The latest Author Earnings report looks at Amazon UK, the second-biggest market for ebooks in English.
Most of the findings are not surprising. There’s a clear difference in book pricing from large publishers, which has the effect you would expect.
The surprising finding, though, is that indies are significantly outperforming traditional publishing in selling books across both markets (US and UK) rather than just their local market.
This is a common error.
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Originally shared by Karen Conlin
Anymore or any more?
“Anymore” means “any longer, to any further extent.” I can’t walk anymore.
“Any more” means, well — any more of something. I can’t eat any more. Of what? Turkey, perhaps, or cheesecake, or polenta, or doughnuts . . . or maybe just “food.” It’s not necessary to specify precisely what you can’t eat more of, but it’s also not wrong if it makes sense to do so.
I can’t eat any more pizza. I don’t like it anymore. (That’s alarming, I’m sure.)
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Today, standoutbooks encourages writers to play a little and figure out what they can do without, inspired by these experimental works.
I know I had a lot of fun, and learned a lot, from writing Gu, a novella told in second person and cast in the form of a documentary about a fictional technology.
https://www.standoutbooks.com/writing-inspiration-experimental-books/
Disturbing and full of contradictions, a non-statist, secular, feminist region in Kurdish Syria struggles with ideology and the nearby war – and maybe gives us a hint of what some future governments might look like.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html
Came across this via a post on Goodreads. May be of interest if you’re starting out freelancing, but already reasonably competent.
I’ve always liked these.
Originally shared by Laura Gibbs
From the Twitterz. I’ve seen these rules in various blog posts, but this is the first nice graphical presentation that I’ve found!
Plants with wires in. Relevant to my interests.
Originally shared by Larry Panozzo
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Another very impressive week in technology!
Check it all out in the links below!
🔹 $5 Computer from Rasberry Pi
http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/26/raspberry-pi-zero/
🔹 E-Plants
🔹 LiFi 100x faster than WiFi
🔹 Hiring Algorithm Better than Humans
🔹 Spot Trains with the Marines
🔹 Affordable Medical Imaging
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-biomedical-imaging-one-thousandth.html
🔹 VR Surgery
🔹 Bitcoin Debit Card
https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/11/20/introducing-the-shift-card/
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Cloth has, historically, been a huge driver of innovation and economics.
Originally shared by Deborah Teramis Christian
In this post, sf novelist Charles Stross speculates on the future of 3d printed fabrics.
(If you think you saw this before from me you probably did; am reposting this to get it into my 3D Printing collection, along with the rest of the spate of 3d reposts you’ll see from me shortly.)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/11/the-next-revolution-will-not-b.html
“I have built a working miniature replica of the patriarchy in my mind. I would like very much to bust it up or burn it down. But I am afraid I don’t know how. Though I do have some ideas.”
Originally shared by Josh Roby
Pervasive interaction with computers that know your context. With inspiration from Star Trek.
Via Yonatan Zunger, who’s involved (though not named in the article).