Web-based Entrepreneurs in the Arab World
By Chip Rossetti Today’s Gulf News — the English-language daily based in Dubai — has an interesting piece on entrepreneurs in Lebanon who are using ...
View ArticleGermany’s Galiani Verlag to Publish Ai Weiwei’s Blog as Book
By Siobhan O’Leary BERLIN: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had plans to temporarily relocate to Berlin when he was detained by police at Beijing airport on April ...
View ArticleFrom Book to…Blog? Inspiration for the Aspiring Nonfiction Author
David Krall wanted to write a book about the Brooklyn Dodgers, but had no platform. Defying conventional publishing wisdom, he wrote it anyway. Here's how.
View ArticleWhat Comes First, the Platform or the Book?
Conventional wisdom says that first you build a platform and then you write a book. But what if you want to do it the other way around? Is one way best?
View Article#24H: Experimental Publishing Tackles Spanish Occupy Movement
Madrid-based author Bernardo Gutiérrez's new novel based on the 24 hours preceding the Spanish Occupy demonstrations can be freely edited by readers.
View ArticleMan Writing as Zulu Girl Becomes Chic Lit Hit in South Africa
The popular South African blog, Diary of a Zulu Girl, has struck a chord among readers, eliciting book and TV offers, even after it was revealed the author was a 30-year-old man.
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