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February 20th, 2009

An Interview with the Father of Self-Publishing

Dan Poynter is without question the guru/godfather/father of self-publishing. Long before self-publishing became a cinch on the Internet, Dan was the leading practitioner and exponent of self-publishing. We’ve met a couple of times over the years, and I thought him very bright, charming and completely committed to the endeavor. Smashwords has a great interview with…

February 18th, 2009

“Reading Books on a Cell Phone is a Demented Idea”

“…the students I talk to (and I ask regularly) would go to lengths to avoid reading a book on the Internet, can’t fathom the price of Kindle, which looks like an old person’s appliance anyway, and think reading books on a cell phone is a demented idea.” — From a comment by Barbara Fister who…
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