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Making money from writing online: Content Aggregators or blogging?

There was an article in the Nov/Dec ‘09 issue of Writer’s Digest (I’m behind, I know) all about content aggregators and I thought it was an interesting topic to cover over here. Chances are you know what those are even if you have never heard the term before.
Think of sites like the Examiner.com or [...]

For the writers in your life, give the gift of editing this holiday season (no, seriously!)

Your friend is a writer. You love your friend and you want to support their interests, but you don’t know what their specific plans are. After all, a gift subscription to Writer’s Market only works if they are planning to look for an agent and maybe your friend wants to self-publish. In the same vein, [...]

How important is the discussion board community on eBay?

On Friday, I opened a unholy can of worms with this statement:
I’m having a lot of trouble getting upset about the loss of community on eBay. That was always my least favorite part about it.
Shortly after making this statement on Twitter, I was both supported and attacked from both sides.
It is really hard to have [...]

Lulu.com loses NaNoWriMo partnership to Amazon’s CreateSpace

Right on the heels of the Nickelodeon partnership, CreateSpace has scored another partnership coup.
NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month, a month long free to enter contest held every November where writers try to write an entire novel (of a minimum 50,000 words) in 30 days. The contest is in its 10th years [...]