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E-Books: The Next Front for Journalists in Transition

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The next front is something quite different: e-books. The next new-media challenge for journalists, I suspect, will be a diametrically different area, covered by Carla King on MediaShift last Friday: E-books and self-publishing. But what journalist hasn’t thought at some point or another about going long-form and writing a book?

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Beware the Witch-Hunting Impulse

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By point nine—”I will never allow anyone to send out copies of my books to be reviewed”— I was suspicious. Get back to working on your books, not judging your peers.”. That lack of reserve leads all too readily to overreactions and unfair accusations. In each case, the acts are indefensible.

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Beware the Witch-Hunting Impulse

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By point nine—”I will never allow anyone to send out copies of my books to be reviewed”— I was suspicious. Get back to working on your books, not judging your peers.”. That lack of reserve leads all too readily to overreactions and unfair accusations. In each case, the acts are indefensible.

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5 Things I Learned from Self-Publishing

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Thanks to e-book and print-on-demand technology, the risks are low and the potential for rewards—though not perhaps of the kind you’d expect—high. As Seth Godin says of non-fiction book publishing , it’s an organized hobby, not a business: “The return on equity and return on time for authors and for publishers is horrendous.

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What Is the Lifespan of an Error?

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There has been much coverage lately of a new book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal called The Lifespan of a Fact. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the book itself, as Craig Silverman says , “isn’t, you know, factual.”. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the book itself, as Craig Silverman says , “isn’t, you know, factual.”. But it’s early yet.

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Monetize Your Typos

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A while back, I lamented how social media seem to lead inevitably to the decline of editing and proofreading. His “freemium” model includes free e-books and audiobooks, donations, a print-on-demand (POD) paperback, a premium hardcover edition, advertisements, and a commission fee for a new short story. Doctorow: Make money with typos.

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Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media

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For B2B journalists and editors, the transition to the social-media era can be daunting, especially if they rely on their employers to lead the way. Today, though, he works entirely for commercial concerns, creating, as he puts it elsewhere , “pure editorial that is, in and of itself, a lead-gen tool&#. Be an entrepreneur.