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Anthony S Policastro's Blog
October 11, 2009
- I would like to share this interview with Henry Hutton, a good friend of mine who is helping revolutionize the publishing industry with his self publishing agency, Publish and Sell Enterprises. Known in publishing circles as The PublishingGuy, Henry has also created an online newspaper called PublishingGuy's News Update offering the latest news in the dynamic publishing industry. 1. What made ...
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September 15, 2009
- My blog tour for both of my novels, Dark End of the Spectrum and Absence of Faith has started. Below is where I will be in the Blogsphere. Many thanks to all my fellow bloggers and authors who are supporting me in this tour. September 14, 2009 www.aliceosborn.blogspot.com Alice Osborn September 15, 2009 http://elisalorello.blogspot.com/ Elisa ...
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August 25, 2009
- I recently attended a friend of mine's book launch and signing at a local coffee house here in Raleigh, NC and I found it highly successful. Martin Brossman, the author of Brossman's Social Media and Online Resource Directory for Business definitely thinks outside of the box and the bookstore. Instead of having his book signing at a local bookstore, he choose the New World Coffee House, a ...
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July 28, 2009
- By Anthony S. Policastro My newest book, Dark End of the Spectrum has received several reviews and they have caused me to nearly fall off my chair when I heard them. When I finished writing the mystery/thriller, I thought it would appeal mainly to computer geeks, readers interested in technology, and people who knew their way around the Internet Not only does it appeal to these audiences, it ...
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June 18, 2009
- By Anthony S. PolicastroSimon & Schuster will now sell its most popular titles as eBooks on Scribd.com. Great news! A major publishing house is going digital.But they are doomed to failure.They think readers will pay 20% off the list price of a book's most recent printed version, according to an article in The New York Times on June. 11.So a printed Simon & Schuster title ...
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June 2, 2009
- The New York Times reported over the weekend that Google has announced that it will sell ebooks to consumers - competing directly with Amazon.The Times reported,"In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in NewYork over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by thatwould enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct ...
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May 17, 2009
- UPDATE: Stephen Wolfram launched Wolfram/Alpha this Saturday, May 16, 2009. Be sure to visit his site and try it. When I finished my thriller, DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM (DEOS), two years ago I never imagined that some of it would come true!With the reported release of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine this month (May 2009) by its creator Stephen Wolfram, a significant plot element of DEOS will ...
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April 25, 2009
- I was intrigued by Evan Schnittman's new blog Black Plastic Glasses and his post "Why ebooks must fail" because it contradicts what is happening all over the Internet - ebook sites are popping up like weeds.The miracle grow for ebooks is the launch of the second generation Kindle, the Stanza book reading application for the iPhone and ebooks being the preferred reading format of the ...
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March 20, 2009
- I wanted to introduce you to my new blog on web analytics and what every author should know and then some. The address is http://ghost-chasing.blogspot.comEvery so often, our labradoodle, Nickie, will confidently stare into a corner of a room with no windows and bark repeately for several minutes."What is the dog barking at?" my wife would ask."Ghosts. I think the dog is chasing ...
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February 25, 2009
- I thought I would share this interview about my novel, Absence of Faith from A Book Blogger's Diary.Anthony S. Policastro is the author of two novels, and a freelance writer with articles in The New York Times, American Photographer, and other national, regional and local publications. His first novel, Absence of Faith, involving a mystery that causes the highly religious residents of a ...
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February 16, 2009
- By Anthony S. PolicastroSometimes you just want to smack someone on the side of the head and say, “What sa madda wit you!”This is how I feel about the Authors Guild claim that Amazon’s new Kindle 2 text to voice feature is infringing on writer’s audio book rights. (See the Wired blog by David Kravets.)"Until this issue is worked out, Amazon may be undermining your audio market as ...
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February 11, 2009
- By Anthony S. PolicastroThe Jenkins Group, an independent publishing services company, says four out of five people they surveyed said they believe they have a book to write. Even fewer actually sit down and write a book and even fewer get published. Many established literary agencies in New York and elsewhere get upwards of 500-email and snail mail book queries a week and less than one percent ...
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December 27, 2008
- By Anthony S. PolicastroAt sixteen I knew I wanted to be a novelist. But when I sat down to start my book, the page remained blank. Writer's block at sixteen? Hardly. My pages remained blank for another dozen years or so, but my dream stayed with me. Then one day I was able to type "The End" on a page and I knew I accomplished the first step of my dream.Years later I realized that when ...
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November 6, 2008
- DARK END OF SPECTRUM will make you think twice before turning on your cell phone or PDA!DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM is a frighteningly plausible and headline ripping tale of the real threats that loom in cyberspace and beyond with a Michael Crichton realism. Based on the author's years of research into the hacker culture.DARK END OF THE SPECTRUM is a thriller that will connect with everyone with a ...
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October 29, 2008
- By Anthony S. Policastro My wife called me at work yesterday and was excited to tell me that Oprah was going berzerk praising the Kindle as her favorite new gadget. "She is just going nuts over it," my wife said. "She has Jeff Bezos on the show, too."CNET and Information Week ran stories on Oprah's endorsement within hours of the airing.We both knew what that meant. Will the ...
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