Category Archives: books

Actual Learning Happening

September 2, 2009 – 12:14 am

So I could not be more amazed right now. I knew that this site was going to be a bit of an uphill climb. It’s not every day you decide to just create a bunch of traffic out of thin air and then convince that traffic to buy books. It’s also incredibly easy to get [...]

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Selling Shovels: The Long Tail and Personal Branding

August 3, 2009 – 6:08 pm

A refresher course is probably in order for some with regards to the long tail. This may be new information to some, so the Cliffs Notes for the sake of this post is this: The long tail is a statistical phenomenon seen in a variety of marketplaces and social contexts, wherein 20% of the individuals/products/voices [...]

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Jeff VanderMeer's Finch Coming in November

August 3, 2009 – 2:17 am

I don’t know if you’ve read City of Saints & Madmen, or Shriek, but if you haven’t, then you’re missing out on some incredible writing by an author who also stands at the helm of speculative fiction, fantasy and sci fi, and tells us what is good. His blog (which I highly recommend) recently announced [...]

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