Monthly Archives: February 2008

And We’ll See Them Head-to-Head Too

Posted on February 29, 2008 by dmoynihan

My friends at Alley Insider have another tale of the Kindle explosion for publishing.  The latest to sample the fruits of Amazon’s hyper-fast-growing, high-income, azw-ebook-devouring customer base is Oxford University  Press, the UK academic house. Second best part of the … Continue reading →

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Not that it’s needed, but to clarify usage policy

Posted on February 29, 2008 by dmoynihan

I don’t know, I sorta thought Attribution non-commercial spoke for itself.  But anyway, if you’re a non-commercial site, please, feel free, link is nice, or source identifier in the file. If you want to reformat books, say for large print … Continue reading →

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First They End the Memphis Streak, Now This!

Posted on February 28, 2008 by dmoynihan

Another fun email to my business account: We hope that you will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Southern Festival of Books as it returns to Nashville permanently. … that’s an important bit of news: among book festivals, the Nashville … Continue reading →

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Kindle December Royalties!

Posted on February 28, 2008 by dmoynihan

Kinda… But they emailed me something… Payment Date,ASIN,Physical ISBN,Digital ISBN,Title,Author,Imprint,Format,Units Purchased,Units Refunded,Net Units,Net Units YTD,Adjustments Made,List Price,List Price Currency,Discount Percentage,Payment Amount,Payment Amount Currency, 01/01/08 B0012093EG 159654189X Celestine: The Diary of a Chambermaid “Mirbeau Octave” Olympia Press Kindle Book 1 0 … Continue reading →

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Review: Beautiful Children

Posted on February 28, 2008 by dmoynihan

By Charles Bock. Random House. $9.99 at the Kindle Store, free .pdf download for another day at the author’s site. Oh, critics, where’s the fire? How to put this: part of me likes this book.  Author has his moments, but, … Continue reading →

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Wait, is someone else doing Reeve?

Posted on February 27, 2008 by dmoynihan

Weird. Not a PG book, I don’t think.  Second one at Google books is missing pages/mixed up. Not an effort I intended to duplicate, but the Social Gangster was out there a month ago….

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Review: The Kid Was a Killer

Posted on February 26, 2008 by dmoynihan

By Caryl Chessman. For those not up on their histories of late-’50s cause celebre, Chessman was a death-row inmate who did a trio of books about his life and experiences.  Bit of an international outcry when he went to the … Continue reading →

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OK, I’m back

Posted on February 26, 2008 by dmoynihan

probably have to stop chronicling ebay sales: Kindle’s winning, but I’m licensing to a Sony reseller… COLA’s a cool town; especially if priceline gets you close to Vista. Things learned from the book festival: Ebook readers of any stripe are … Continue reading →

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In South Carolina

Posted on February 22, 2008 by dmoynihan

Had some wifi-issues, but those should be fixed now. /Caching’s back on, so site should be faster…

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You know, Future *Edited* Editions of this Work Will Take Out the Tobacco References

Posted on February 21, 2008 by dmoynihan

Found an odd Craig Kennedy at google Book Search.  There are parts where the work is clearly a product of its time.  Just saying… There were two others in the same stack> No intention to print, but we’re talking scans … Continue reading →

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