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		<title>E-Paperback Writer Sells a Million, Why Can&#8217;t I?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a story in The Telegraph about a John Locke (not the philosopher or the character from Lost), who has sold over a million copies of his book self-publishing on the Kindle.
More and more the Kindle as a market for books is sounding very attractive. After all, at the rate I’m going, I won’t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe Somebody Pissed in His Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my friend Cindy emails me this morning, telling me about this writer she&#8217;d published in the debut issue of Yellow Mama who requested that she remove his story and bio from the YM archive:
&#8220;I was wondering if you&#8217;d now be okay with removing it from the archives?&#160; This isn&#8217;t at all a comment on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Writer Thumbs His Nose at Traditional Publishers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Frey, the author or the faux-memoir A Million Little Pieces that embarrassed Oprah Winfrey (Heaven forbid!), is now taking on religion with his new novel, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, a story about the second coming. This book will be no less controversial than his first effort in that it Frey’s Jesus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Twain Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In America &#8211; as elsewhere &#8211; free speech is confined to the dead. — Mark Twain

So they are planning to remove the the “N” word from Huckleberry Finn. Samuel Clemens is rolling in his grave, I’m sure.
On one hand, this is not that big of a deal because the novel is in the public domain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Austen Would Probably Laugh About This</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to let you guys in on . . . well, I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s a secret, but a tidbit that some would not believe about me: I read Jane Austen. Yes, it&#8217;s true. I adore Jane Austen. So it is with a measure of both fascination and silent horror that I read [...]]]></description>
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