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Introduction

• writing: different genres/content/length, e.g., republished blogs; essays, "spam" (duplicate); expectations (media), reader interaction
• publishing: faster process; self-publishing; role of publishers, agents, editors
• selling: lower cost; royalties; excerpts vs. browsing; copyright; piracy
• self-publishing: covered later in more detail

Writing

• Hey, book authors! Has Hyperink got a deal for you! (freelance journalists hired as ghostwriters to interview experts about topic (derived from search queries), and then write books for them); 10/27/2011
• Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote? 10/9/2011
• In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column (Computer Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction); 9/11/2011
• Amazon continues on its mission to disintermediate publishers (@author feature); 8/31/2011
• Kindle Spam Is A Filter Issue, Not A Spam Issue 6/20/2011
• Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing 6/16/2011
• At Home on the Farm and in E-Books between a long article or essay and a book; 5/19/2011 (Kindle Singles; Byliner.com; Atavist.net)

Publishing

• Google Points Out That What The Authors Guild Wants And What Authors Want Are Two Very Different Things 5/4/2012
• Who’s the bestselling author of all time on the Kindle? Suzanne Collins; 3/21/2012
• How I Became a Best-Selling Author (Darcie Chan; The Mill River Recluse); 12/9/2011
• Kobo to become a publisher (complete publishing services for authors, including book editing and design); 10/26/2011
• Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal 10/17/2011
• Balance of power continues to shift in the e-book wars (self-publishers; marketing); 8/22/2011
• Book industry balance continues to tilt towards the author (John Green, Amanda Hocking); 7/1/2011
• Meet The First Indie Publisher To Sell A Million Kindle Books (John Locke); 6/20/2011
• Mystery Writers Of America: Real Writers Don't Self-Publish 6/12/2011
• Five Tools For Self-Publishing Your eBook 5/4/2011
• Ebooks and Self-Publishing - A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath 3/29/2011
• Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod Authoring

Selling

• Paulo Coelho Ebook Sales Jump Way Up Thanks To $0.99 Sale 4,000+%; 5/4/2012
• KDP Select: A $6 Million Fund for (exclusive) Kindle Direct Publishing Authors and Publishers 12/8/2011
• Subtext Livens Up E-Books With Author Commentary and Social Reading (shared annotations; subtext.com); 10/25/2011
• Authors to Get Sales Data Online From 3 Big Publishers (Simon&Schuster; Random House; Hachette vs. Amazon); 10/20/2011
• The Amazon Publishing ‘Premium’: $100,000? (for Penny Marshall's memoir); 10/12/2011
• Your favorite author, brought to you by a wealthy patron (as copyright erodes and the book industry changes, a combination of Kickstarter.com and the rich might fund writers); 10/5/2011
• Best-Selling Author Gives Away His Work (Paulo Coelho); 9/27/2011
• Authors' Lawsuit Seeks the Removal of a Digital Book Collection 9/13/2011
• New Kindle Feature Lets You Ask Authors Questions 8/31/2011
• Author Says eBooks Will Hurt Authors Because Of Royalty Rates 8/18/2011
• How Do I Get My E-Book Signed? 5/23/2011
• Does It Make Sense To Autograph Ebooks? 5/18/2011
• This 26-Year-Old Is Making Millions Cutting Out Traditional Publishers With Amazon Kindle (indie author Amanda Hocking); 2/28/2011
• 70%: Amazon Self publishing
• Apple Royalties
• Poison Oak and Poison Ivy Survival Guide Coleman Creek Press, Ashland

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