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		<title>Now John Sargent Has a Problem With Libraries</title>
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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 a Shame They Don&#8217;t Offer a Rejection Slip Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[editing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[random thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this dude who keeps submitting poems to me. Every day, he emails one poem to me. Imagine finding a really bad new poem in your inbox every single day by the same bad poet. Imagine this is in addition to dozens of other submissions by other writers that also arrive every single day.
Wouldn&#8217;t you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google or Bing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, Microsoft has been trying to come up with a viable alternative to Google&#8217;s famous search engine. The company&#8217;s latest attempt is a much-hyped &#34;decision engine&#34; called Bing. The question I had when I first saw the commercial for Bing was, is Bing a worthy alternative to Google? 
I decided to test Bing against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mad Editor&#8217;s Round-Up #17</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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Welcome to the March 8, 2010 edition of the mad editor&#8217;s round-up. 
 
Peta Jinnath Andersen presents Inkpop: A Virtual Slush Pile &#124; *Insert Literary Blog Name Here* posted at *Insert Literary Blog Name Here*, saying, &#34;2010 has seen the death of the slush pile. It’s been coming a long time–savvy writers have spent the [...]]]></description>
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