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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2310 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Many reporters at the 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch' periodical are anxious that Editor Cole Campbell's strategy to change the paper into a public journalism medium may fail.  read more »

This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1193 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Media News Group CEO William Dean Singleton focused on acquisitions as a primary growth strategy.  read more »

This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on February 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2249 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Four newspapers are fiercely competing for readership in the town of Edwardsville, IL.  read more »

This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on April 1, 1993. The length of the article is 3784 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: The financial success of the news magazine format in prime time television has created ethical problems because of pressure to generate a profit.  read more »

author: Paul Garrett asin: 0130303690 binding: Hardcover list price: $73.33 USD amazon price: $58.66 USD

This unique book explains the basic issues of classical and modern cryptography, and provides a self contained essential mathematical background in number theory, abstract algebra, and probability—with surveys of relevant parts of complexity theory and other things. A user-friendly, down-to-earth tone presents concretely motivated introductions to these topics.  read more »

asin: 1552662373 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD

Drawing from a collection of presentations made to a symposium on the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), this study helps farmers and nonfarmers better understand the essential role of the CWB in the lives of western wheat producers, their communities, and the Canadian economy. Supporting Prime Minister Harper’s neo-liberal open-market agenda, the book explains how it will guarantee corporate domination of Canadian grains.  read more »

author: Strobe Talbott asin: 0815783019 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD

In this revised edition of the highly praised Engaging India, Strobe Talbott updates his bestselling diplomatic account of America’s parallel negotiations with India and Pakistan over nuclear proliferation in the late 1990s. The update looks at recent nuclear dealings between India and the United States, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2005 visit to America. Under the highly controversial agreement that emerged, the United States would give India access to U.S. nuclear technology and conventional weapons systems.  read more »

Amazon's Buy Button

If you are a writer or someone interested in publishing, either through a vanity press or a print-on-demand publishing house, this is something which might be of interest to you. It certainly is, to me.

Amazon, a company that is nearly synonymous with online books sales, has recently decided to pull the trigger on a business strategy, which has writers and publishing houses getting twisted in private places. Their own POD(Print on Demand) fulfillment printing service, BookSurge. The issue at hand?

This quote from Writer's Weekly best describes the situation:

Reports have been trickling in from the POD underground that Amazon/BookSurge representatives have been approaching some Lightning Source customers, first by email introduction and then by phone (nobody at BookSurge seems to want to put anything in writing). When Lightning Source customers speak with the BookSurge representative, the reports say, they are basically told they can either have BookSurge start printing their books or the "buy" button on their Amazon.com book pages will be "turned off."
- Writers Weekly

Yes, it is somewhat problematic, when you consider that it takes quite a bit of time and effort to convert books. That Amazon's BookSurge might cost more and present less options than other POD(s). There is also the issue of this being a monopolistic move, which some industry groups may not be too happy about.

In either case, it is definitely something that has many small/mid-sized publishing houses in a stir, and the larger publishing houses, quietly considering their legal options:  read more »

• Writers Weekly
• Publishers Weekly
• Book Browse
• Amazon Damage Control PR Post