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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Sweat from Tourists Putting Sistine Chapel at Risk
Christian Today
Who Knew Sweaty Tourists Were So Dangerous? With so many people traipsing through the Sistine Chapel every day, the paintings are suffering. What will the Sistine Chapel do to save these Renaissance masterpieces?
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Fiction Nearly Rivals Bible Purchases
Christian Retailing
At Least Folks Keep on Buying . . . ECPA’s latest report gives some interesting statistics on trends out there in the book- and Bible-buying world.
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
PDF vs. EPUB Comparison Explanation
Book Publishing News
I Thought I Knew That . . . Sometimes the alphabet soup of acronyms in publishing is confusing. Here’s an explanation of a couple of the ones we all think we know . . .
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Sotheby’s to sell rare Audubon “Birds of America”
Yahoo! News
A Book Collector’s Dream Now here’s a rare book auction where we’d like to be a fly on the wall—because we wouldn’t want to accidentally raise our hands!
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
A Seminal Novel Turns 50
BookPage
Tribute: To Kill a Mockingbird Her childhood friend, Truman Capote, appears in the book. Her friends believed in her writing dream and supported her for a year off to pursue her passion. In that year off, she produced a book that won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and a movie that garnered three Academy Awards.
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
The Rejection Letter of the Future Will Be Silence (And Why This Is a Good Thing)
Nathan Bransford
Filtering the Digital Deluge E-book self-publishing is changing the way authors succeed or fail. How should publishers and literary agents adapt to this new environment, and how should authors decide which route to take? Check out the lively discussion at Nathan Bransford’s blog.
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Molly Ringle Writes the Worst Sentence of 2010
Media Bistro
Here’s an Award to Be Proud Of! And the winner of this year’s contest for the "Worst Opening Sentence . . ." You editors out there? Take note!
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Will Digital License Plates Be The New Billboard?
Trend Watch
Don’t Text . . . But Read My Plate! Just as I try to get used to those annoying blue headlights on cars, now I might actually be mesmerized by the changing license plate in the car stopped ahead of me? Yikes!
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Joni Eareckson Tada to Undergo Surgery for Breast Cancer
Christian Post
Bestselling Author Needs Our Prayers Her books have sold millions and she’s been an inspiration to many more. Prayers for our friend Joni as she undergoes surgery for breast cancer.
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
100 Years Later, Mark Twain’s Autobiography Set to be Published
Fox News
His Dying Wish It’s been sitting in a vault for nearly a century. At the wishes of the author, who died in 1910, his autobiography will be released this year—one hundred years after his death.
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