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Interesting reading for 03/31/08

MONEY With A Capital M-O-N-E-Y
(tags: writing advance royalty)

on writing less
(tags: writing books)


Shared reading for 03/24/08

Education Services Firm Follett Acquires E-Book Marketplace CafeScribe
A boost for electronic textbooks?
(tags: textbooks ebooks)

The Community Ecosystem
Chris Brogan on contributing to the social media ecosystem.
(tags: social media)

Micro Persuasion: Three Internet Careers That Soon Won’t Exist
(tags: business social media)

Experience, Social, Word of Mouth. Is it All Just Advertising?
“…Social Media” aside, I really have to wonder if what [...]


Things I read on 03/21/08

Barnes and Noble Reports 2007 Results
(tags: booksellers sales reports bn)

Borders, B&N Flirt Tentatively Through Media
“I think it would be the height of irresponsibility for us not to look at something presented to us. If they want us to take a look, we would be pleased to do so. We also feel we would be obliged [...]


Posts of note for 03/20/08

Teleclass: Reality 101: Marketing Your Book in the Age of Information Overload
(tags: marketing books telecast)

BookRabbit
New book social net
(tags: books social media)

Wireless Spectrum Winners Are Revealed; Google Bids But Verizon Wins
(tags: wireless google verizon)

Borders Conference Call Update
(tags: borders books)

Where Customers Submit, Discuss, and Vote, Ideas Starbucks “My Starbucks Ideas”
(tags: starbucks social media)


Posts of note for 03/19/08

5 Years at Microsoft
Wrox Author Ben Armstrong on 5 years with Microsoft.
(tags: microsoft)

Truly Absurd Ideas
(tags: innovation video)

Which social media technology matters most?
(tags: social media)

Freakonomics Covers From Around the World
Always fun to see your book cover translated.
(tags: book cover design)