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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 [...]

Amazon ups the royalty rate for Kindle publishers to 70%

This goes out to all those people who sit there on the Amazon forums and complain about how expensive Kindle books are.
Previously, Amazon was only giving the publisher (which can also mean the author if it is a self-published book) 35% of the sales price. So if your book was, say, $1, the profits [...]

You *have* to post something on your blog every day!!! Or…what exactly?

I have been doing some thinking about blogging lately. I enjoy it, obviously, or I wouldn’t do it. But how important is it that I post something on here every single day?
Now, of course, this is one of 5 blogs I manage but it is also the one I post on the most frequently. For [...]

Rewrite that retweet! Fixing generic tweets with keywords & a better headline to provide more follower value

Someone you follow on Twitter sends out a tweet that says only, “This annoys me” and then a link. You like this person so and are bored at the moment so you click the link. It turns out to be a really helpful, informative blog post. Let’s say it’s about PayPal charge backs and how [...]