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shared by whoelscher on 30 Jan 13 - No Cached

Dealing with clients on a business-to-business basis seems to make honoring my invoice terms happen with significantly greater regularity than when I was seen — and treated – as merely an individual freelancer
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If I do need additional editors, then I hire them, not the client.
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I receive inquiries for work that goes beyond copyediting and into other aspects of the editorial/production process
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being viewed as a company rather than as an individual means being treated as the client would treat every other company vendor.
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Being a company doesn’t mean that you must have employees other than yourself.
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shared by Debera Daniel on 20 Jun 12 - No Cached

shared by whoelscher on 01 Feb 13 - No Cached

Over diversification. There is no law that says in order to do social well you have to be on EVERY SINGLE PLATFORM. Time to focus. Once you really understand what you want out of your social experience and you really understand how each platform performs…align those and go long.
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Companies and individuals need to share great stuff from others at least 80% of the time so they can EARN the right to talk about themselves without turning their audience off.
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shared by whoelscher on 14 May 12 - No Cached

double digit sales growth month by month over the last year.
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Imagine for a moment what it would feel like if people walked into your company and used the lobby to call your competitors and buy their products. That’s standard consumer behavior in a bookstore.
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To truly compete, he would also have to solve consumer’s expectations for instant gratification and delivery.
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Essentially, Jeff installed a printing press to close the inventory gap with Amazon.  The Espresso Book Machine sits in the middle of Harvard Book Store like a hi-tech visitor to an earlier era.
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can print nearly five million titles including Google Books that are in the public domain, as well as out of print titles. We’re talking beautiful, perfect bound paperbacks indistinguishable from books produced by major publishing houses.
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can print that book for you in approximately four minutes.
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get any book delivered the same day by an eco-friendly Metroped “pedal-truck,” or a bicycle, as I like to call them.
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fanatical attention to customer service
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Ultimately the bookstore exists to serve a community
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shared by whoelscher on 11 Jul 12 - No Cached

the nine independent publishers who finally took a stand: Abrams Books, Chronicle Books, Grove/Atlantic Inc. Chicago Review Press, Inc, New Directions Publishing Corp., W.W. Norton & Company, Perseus Books Group (where I work), the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, and Workman Publishing.
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the independent publishers asserted that, “in aggregate, according to market data published by Nielsen BookScan the independents accounted for approximately 49 percent of total trade book sales nationwide in 2011.” A significant portion of those sales were through Amazon, which is why their decision to challenge the settlement and incur the possible wrath of this retailing giant is cou rageous.
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If the agency model is effectively banned, Amazon will have the ability to price whole categories of e-books below cost in a way that is likely to drive out competition from other less deep-pocketed booksellers as well as brick and mortar booksellers.
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By effectively banning the agency model for the settling publishers, the proposed settlements would harm rather than enhance competition–enabling one large retailer (Amazon) to regain a monopoly or near monopoly position through below-cost pricing.
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shared by whoelscher on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached

EBooks accounted for 6.4% of all publishing in 2010, according to the American Association of Publishers, and 114 million electronic books were sold last year.
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EBook lending is growing at a fast pace at the New York Public Library. The number of downloads of electronic books on the library's website grew by 81% in the last 12 months
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why would someone pay for an eBook if they can download it free from a library's website?
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Several publishing companies were contacted for this story but none returned messages seeking comment.
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libraries make up 10% of all book sales in the United States each year
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Libraries across the country recently developed the ability to make their eBook downloads compatible with the Kindle, Amazon.com's eReader.
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She worries that libraries will lose their place in society as borrowing eBooks grows in popularity. "I think it will be sad. I mean there's just something about smelling the books and the whole experience," Salzano said. "It's like a feeling of calm and peace and you don't really get that anymore. You can't just sit and read a book."
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there are commercial bookstores; more than 16,000.
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