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Monthly Archive June, 2008

No Fluff Just Stuff

Mark June 22, 2008

I just spent this past weekend at the No Fluff Just Stuff conference, the Raleigh edition.  It was a very enlightening experience.  While it is a Java focused conference, it is still a great event to learn a lot, even if you aren’t a Java heavy developer, like myself.  I think I speak for a [...]

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Life Intervenes

Mark June 9, 2008

While this blog is certainly a part of my life, the rest of my life is going to cut into the time I devote to it.  Expect very light to no posting for approximately the next month.  This is due to a variety of reasons, but rest assured once things have settled down I’ll get [...]

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Publisher Advice

Mark June 3, 2008

I’d like to start out by apologizing for my last post.  My previous post was below my standards.  It was simply a quote with a small blurb that provided no worth while insight.  I did nothing more than add to the echo chamber of the Internet and that isn’t what I’m trying to do.  At [...]

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Publishers Don’t Get It

Mark June 2, 2008

Amazon sells most Kindle books for $9.99 or less. Publishers say that they generally sell electronic books to Amazon for the same price as physical books, or about 45 percent to 50 percent of the cover price. For a hardcover best seller like Scott McClellan’s “What Happened,” the former press secretary’s account of his years [...]

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