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Self-Published Author Amanda Hocking Sells Over 1 Million e-books

Mary Pauline Lowry | Posted 01.30.2012

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Mary Pauline Lowry

Perhaps what "terrifies" publishers about Hocking is what she represents: a future in publishing in which writers have more agency over their work; and agents and editors no longer stand as gatekeepers between books and their audiences.

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WATCH: Artist Paints On Floppy Disks

Posted 08.28.2011

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Nick Gentry is a talented artist who just so happens to use floppy disks as his canvas. Gentry recycles outmoded technology into works of art. He does...

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UPDATED: Amanda Hocking Signs Four-Book Deal With St. Martin's Press

AP | By TARA BANNOW | Posted 05.25.2011

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AUSTIN, Minn. -- For more than five years, Amanda Hocking spent her days tending to disabled adults, making their meals and cleaning up after them. Wh...

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Janet Evanovich Leaves St. Martin's For Random House, Signs Four-Book Deal

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Here's a publishing plot twist: One of the book world's top moneymakers, Janet Evanovich, has switched literary homes. The author of...

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Book Publishing Gossip: Matthew Shear Named Publisher Of St. Martin's

Publishers Weekly | Jim Milliot | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matthew Shear, who as senior v-p and publisher for St. Martin's paperbacks and reference group oversees all of SMP's paperback operations, has been pr...

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Tea, Green: Five Experts Serve Up Their Favorite Eco-Friendly Brews

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Avital Binshtock

The tea industry has an ugly history of deforesting, damaging biodiversity, and using pesticides. To promote more enlightened sipping, we asked five experts to name their preferred brew.

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