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Saturday-Eve-Day!
The Big Business of Dora: The AP describes the multibillion industry that is Dora the Explorer–over 50 million books sold!
Mark Twain’s New York: The NYT looks at New York via Twain’s footprints.
Easy ePub: Apple has made it very easy to create ePub files using its new iWork software. From Slashgear.
An E-book that Outsells Its Hardcover: One HarperCollins thriller has sold more copies in digital form than in print, reports the WSJ.
6-Year-Old Lands 23 Book Deal: What? Yup. A six-year-old UK boy just got a book deal for 23 books. He says he wants to be more famous than J.K. Rowling and Simon Cowell. From the Mirror.
Did Wylie Miss His Chance?: BNET thinks so.
Here’s a writer beware article with a warning about this publisher. http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-media-gets-it-wrong.html
6-Year-Old Lands 23 Book Deal: What? Nope.
That story in the Mirror says, “A boy of six has won a book deal worth thousands.”
Yup, it’s worth thousands, all right, but not to the boy. The press that offered that “mega deal for 23 books” is Strategic Book Publishing of Boca Raton, Florida, a notorious vanity press. They’re currently being sued by the Florida Attorney General for deceptive business practices.
The kid and his mom have been scammed. Do some research, people. It isn’t optional.
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