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	<title>TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics &#187; Court Merrigan</title>
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		<title>What is good writing? What is successful writing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿I have spent the last years not making a living at being a writer; in particular the last 4 writing 2 novel manuscripts.  The first  went nowhere.  The second may soon follow suit. For nearly all of that time I had as my credo an outlook very similar to this one, as outlined by Douglas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pindeldyboz folds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pindeldyboz published my very first published short story, &#8220;In Hiding&#8221;, back in January of 2004. (Man, that seems like a long time ago.)I&#8217;m still rather fond of this story, for sentimental reasons, if not aesthetic reasons. Now comes the news that Pindeldyboz is folding. Says Whitney Pastorek, founding editor: In celebration of the 10th anniversary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concentration by Court Merrigan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Meadows recently wrote on the sapping of our attention spans. In between clicks away to gmail, Facebook, and Chris&#8217;s own links, I was just able to read through to the end, and the comments after. Now perhaps I am merely mentally lazy and weak, as Steve Jordan suggests, but I don&#8217;t think reclaiming your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Three-Legged Dog&#8217;: A breast lost to cancer, an enduring love, and the art of Single Sentence Animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billing itself as “Reading That’s Bad For You,” Electric LIterature proclaims that its mission “is to use new media and innovative distribution to return the short story to a place of prominence in popular culture.” EL is tired of hearing about the death of literary fiction. It believes in the future. You certainly have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why B&amp;N called it the Nook: Maybe because they&#8217;re Dr. Seuss fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David and others may see some double entendre in Barnes &#38; Noble’s new Nook&#60;, but not me. Maybe I’m just hopelessly naïve, but not only does the Book Nook in my hometown represent my earliest childhood memory of a bookstore, but I also have a two-year old in my house.&#160; So naturally the first thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: &#8216;American Fever,&#8217; by Peter Christian Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I took my family to get a seasonal flu vaccine. We waited in a line that extended to the sidewalk with hundreds of others, eyeing every cough and sneeze and sniffle with suspicion. This in my unassuming hometown (pop. 14000), where everyone knows everyone. Imagine such a scene in, say, New York.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The library upstairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a job.&#160; At this job I can walk upstairs and go into the library.&#160; This makes me happy. We’ll know that e-books have well and truly arrived on the day an e-reader evokes a similar response. Even better, I now have access to a state-wide network of libraries and, better still, the entire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If this is the future of the novel, the novel is finished</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reminder: These are Court’s personal opinions. Furlong fans are welcome to speak up in the comments area. – D.R. Today’s entry on the future of literature comes from Nicola Furlong, self-identified “shameless self-promoter” and Canadian writer of mysteries. Furlong has produced a multimedia novel entitled Unnatural States.&#160; It is certainly multimedia.&#160; Whether it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E vs. P: Snarky vids alone can&#8217;t save the Green Apple bookstore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planning an overnight layover in San Francisco a few years back, I asked a friend from the Bay Area what the best used bookstore in town was. Without hesitation, he said, “Green Apple Books.”&#160; So I went there.&#160; It’s just what you’d expect: the slightly standoffish clerks, the vast selection of Buddhist-themed tomes, the glowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny Snarkmarket&#8217;s &#8216;free&#8217; strategy: 200 hardcover copies of &#8216;New Liberal Arts&#8217; sold in just eight hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More innovation in publishing: Snarkmarket sold 200 hardcover copies of its book New Liberal Arts at $8.99 a pop, after which it put a free Creative Commons-licensed PDF up for anyone and everyone. So Snarkmarket make itself a cool $1,800 (less production costs, of course) before releasing the book into infinity. Aside from the PDF’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real risk to books: Not Google or Amazon but lack of a comprehensive TeleRead approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In A Book Grab by Google, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle warns that the Google Book Search Settlement would be “privatizing our libraries.” He says “The settlement outlines business models for creating and selling electronic editions of books, and selling subscriptions to Google&#8217;s new exclusive library… “Google would get an explicit, perpetual license to scan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids to learn about e-books, free classics and related topics: Your own idea for Court&#8217;s classes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 10:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TeleRead book reviewer Court Merrigan will be teaching Upward Bound kids in a summer program. Feed him ideas. Here’s one: Blogging would be a great medium for the kids’ book reviews. Second photo is from a UB project unrelated to his. – D.R. Blogs and e-books for high-risk, high potential kids? Topics like those are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Espresso Machine, an ATM for books: Will e-books suffer if it takes off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop the presses, as it were. The Espresso Book Machine “can print and bind books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait,” according to the Guardian. Currently it has access to 500,000 books, but the British bookseller Blackwell’s hopes to increase this to over a million titles by the end of the summer&#8212;the equivalent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Who is Mark Twain?&#8217; reviewed: 24 essays in hardback and a DRM-free e-book&#8212;priced together at $19.99</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a decided uptick in interest in Mark Twain recently. All to the good: the great satirist deserves as large an audience as he get in this and any other time. Now HarperStudio is getting in the game with its release of Who is Mark Twain?, a collection of 24 previously unpublished essays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Password Incorrect&#8217;: Zany collection of &#8216;tech-absurd&#8217; short stories by &#8216;Nick Name&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Court Merrigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Password Incorrect is a truly zany collection of “tech-absurd” short stories by Nick Name, pen name for Polish author Piotr Kowalczyk, which only a networked world could have unleashed. It’s available for free from Feedbooks. Start with the title story to see the absurd in action. My Kindle sat untouched for a couple weeks while [...]]]></description>
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