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I found the article empty of signficant meaning. The essay's title doesn't match the essay itself, a firm assertion the essay doesn't realize. The essay "begs the question," assumes the conclusion and never supports the argument's claim basis, doesn't assert a signficant claim in the first...

"Aggregators" have popped up in response to "the hassles" of coping with individual distribution outlets' manifold proprietary formats, notably due to DRM concerns: Distribution Rights Management. Many aggregators are "middleman" revenue pirates and also have reputation...

Standard Manuscript Format avoids any adjustments such as word breaks, shy hyphenation, widow and orphan lines, etc. No formatting whatsoever excpet for basic page layout is SMF. Standard Publication Format is a house publication designer's prerogative. The house style sets practices, sometimes depe...

Infringement is where litigation and timely copyright registration benefits acrue. A DBA alias is a benefit if a writer wishes to legally conduct business activities under the alias. Whether a writer's pseudonym needs to be a public record statutory alias depends on whether a writer wants to do busi...

Copyright starts when a creative work is in a fixed and tangible form: manuscript, DVD, audio recording, music score, computer application, etc., not necessarily paper, and is at least machine receivable. A copyright notice only notes that otherwise superfluous detail of when the copyright clock sta...

Publishing culture generally withholds payment until a sales threshold is met; roughly $50.00 or so is the current trend. Whether to self-publish the next novel or publish through an established publisher is a personal choice. Maybe the choice is not a matter of where the most revenue comes from, wh...

CreateSpace is one of three economical print book manufacturers and online distributors: Lulu and Xlibris the other two, each with advantages and disadavantges that weigh decisions. Each is sales driven as regards writer revenue and manufacturer revenue, similar cost, profit, and revenue metrics mor...

Stories with more than one viewpoint for young adult readers focus on themes relevant for young adult issues, the theme the interest of greatest appeal. However, one character should have a greater role than the other character or characters in at least one area, so readers care most about that char...

I don't see ISBN assignments as a particular cost bar to small publishers. For similar reasons I won't accept a CreateSpace or Lulu or Lightning Source ISBN assignment I would reluctantly accept one from a small publisher. Ten and thirteen digit ISBNs associate a second or more generation source age...

"Publishing" usually signals a firm, a company, a work group of editors and office staff, often a place name. Zanadu Publishing "Publisher" usually signals a named person or persons who are the owners and chief executives, often a person's surname or full name, etc. Lerue Publish...

Each of the "Four Things to Avoid on Page One" boil down to a writing first principle espoused millenia ago in The Poetics of Aristotle : Dramatic Complication, which, though not defined in the text, is antagonizing wants and problems wanting satisfaction, problems themselves wants and, vi...

The night deals a hand where murder, robbery, and all-around mayhem are in the cards, and with it a path to redemption for Martin as he gambles with more than just money at The Reverie Casino. --- …I've been told that the last paragraph shouldn't have the second comma. I was told the reasoning is b...

Windows operating system; Word, WordPerfect, Case Catalyst, Notespad, InDesign, CorelDraw softwares. MacIntosh systems support similar apps and softwares. The one criteria is inputting the clip entities into their associated shortcut keystrokes or category lists not installed by default. Some of the...

Several of my wordprocessor programs' apps have an easy text clip file feature. Character entities like accute accent E for cliché and grave accent A for vis-à-vis are a few keystrokes. I have a large number of these "ligatures" as they are labeled by typesetters and a host of other symbol...

Several questions are for me important to a well-crafted narrative. What does the protagonist want, how does she or he strive to get it, and what problems prevent her or him from getting it, or vice versa what problem arises that causes the protagonist to want to strive to satisfy the problem. What ...