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I do keep a significant amount of work stuff electronic, either through clipping with Evernote or just downloading the PDFs. I'd rather not print out stuff for a one-time read if I can help it.

I think of the physical vs. electronic book as a both-and proposition.

I have both DVDs and a Netflix subscription.

I have both CDs and a Google Music subscription.

I have both physical books and ebooks.

I consider the electronic to be ephemeral, temporary, on-demand entertainment. I consider the physical media to be

Agreed. I have two full shelves of non-fiction that I use for reference material. I can flip around in the books as needed (especially non-fiction that uses endnotes). My fiction covers half a shelf (and lots of space on my kindle app) and it's mostly for books that I've had for decades and reread every few years.

Smell connects to long-term memory and has a strong emotive aspect as well. The smell of a book helps to encode the information more richly by triggering emotive neurons, long-term memory, and whatever the text is firing up in your noggin. The more diverse the neural pathways for each piece of information, the more

I've used this system quite a bit. Since I'm self-employed and my income fluctuates, having the baseline for what I need to make tells me if I'll get to eat for a certain month and also allows me to allocate extra when it comes in.

A static budget is okay for a fixed income, but a flexible budget more accurately

It's big of you to admit that you are unwilling or unable to change your opinion based on facts.

I do my best to make decisions based on the available information (which I've provided to you, should you decide to look at it). I would be happy to see any source that supports your suppositions (seriously, just give me

That's why I used slides of what I had done and let the audience participate in real time. I didn't write while giving the presentation, just showed the slides of what I had done.

Why are you working so hard to not be convinced?

Notice what I said (and it's born out by the facts cited), not that self-published authors do not fail, but that among self-published authors and trade published authors there are more self-published authors earning a livable wage.

The Guardian recently reported that trade publishing is not a viable model for authors

The data shows that DRM (digital rights management) is bad for ebook sales.

To paraphrase Gabe Newell, piracy is a service issue. Make your book easy for people to read and they'll read it. Slap DRM on there and make your book a headache and they won't.

Source (toward the bottom): http://authorearnings.com/july-2014-au

This is a good idea, but needs refined, careful application.

What makes the point stick is that you thought through the idea completely enough to not only repeat it, but to rethink it for your audience.

I gave a presentation on neuroplasticity a while back and had everyone in the audience write their name and draw a

I did not know there was a distinction between the terms trade publishing and traditional publishing, nor did I intend any disparagement in my use of the latter. Thank you for pointing that out.

Per your second point — publishers in the past sent authors on book tours, set up bookstore signings and interviews, and

There are advantages to traditional publishing, to be sure.

The main disadvantages to the trad-pub model are based on the scale. A traditionally published book needs to sell about 10,000 copies to break even after paying the editors, designers, printers, distributors, and the author. That means that only books that

Writer.ly has some good editors, both in house and with listings. You can browse the ratings to find one that works for you.

If you decide to go with Craigslist or oDesk for an editor ask for a certain amount of editing as a tryout. Somewhere between 500 and 1500 words (I know that's a lot, but it depends on the type

There are tons of pre-made covers available if you can't afford to drop $500 for cover design. Most will run in the $30-50 range for an ebook cover (more for a print cover) where they will put your title on their art (and no one else can use it once you buy it).

If you go through CreateSpace first, you can then export

I would also add that you should check the amount of the book that will be read for the class and try to decide if it will be a good resource in the future.

I had some "required" books in which the prof only asked us to read 50-100 pages. I just checked it out from the library instead of buying it. I love how my book

Probably my biggest regret/doubt about my decision to not have kids is that I don't have the opportunity to intimately shape future people. I assuage that by mentoring people, investing deeply in my niblings and god-children, and working to create better systems for the future generations to use.