Maybe

| Posted 04.13.2012
Read More: Polls, Politics, Candidate, Doctors, Advertising, America, Voting, News

I no longer take anything at face value. Like Freud asking, "What do women want?" I find myself asking this question without regard to gender...

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The E-Book Dilemma

| Posted 04.17.2012
Read More: Authors, Book Publishing, Writers, Books, E-Books, E-Readers, Publishers, Readers, Technology, News

For fiction authors who are published by traditional publishers and rely on advances and royalties for their living, the future is dim.

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The Pulitzer Judges Were Dead Wrong

| Posted 04.20.2012
Read More: Authors, Publishing, Judges, Books, Writing, Fiction, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize 2012, Pulitzer Prizes, News

Not one book was worthy? Does it follow that, in the opinion of the judges, the reading public last year was short-changed on the quality of what was on offer?

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Don't Believe the eBook Monopoly Ploy

| Posted 04.26.2012
Read More: Steve Jobs, Kindle, Apple, Books, Kobo, Steve Riggio, News, Bookstores, Amazon, Ipad, Barnes and Noble, Nook, Tablet, Bill Riley, News

The new ploy by book publishers is to characterize Amazon as a monopoly poised to take over and dictate terms and run rampant over those who create ebook content.

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