Readers, for the last year or so I’ve set the blog to show a summary of each post which you then click into as shown below. For the years before that I just showed the full text like you see now. I personally engage more with full text displays because I read as I scroll,
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So I lived for almost two years in the Netherlands and Belgium and learned the Dutch language, which is full of delights. Today’s delight is billenkoek. Now koek means cake. A koekje (small cake) is a cookie. Boterkoek is butter cake, this delicious sweet, to-die-for Dutch version of shortbread. So what does billen mean? Back
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“More than 50% of all traditionally-published book sales of any format in the US now happen on Amazon.com.” That’s just amazing. But I found something even more amazing this week. Author Earnings released a report this week of their analysis of a million titles on Amazon. Data Guy, the tech guy behind the software gathering the
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Last year I posted about a service I’m working on to get ratings on books for sex, violence, and language. I posted similar thought about YA books in “Since When Did Young Adult Become The Cure For Cancer?“. I’m back. I did lots of customer discovery last August in an effort to see if book
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I just had a conversation with the devil. Well, from what people have been posting, he seemed like the devil. But I know how the internet can be. Mitt Romney at one time was the devil. Now, I think he’s been degraded in those quarters to janitor of the hot place. Yeah, that one Romney
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