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The Words & Swords of The
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The Open Source CMS Renaissance--Empowering the Individual Creator. |
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| Future's in Your Hands |  This article from The Independent (UK) discusses the Internet's influence on the future of publishing. From the decentralization of mass media, to AI software that will scam the web for articles of interest to you, the next few years promise to bring many exciting changes to the world of publishing. But will the power simply transfer from publishers to advertisers?
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| The Internet Rocks--Not Really News to Most of Us | This article rocks. Tom Bradley writes, "Thanks to e-lit, our own universe-upending revolution, the center of literary power has shifted, suddenly, and for only the second time in history....Hence the existence, no doubt eventually fatal, of a powerful cadre of internet haters....Have you noticed how many books coming out of New York these days are dedicated not to the long-suffering spouses and children of the authors, but to their agents and editors?"
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| Corporate Publishing Houses Guilty of Literary Enrons | In this article about a new book lambasting the corporate publishing houses, The New York Post reports that, "In 'A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose' (Melville House), one-time Atlantic Monthly writer B.R. Myers claims that a vast conspiracy between corporate publishing houses, mediocre writers and mindless reviewers has robbed the nation of good, meaningful books." While Enron & Worldcom & Wallstreet are robbing the small investor, the corporate conglomerates are robbing the reader. Go NYPOST & Melville House!
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| Independent Publishers Succeed With Classics!!! | Moby Lives reports that "You walk into Barnes and Noble and what do you see? The bestsellers themselves, great tottering stacks of them threatening to kill you. You will wade deep into that shiny, brittle landscape, past vast deposits of Senior Franzen's bloated extravaganza before you find something that isn't new — before you find, say, 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger." Wiley independent publishers are beating the corporate hype machine where it matters--the classics!
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