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		<title>Now John Sargent Has a Problem With Libraries</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macmillan chief, John Sargent has already demonstrated that he has no love of eBooks. But, according to statements made during a Q &#38; A session at the Publishing Point in NYC in response to a query by blogger, Eric Hellman, Sargent is no fan of eBooks in libraries either:
&#34;That is a very thorny problem&#34;, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilary Duff is Publishing a Novel, WTF!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who&#8217;s often lamented that mainstream publishers seem more interested in investing their time and money in producing low-rent crap rather than quality literature, my curiosity was piqued earlier, reading Robert McCrum&#8217;s piece in The Guardian book section, &#34;The best and worst times for publishing.
McCrumb refers to individuals such as myself as a &#34;New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Happening, Deal With It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mad Editor,
You can have your ebooks. For me, real paper books still rule.&#160; A story I read the other day in the online edition of the New York Times suggests that ebooks aren&#8217;t that big of a deal. I just can&#8217;t understand all this hype about ebooks.&#160; They don’t appear to be selling all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Magazines Swimming or Drowning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magazine publishers have kicked-in $90 million for an anti-Internet/pro-print mag ad campaign according to a reporting in Min Online. The first ad is said to be a two-page spread featuring an image of Olympic swim champ, Michael Phelps and a one-page essay titled “We surf the Internet, we swim in magazines.” The ad copy reads:
“The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Pathetic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knopf editor, Carole Baron has posted this editorial on The Huffington Post entitled &#34;Do You Really Need an Editor at a Publishing House?&#34; which makes a case for why editors are still necessary.
The first thing that struck me about his post is how desperate Baron sounds. She&#8217;s not really addressing most writers here — not [...]]]></description>
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