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new formats possible: Kindle Singles (between long article & book); old formats reborn: serialization re-publishing of existing information: blogs, newspaper archives books generated from YouTube comments, popular search queries, from statistics for sports articles, ... book as social network: author and reader commentary book "spam" / knockoffs (duplicate titles) reduced quality? (grammar, typos) due to speed, less human involvement Margaret Atwood's Brave New World Of Online Publishing Positron on Byliner.com; serial; 12/27/2012How Should An Author Be? writing/publishing process; 12/26/2012 Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds of Thousands of Books on Amazon computer system that can write books about specific subjects in about 20 minutes; 12/13/2012 3D book scanner eyes novels at 250 pages per minute 11/19/2012 The books Mark Twain ?dictated? from beyond the grave via Ouija Board; 11/4/2012 Why is an ebook ever riddled with typos? hasty OCR (Optical Character Recognition) from print, poor editing; poor feedback process; Amazon does not "push" updates; 10/26/2012 Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels 10/12/2012 Talking TidBITS and Take Control Books with Tonya Engst Tonya describes how her company has gone from writing and publishing printed books about how to get the most from Apple products to producing all books and articles in electronic format; 8/18/2012 Living Opps eBook Project Rogue Valley; Living Opportunities is partnering with Folium Partners to create an eBook by local authors, journalists, poets and creative writers; 8/17/2012 Amazon Deletes Ebooks Automatically Generated From YouTube Comments Leaving Many Questions Unanswered 6/13/2012 Ebooks Made of YouTube Comments Invade Amazon Kindle Store 6/12/2012 Nook version of War and Peace turns the word "kindled" into "Nookd" 6/1/2012 Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey, anyone?) Be careful when you select a bestseller to purchase on Amazon, where knock-offs are prevalent; 4/16/2012 Has China found the future of publishing? (self-publishing); 11/4/2011 How Freemium Self-published Fiction Is Taking Over China (web serials; 195 million readers); 11/1/2011 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 Subtext Livens Up E-Books With Author Commentary and Social Reading (shared annotations; subtext.com ); 10/25/2011 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 New Kindle Feature Lets You Ask Authors Questions 8/31/2011 Amazon continues on its mission to disintermediate publishers (@author feature ); 8/31/2011 Amazon Cracks Down on Some E-Book ?Publishers? (duplicates); 8/12/2011 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.com )
Book traversal links for E-books: Writing
