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		<title>What&#8217;s a fair ebook royalty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a question that&#8217;s come up quite a bit lately with author and editor friends. Are the current standard ebook royalties (25 percent of receipts) fair? And if not, what would be fair? The argument for raising royalties to 50 percent or greater of receipts is that ebooks don&#8217;t cost publishers anything to produce: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=581&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Link Between Method Acting and Writing Believable Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one particularly funny episode of the TV series, Monk, a production company is filming a movie based on one of Mr. Monk’s cases. The method actor (played by Stanley Tucci), cast to play the detective, studies him so intensely, he develops the same phobias, quirks, and crime-solving skills. We’ve all heard of method actors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=577&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another disappointing column by The New York Times&#8217; public editor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clark Hoyt, The New York Times&#8217; public editor, has belatedly discovered that sources quoted by reporters may not always be disinterested observers of the issues on which they comment. Hoyt points to several people who were quoted by reporters who had business interests intertwined with the issues they were discussing. Included among these sources is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=569&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The next big thing in e-readers isn&#8217;t an e-reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blio is e-reading software that reviewers say blows away the Kindle, Nook and other e-readers. And best of all, it's free.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=564&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times and freelancers (A.K.A. filthy non-staff writer scum)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times' hypocrisy about freelancers and ethics is legend. The Times won't pay its reporters' expenses but cries foul when writers get expenses covered in other ways. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=553&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More.com gets into the writer exploitation game</title>
		<link>http://editorialconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/more-com-gets-into-the-writer-exploitation-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a writers listserv I subscribe to, a writer posted a message that she&#8217;d been asked to write for More.com &#8212; the online presence for More magazine. But&#8230; More.com wants her to write for free. And this writer wonders if it will be good exposure for her to do so. Here&#8217;s my take. You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=539&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The book contract is finally signed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[SOMETHING TO PROVE: Memoirs of a Ditchdigger's Daughter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to be able to tell the world, now that contract negotiations are complete, that SOMETHING TO PROVE: Memoirs of a Ditchdigger&#8217;s Daughter, by Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D., with Anita Bartholomew, will be published by Kaplan Publishing in Fall 2010. This book is the sequel to Yvonne&#8217;s earlier, bestselling memoir, THE DITCHDIGGER&#8217;S DAUGHTERS. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=533&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sales of ebooks nearly triple from 2008 to 2009</title>
		<link>http://editorialconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/sales-of-ebooks-nearly-triple-from-2008-to-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline says it all. E-Reads reports that, from August 2008 to August 2009, ebook sales shot up from $5 million to $14.4 million. This may be bad news for traditional publishers but it has the potential to be excellent news for the small publisher, especially the one-person shop, publishing his or her own title. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=528&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Demand Studios&#8217; exploitation of writers turned it into a billion dollar company</title>
		<link>http://editorialconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/how-demand-studios-exploitation-of-writers-turned-it-into-a-billion-dollar-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired has a fascinating article about Demand Studios, one of the word factories that regularly advertises for writers, only to exploit them. You can&#8217;t claim Demand pays writers peanuts. It&#8217;s more like peanut husks. It&#8217;s worth reading the article to learn how this sweatshop-type operation makes such big bucks. But here, we&#8217;re only concerned with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=524&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Noooooo, not Heathcliff, too</title>
		<link>http://editorialconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/noooooo-not-heathcliff-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved Interview With The Vampire, but that was probably the last vampire novel I could say anything remotely as positive about. Yet, I know I&#8217;m in the minority. Friends and colleagues swoon over Charlaine Harris&#8217;s vampire series and the Twilight books have probably outsold Harry Potter by now. But can&#8217;t we draw the line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=editorialconsultant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5201467&amp;post=521&amp;subd=editorialconsultant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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