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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 829 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.Citation DetailsTitle: The Swift boat conundrum: how should the mainstream media deal with such stories?(Full Court Press)(responding to controversial charges)  read more »

This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on January 1, 1998. The length of the article is 784 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: Charles Boesch, who admitted to cocaine use, pleaded no contest to charges of embezzling nearly $800,000 between 1993 and 1997 from the Los Angeles Times.  read more »

This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on May 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1195 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: Pulitzer Publishing Co.'s annual stockholders' meeting held on May 11, 1994, focused on labor contracts and other labor-related issues raised by St. Louis Newspaper Guild members.  read more »

This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on May 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1902 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: St. Louis Newspaper Guild members intervened at the Pulitzer Publishing Co.'s annual shareholders' meeting held on May 11, 1994, to present the plight of the company's workers.  read more »

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author: Peter Bowerman asin: 0967059844 binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $13.57 USD

Booklist In this era of entrepreneurialism, Atlanta freelancer Peter Bowerman shows those timid (but talented) souls how almost anyone can forge ahead as an independent writer. His advice is good, couched in brassy prose that is easy to read. He anticipates every conceivable question and issue, including typical charges, marketing oneself, types of available work, and dealing with deadbeats. There are great common-sense tips, too, in the psychology of handling clients who think they’re writers, those with limited budgets, and others demanding creativity.  read more »

author: P. Essers asin: 9041116737 binding: Paperback list price: $60.40 USD amazon price: $60.40 USD

The main goal of this seminar is to clarify on the basis of case studies what is meant by the concept of abusive application of tax treaties and whether and to what extent the concept of abuse is a domestic one and/or one of treaty law. To the extent that the concept of abuse is a purely domestic one, the question arises how domestic anti-avoidance rules affect double taxation conventions and to what extent one contracting state, for the purpose of taxation, should be prepared to consider the other contracting state's notion of abuse.  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