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News You Can Use

By Steve Laubeon July 20, 2011
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Winnie the Pooh’s Cultural Dominance – A great slide show of the history of A.A. Milne’s character growing into a phenomenon. Did you know he sold the rights to Pooh in 1931 for $1,000 and a % of licensing fees? Today the licensing generates $5.6 billion in annual revenue. Wow.

Free Magazine on Writing – The July issue of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

Agent Andrew Wylie Stirs Things Up – Wylie capitalizes on the horrific situation at NewsCorp (parent company to HarperCollins) to toss some bombshells into their camp.

Wrestling with Writers Block? – Bob Spear provides some great advice.

Is Your Work Being Plagiarized on the Internet? – This is an excellent article with critical tools to determine if your work is being stolen.

What is the Best Time to Post Your Blog? – See this fascinating infographic. Does it match with your best practices?

The graphic can be found at Kissmetrics.

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Special Announcement

By Steve Laubeon July 15, 2011
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Congratulations to Kathi Macias, author of Red Ink (New Hope Publishers) for being given the 2011 Golden Scroll book award for Novel of the Year presented by the Advance Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA). This is a tremendous honor.
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We are also thrilled to announce that seven of our agency's clients have been named as finalists for the Carol Award presented by the …

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News You Can Use

By Steve Laubeon July 12, 2011
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How Much is My First Printing Going to Be? - Just-in-Time Inventory and efficient printing technology has made that question irrelevant. Richard Curtis helps writers understand the new lingo.

Owners of eReaders and Tablets Are Heavy Readers of Printed Versions ofMagazines and Newspapers - This is the headline from a recent survey taken of 26,000 people by Gfk MRI. Also noted that women are 52% …

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News You Can Use

By Steve Laubeon July 5, 2011
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Would John Locke Be Better Off with a Traditional Publisher? - Mike Shatzkin analyzes the revenue of million copy e-book selling author John Locke. The math is fascinating. According to Shatzkin, the author is making less than $30,000 per book. It is highly likely a traditional publisher would pay him a lot more for his work. Read the post. You decide.

Twenty-five Rejection Proof Markets - A …

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News You Can Use

By Steve Laubeon June 28, 2011
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A $30 iPad...for kids? - take a look at the new anaPad. Have to admire the entrepreneur, even when the idea seems a little odd.

Twitter Profile Mistakes - Excellent advice for writers who tweet.

Andrew Wylie in the Wall Street Journal Magazine - See what this uberagent has to say about the future of publishing. Especially note his thoughts on the global market.

Would James Joyce have used …

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News You Can Use

By Steve Laubeon June 21, 2011
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Thirty Three Twitter Feeds to Follow - The folks at Poets & Writers put together a helpful list of publishing and writing oriented twitter feeds to follow.

Kindle Spam Clogging Amazon - What a mess. Fake compiled books are being uploaded on the Kindle digital platform and sold to unsuspecting people. Another argument for Curation.

Google Books Creates Affiliate Program …

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HarperStudio is History

By Steve Laubeon April 5, 2010
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Back on March 17 I blogged about the changes at HarperStudio and asked if this could mean that division would close down. Today it was announced that it has come to pass, the division is no more.

HarperStudio had made big news by setting up a low advance model in exchange for high royalties. It was termed a "profit sharing" model. (of course define "profit" first... :-) ) Plus they sold their …

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