Today Peter and Peggy Brusseau discuss essays and blogs – what’s the difference? Why new media quickly becomes old – why the publishing business frequently gets it wrong in its online ventures – and where the opportunities lie for smaller publishers and the self-published.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reports on the shock news that HarperCollins is to close its Collins division: a startling and disturbing development that will blow a very chill wind through the whole publishing industry. And… drum roll… the oddest book titles of 2008 are being lined up.
In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she discovers a site that helps you if you’ve started a novel but are having trouble finishing it.
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