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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<title>By: DrWoody007</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#039;m two months behind with my comment, it will be interesting to see if anyone is still out there....&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Interesting post as all companies (including the one I work for) try to compete, instead of create, in the market spaces available.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;But I see no one answered your underlying question of &quot;How?&quot; So, here&#039;s my attempt:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Site Licenses.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Pattern selling ebooks, etc., the same way software companies sell software to conglomerates.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Customers: &lt;br/&gt;Libraries, Public Schools (teachers and Libraries), Daycare Associations, Hospitals (?) [hmm...waiting rooms are always filled with bored people...], and so forth.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Marketing:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&quot;Do your customers sit and wait? Do they fidget? Do young children scamper around, creating a ruckus? If so, then set up a bank of computer monitors and mouses and let your customer read an ebook of their choice. We provide a wide section from Children&#039;s literature to Romance to Fantasy. And if the service you provided is completed before the customer finishes the ebook, and they want to know where to get a copy, then send them our way. We will pay you x% for every customer you send us.&quot;   &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;...or something like that.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;different subject now - Platform&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;How does one like me develop a platform with so many aspiring authors?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;But, I am attempting to build one in a non-comformitory way.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I composed and posted four Nursery Rhyme Twists on my blog (shameless self-promotion and they&#039;re free!). The objective of the reading game (new ebook market?) is to figure out the original Nursery Rhyme before the end of the story.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A fifth grade teacher liked them and is going to read them to her class as a mini test-market for me.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Thanks again for posting your wishes and reading my response.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that I&#8217;m two months behind with my comment, it will be interesting to see if anyone is still out there&#8230;.</p>
<p>Interesting post as all companies (including the one I work for) try to compete, instead of create, in the market spaces available.</p>
<p>But I see no one answered your underlying question of &#8220;How?&#8221; So, here&#8217;s my attempt:</p>
<p>Site Licenses.</p>
<p>Pattern selling ebooks, etc., the same way software companies sell software to conglomerates.</p>
<p>Customers: <br />Libraries, Public Schools (teachers and Libraries), Daycare Associations, Hospitals (?) [hmm&#8230;waiting rooms are always filled with bored people&#8230;], and so forth.</p>
<p>Marketing:</p>
<p>&#8220;Do your customers sit and wait? Do they fidget? Do young children scamper around, creating a ruckus? If so, then set up a bank of computer monitors and mouses and let your customer read an ebook of their choice. We provide a wide section from Children&#8217;s literature to Romance to Fantasy. And if the service you provided is completed before the customer finishes the ebook, and they want to know where to get a copy, then send them our way. We will pay you x% for every customer you send us.&#8221;   </p>
<p>&#8230;or something like that.</p>
<p>different subject now &#8211; Platform</p>
<p>How does one like me develop a platform with so many aspiring authors?</p>
<p>But, I am attempting to build one in a non-comformitory way.</p>
<p>I composed and posted four Nursery Rhyme Twists on my blog (shameless self-promotion and they&#8217;re free!). The objective of the reading game (new ebook market?) is to figure out the original Nursery Rhyme before the end of the story.</p>
<p>A fifth grade teacher liked them and is going to read them to her class as a mini test-market for me.</p>
<p>Thanks again for posting your wishes and reading my response.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Michael, I like your angle on this, your willingness to face the future and see what good we can create!  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Even the article you reference (despite the doomsday pomposity of it&#039;s title: &quot;The End&quot;) talked about &quot;the book business as we know it.&quot; Which I thought was really interesting.  Because yeah, the book business is changing, but we&#039;re still going to be writing and selling STORIES.  STORIES are what&#039;s in our blood, our DNA, our collective unconsciousness.  We humans will always want to hear / read / see / be told a great story.  I imagine it&#039;s (okay, go with me on this) kind of like lamenting the end of writing with quill and ink.  Oh, how horrible those new-fangled typewriters were - no dirty fingers anymore.  No feel of parchment under your fingers.  So mechanical.  So... much faster.  And easier.  And hey, a good story remained a good story no matter how you got it on the page!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And with Audio books, kindle downloads, and actual paper books, don&#039;t we already have three different ways to get the same story told to us today?  And look!  The sky hasn&#039;t fallen.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Michael, I like your angle on this, your willingness to face the future and see what good we can create!  </p>
<p>Even the article you reference (despite the doomsday pomposity of it&#8217;s title: &#8220;The End&#8221;) talked about &#8220;the book business as we know it.&#8221; Which I thought was really interesting.  Because yeah, the book business is changing, but we&#8217;re still going to be writing and selling STORIES.  STORIES are what&#8217;s in our blood, our DNA, our collective unconsciousness.  We humans will always want to hear / read / see / be told a great story.  I imagine it&#8217;s (okay, go with me on this) kind of like lamenting the end of writing with quill and ink.  Oh, how horrible those new-fangled typewriters were &#8211; no dirty fingers anymore.  No feel of parchment under your fingers.  So mechanical.  So&#8230; much faster.  And easier.  And hey, a good story remained a good story no matter how you got it on the page!</p>
<p>And with Audio books, kindle downloads, and actual paper books, don&#8217;t we already have three different ways to get the same story told to us today?  And look!  The sky hasn&#8217;t fallen.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently an insurance company nearly wind up....&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A bank is nearly bankrupt......&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Who fault?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The top management of the Public listed company ( belong to &quot;public&quot; ) salary should be tied a portion of it to the shares price ( IPO or ave 5 years ).... so when the shares price drop, it don&#039;t just penalise the investors, but those who don&#039;t take care of the company.....If this rule is pass on, without any need of further regulation, all industries ( as long as it is public listed ) will be self regulated......&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sign a petition to your favourite president candidate, congress member again and ask for their views to comment on this, and what regulations they are going to raise for implementation.....If you agree on my point, please share with many people as possible....&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;http://remindmyselfinstock.blogspot.com/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently an insurance company nearly wind up&#8230;.</p>
<p>A bank is nearly bankrupt&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>Who fault?</p>
<p>The top management of the Public listed company ( belong to &#8220;public&#8221; ) salary should be tied a portion of it to the shares price ( IPO or ave 5 years )&#8230;. so when the shares price drop, it don&#8217;t just penalise the investors, but those who don&#8217;t take care of the company&#8230;..If this rule is pass on, without any need of further regulation, all industries ( as long as it is public listed ) will be self regulated&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>Sign a petition to your favourite president candidate, congress member again and ask for their views to comment on this, and what regulations they are going to raise for implementation&#8230;..If you agree on my point, please share with many people as possible&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Dystel &#38; Goderich Literary Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks, all!  Everyone can&#039;t agree with me, can they?  I was hoping someone would tell me the sky actually IS falling.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, all!  Everyone can&#8217;t agree with me, can they?  I was hoping someone would tell me the sky actually IS falling.</p>
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		<title>By: Dystel &#38; Goderich Literary Management</title>
		<link>http://www.dystel.com/blog/2008/09/michael-bourret-talks-doom-and-gloom/comment-page-1/#comment-20002</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dystel &#38; Goderich Literary Management]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks, all!  Everyone can&#039;t agree with me, can they?  I was hoping someone would tell me the sky actually IS falling.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, all!  Everyone can&#8217;t agree with me, can they?  I was hoping someone would tell me the sky actually IS falling.</p>
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		<title>By: Dystel &#38; Goderich Literary Management</title>
		<link>http://www.dystel.com/blog/2008/09/michael-bourret-talks-doom-and-gloom/comment-page-1/#comment-14269</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dystel &#38; Goderich Literary Management]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks, all!  Everyone can&#039;t agree with me, can they?  I was hoping someone would tell me the sky actually IS falling.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, all!  Everyone can&#8217;t agree with me, can they?  I was hoping someone would tell me the sky actually IS falling.</p>
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		<title>By: Sara Wilson Etienne</title>
		<link>http://www.dystel.com/blog/2008/09/michael-bourret-talks-doom-and-gloom/comment-page-1/#comment-14268</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Wilson Etienne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I also refuse to be depressed.  On the contrary, some of the possibilities out there are exciting.  Creating stories across different formats has the potential to make characters live and breathe and inhabit our world in a way they never have before.  And that seems like a storytellers dream come true.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also refuse to be depressed.  On the contrary, some of the possibilities out there are exciting.  Creating stories across different formats has the potential to make characters live and breathe and inhabit our world in a way they never have before.  And that seems like a storytellers dream come true.</p>
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		<title>By: Ghost Girl</title>
		<link>http://www.dystel.com/blog/2008/09/michael-bourret-talks-doom-and-gloom/comment-page-1/#comment-14267</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghost Girl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amen...I&#039;m with you!  It is hard to see change as an opportunity sometimes, but that is how things move forward, evolve, and often surpass the successes of the past.  Here&#039;s to positive thinking and creative solutions!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amen&#8230;I&#8217;m with you!  It is hard to see change as an opportunity sometimes, but that is how things move forward, evolve, and often surpass the successes of the past.  Here&#8217;s to positive thinking and creative solutions!</p>
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		<title>By: kate</title>
		<link>http://www.dystel.com/blog/2008/09/michael-bourret-talks-doom-and-gloom/comment-page-1/#comment-14266</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kate]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i so agree with you. as a patron, i love the changes in music, how i can hear a song while watching a dvd, run to my computer, download it, plug it into my rotating Very Big Mix, and weave it into my living. i love the immediacy of blogs, how a writer pulls you into the NOW of their lives. i love that i can read a book, then jump on the net to find the author&#039;s website, plug their blog into my google reader, and be taken on cool tangent adventures. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;the only way this could Not Awesome is if we resist change, like you mentioned with the music industry. but change is coming, it&#039;s happening, because it must, because it&#039;s time. we don&#039;t have the resources to keep using trees as book fodder. and the hierarchical setup that currently exists in publishing keeps the author and the reader too far apart from one another, both in space and time.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;it&#039;s all so exciting! kendles and ripped music and jason mraz&#039;s blog and diablo cody&#039;s twitter stream and  oh good lord, it&#039;s awesome! how could it not be? only if we hold on to the past. only if we don&#039;t evolve. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;of course there&#039;ll be fighting and whining and grieving and grasping . . . but we will change. . . because people, and the environment and the economy and Life will make sure we will . . . &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;evolution in motion . . . all up in our grills :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i so agree with you. as a patron, i love the changes in music, how i can hear a song while watching a dvd, run to my computer, download it, plug it into my rotating Very Big Mix, and weave it into my living. i love the immediacy of blogs, how a writer pulls you into the NOW of their lives. i love that i can read a book, then jump on the net to find the author&#8217;s website, plug their blog into my google reader, and be taken on cool tangent adventures. </p>
<p>the only way this could Not Awesome is if we resist change, like you mentioned with the music industry. but change is coming, it&#8217;s happening, because it must, because it&#8217;s time. we don&#8217;t have the resources to keep using trees as book fodder. and the hierarchical setup that currently exists in publishing keeps the author and the reader too far apart from one another, both in space and time.</p>
<p>it&#8217;s all so exciting! kendles and ripped music and jason mraz&#8217;s blog and diablo cody&#8217;s twitter stream and  oh good lord, it&#8217;s awesome! how could it not be? only if we hold on to the past. only if we don&#8217;t evolve. </p>
<p>of course there&#8217;ll be fighting and whining and grieving and grasping . . . but we will change. . . because people, and the environment and the economy and Life will make sure we will . . . </p>
<p>evolution in motion . . . all up in our grills <img src="http://www.dystel.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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