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Lulu now offering eBooks

Yep, you read that correctly. Lulu, a company known primarily as a PRINT on demand company, is now delving into eBook as well. They will offer optional DRM, Multi-Device Support (Mac, PC, iPhone, Sony Reader, and Stanza), and you’ll have your choice of formats (ePub and PDF with more on the way). And, to make [...]

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CNN has an article about a new novel, “Dracula the Un-Dead,” written by Dacre Stoker, the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, the author of the original “Dracula.” Please head over there and give the article a read, and then come back and tell us what you think. Should this book have been written? Does Dracula still [...]

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An article at Yahoo Finance today caught my attention. Let’s see if you can guess why…
This seems to be the heart of the matter:
The booksellers association fears that such prices are “devaluing the very concept of the book” and make it impossible for smaller stores to compete.
What do you think?

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Espresso is building steam

Is it wrong that I laugh at my own jokes? Anyway, thanks to friend and listener John McCarthy for letting us know about this article from The Boston Phoenix. Enjoy…
Here is a tidbit to whet your appetite.
Perhaps the model’s savior will be self-publishing: folks who want their poems, grandma’s recipes, or Great American Novel printed [...]

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Thanks to Yahoo for the story. Please click on the link to read the full story. The Cliffnotes version is – remember that Espresso Book Machine we mentioned in our last regular episode, and that was mentioned again in the Self Publishing DC Panel? Yeah, looks like Google has plans for that thing. Go to [...]

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