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Margie Goldsmith, ASJA
 Six years ago, it was easy to pitch an editor, land an assignment (if you nailed the perfect idea), file the piece, and receive both a thank you and prompt payment. No longer. The good 'ole days are over and we writers are living in a time of uncertainty. The number of magazines folding and editors being let go are on the increase. As a result, many editors, worried about their future, are venting their frustration on the only people they can — not their bosses, but on us.
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What's the point of writing a book or having a website if potential readers can't find it in a Google search? ASJA member Miral Sattar — CEO of Bibliocrunch, an award-winning marketplace that connects authors with vetted book publishing professionals — will share her expertise during this month’s ShopTalk. Join us to learn how you can make the most of your Google Author Rank.
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Writer Beware
Penguin Random House has sold its Author Solutions division to an affiliate of the Najafi Companies, a private investment firm that at one point owned Bookspan and made an offer to buy several hundred Borders outlets after the chain filed for Chapter 11.
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GalleyCat
The Authors Guild is calling on publishers to offer authors more favorable terms in order to combat decreasing incomes. The organization published an open letter to The Association of American Publishers on its site. In the letter, the group urged publishers to offer better deals pointing out that author salaries have dropped an average of more than 30 percent since 2009.
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Writer's Digest
Every press kit requires eight main parts: Contact Information and Bio, Product Information, Promotional Information, Interview Resources, Media Reactions, Press Release, Book Excerpt, and Title Page.
Let's start from the top.
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Quartz
Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the world, is chopping off its self-publishing arm. The company said Tuesday (Jan. 5) that it has sold Author Solutions — the self-publishing author-tools platform that it bought in 2012 — to an unnamed affiliate of U.S. private equity firm Najafi Companies for an undisclosed sum.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Netlfix's explosive documentary series Making a Murderer pits police and prosecutors, who seem hell-bent on convicting a man of murder, against a pair of valiant defense attorneys. The 10-part series follows the 2007 murder trial of Steven Avery in Wisconsin. He had recently been exonerated after serving 18 years in prison for a rape that DNA evidence later attributed to another man. Amid the legal battle, viewers also get a glimpse of a rather offputting supporting character: the press.
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The Bookseller
Advocates of print books carp at ebooks. Self-published and traditionally published authors snipe at each other. The trade authors accuse the self-published authors of putting out tripe and crap; the self-publishing authors accuse trade authors of snobbery.
And everyone hates digital.
Okay, not everyone.
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THE Writer
Last year was a big one in the writing world, including newly-discovered titles from beloved authors and the appointment of the first Latino U.S. Poet Laureate. But a new year is upon us, which means anticipated new books in 2016 by many authors we’ve followed over the years. We dipped into our archives for insights about writing from five authors featured on the list. What will you write this year?
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