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		<title>Obama-gate and World War III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 03:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are the biggest losers from the slew of scandals now rocking the White House, but who are the biggest winners? Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, and Russia. If US foreign policy seemed spineless and muddled in confronting bad actors before the Benghazi-IRS-AP scandals surfaced, the US just became that much more irrelevant to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors Beware: Google Books is an Epic Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 11, 2013 I tried to email my contact at Google Books to discuss some serious defects in the service (detailed in the email below). If you&#8217;re an author considering Google Books and/or selling your book on Google Play, you may want to read through my email below, before you waste too much time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggest Challenge Facing a Self-Published Novelist: Book Marketing and Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Promoting a self-published novel (whether e-book or paperback) is a grueling, 24-7 grind. There&#8217;s pitching to book editors of major newspapers, authoring relevant articles (like this one that I published on Iranian nukes), creating a Facebook page for the book and regularly posting on it, tweeting, creating a website like this one and blogging on it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Reviews are Inevitable if Your Novel Generates Publicity or Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more attention and/or sales a novel generates, the more likely it is to get bad reviews driven by political zealotry, personal envy/malice, and/or sheer stupidity (among other possible causes that may have nothing to do with the merits of the book). In the case of my novel, there have been at least two reviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Book Publishing Suffers from Technical Glitches and Limited Promotional Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-book publishing is still in its infancy, and I learned the fun way that there may be technical glitches along the way. My rude introduction to this reality occurred on July 2, when – after months of continuous research and writing – I was finally ready to upload a finished manuscript in e-book format with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors of E-Book Novels Should Weigh the Pros and Cons of Printing a Paperback Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many readers, perhaps even a majority, still want to read physical books. While e-books offer many obvious advantages – lower costs for book buyers, book production without tree destruction, and the ability to lug around an entire public library in one&#8217;s backpack – there are myriad reasons why people still prefer physical books. Trees be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stigma of Self-published Novelist Means a far Heavier Burden of Proof on the Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(September 10, 2012)  By now, even people outside of the publishing world have heard of the wildly successful “50 Shades of Grey,” a self-published novel that led to a series that has reportedly sold over 40 million copies. That success, however, is such an outlier that it would be delusional for any self-published novelist to view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using an e-Book Novel to Influence Public Opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akiva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(September 10, 2012)  Last April, I began what would turn out to be a surprisingly arduous literary journey. Desperate to impact the public debate on the Iranian nuclear threat, I rearranged my life to revisit a dramatic story idea that I had originally conceived in 2009 as a concept for a screenplay about a doomsday, military [...]]]></description>
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