Ditto is a social entertainment guide that compiles lists… and one of those complied lists is titled “Rock Stars of Web 2.0”
The list includes such power players as Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net, Larry Page of Google, Ev Williams of Twitter and Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress.
However, the one individual that leads the list is Clay Shirky, [...]

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Selling books is hard… I don’t care if you’re Simon and Schuster or a self published POD author. The competition to sell books is FIERCE.
With this in mind, many authors have an unrealistic expectation of “success”.
One way to rephrase this question is “How many books will I have to sell to break even?”
If you’re [...]

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Things have really settled down on the Amazon/Booksurge front and I wondered if this whole “consumer outcry” was having any effect on Amazon’s web traffic, so I headed over to over to Compete.com and entered amazon.com in one box and for kicks and giggles entered barnesandnoble.com in the other.
For those of you who don’t know, [...]

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