I read with interest recently about the rise of the black market, a phenomenon taking place even in some of the more progressive economies like Canada and the USA. Some lesser developed nations have over half their GDP siphoning through the unregulated channel. Whole careers are sustained in the underground economy and entire industries function […]
Do we need a black market? We do, for our own good. Read More »
This is the last of Linda’s guest contributions, a topic near and dear to me, as I drown in regurgitated news items sent to me via social media and thirst for original insights that make us progress as a species. Thank you, Linda for joining my blog. Shane Make your world • by Linda LaRoche
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Amidst the hustle and bustle of deadlines, day jobs, family commitments, social networking, and the mere act of living from day to day, some of us try to carve out oases of quiet to rest the mind and the spirit in order to write. These are precious moments, diminishing as we age, for our fingers
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The year is almost over and it’s that time again of frantic shopping and binge merriment, of meeting people you haven’t seen since, well, last Christmas; a time of false camaraderie, of debt accumulation, of non•ending festive music, of crowds in malls and elevated blood pressure levels drowned out by copious quantities of eggnog and
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This is the second of Linda’s posts • for those who may be fearful of taking the leap into writing. Enjoy! Shane Those who say “yes” have more fun • by Linda La Roche August 11, 2011 How do we make that scary leap from thinking about writing to actually doing it? Now, I cannot
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This week I am featuring guest blogger, Linda LaRoche, an author and editor who teaches Creative Writing and Blogging at College of Southern Nevada. Linda shares my zest for travel and for getting to the heart of why we write. I hope you enjoy her blog and welcome your comments Happy reading! Shane No two
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I recently bought a small place back in the Big Smoke. A bold move for a guy with indeterminate income who had started to get comfortable in semi•retirement, writing books and playing guitar in his small town by the lake. I will have to work again – I mean, really work – to afford it
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The recent announcement by these players to advance up the book industry value chain from retailing to publishing comes as no surprise. In an industry which has many handoffs in its delivery process, and many players, each player muzzles for maximum turf over time. The ones upstream (i.e. the creators) try to advance down the
So Amazon and Kobo want to be Publishers, eh? Read More »
Let’s see, a hard cover is a hard cover no matter which bookstore you buy it from, and a trade paperback is the same. But an e•book? At the technology end, there are formats as diverse as Kindles and .epubs and PDFs and PDPs. On the distribution side, separate distribution agreements are required for Nook,
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I did not have the opportunity to go backpacking in Europe during my undergraduate years when it was a fashionable rite of passage among North Americans, and a safe one, for if you ran out of money you could always wire home for more. Although I did go to Europe once in my early twenties,
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