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Didja hear, didja hear? The O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference is coming up, February 9 through 11, 2009. It’s going to be awesome. Some of your favorite folks are going to be there. The Booksquare team is going to be there. And you can be there, too. Yes, there’s a tiny catch. Booksquare has wrangled one free pass to the conference, and we’re giving it away to someone special, someone willing to take a few moments to answer a few questions about our upcoming Booksquare University project. We’re putting together a social media training program, and while we like to

Square Pegs

Out With The Old, In With The…Cranky

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I kind of wanted to stay out of the way of the ScrollMotion Iceberg iTunes application. While I have issues with the execution — can’t the publishing industry use something akin to, oh, collective clout to create a real iTunes store for books instead of foisting endless application after application (and associated management of said applications) upon us? — I applaud the fact that people out there are thinking of ways to bring books and people together. On the the other hand, I also feel like Iceberg is a clear example of the utter contempt some people in the publishing

Non-Traditional Publishing

On Agents

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In a “hey, the sky isn’t falling, so let’s get on with the business of books” post, the always fashionable and always brilliant Janet Reid slips in a bit of agenty credo before telling the publishing business to man up: My job isn’t to sell work to hardcover publishers. My job is to represent authors for the sale of their work. Format changes, production changes won’t put me out of a job. Someone needs to be there to make sure the contracts don’t give the licensee the rights to your kidney, your kid or your next five novels. Someone needs

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