In this post I’m not going to use political euphemisms. I am going to name people or groups of people according to their function rather than what the name implies. My goal is not to join any particular group as much as it is to remain independent and unaffected by this game. There are four [...]

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There are a lot of popular misconceptions about book publishing. I think these are not so much due to not understanding the process but more in terms of understanding the magnitudes of the numbers involved. Disclaimer: I may even get some of the numbers below wrong! In the US alone, more than 200,000 books are [...]

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Well, there you go. I have no control over what amazon does with the retail price. It’s within their prerogative to reduce the price to increase their income. This may or may not last. Needless to say it’s hard for me to compete with that in terms of discounts. As far as I can compute [...]

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