For tenure-track professors, there is some pressure to publish books and articles, but deadlines are few.
Its Encore program has begun to publish books by self-published authors whose work attracts good reviews on Amazon.com.
Additionally, I can invest in co-working spaces where entrepreneurs collaborate, launch an incubator to nurture new ideas, teach classes as an adjunct professor, publish books, form a peer-to-peer educational network, or found a tech company that enables the developmental process with software.
Mr. Howey continued to write and self-publish new books, including a zombie novel and prequels to "Wool" that explore how and why the silos were built.
But a systematic analysis based on what we teach in our own classrooms and publish in our books and journals has, it seems, not even be considered.
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The company's plan to reinvigorate same-store sales by pushing harder into self-publishing--a recent trend that allows customers to come in and publish their own books on-site for sale in the local store--seems speculative at best.
He looked around and discovered a burgeoning industry of companies that help authors publish their own books in any format they like, from the traditional printed book to e-books and Amazon's Kindle, and now for the iPad.
Publishers essentially faced no competition and enjoyed complete control of what books people could publish and sell.
And they put fewer and fewer resources into the books they do publish.
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If the Justice Department prevails with its antitrust lawsuit, the decision might have unintended negative consequences for those who write, publish, sell and enjoy e-books.
Of course, there are the stories of the writers who self-publish and magic happens and they sell millions of books, but those are the rare exceptions.
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The offshoot, Mischief, will launch with 13 original e-books on 27 March, with plans to publish four every month.
Gianopoulos, a former editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, believes a company that can publish the way teens are reading could revolutionize the YA books market.
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Among his come-ons: giving hires a chance to publish their software development ideas as well-distributed trade books--and paying them a fat bonus for their labors up front.
The 200-year-old Wiley doesn't publish War and Peace, but it has a firm position in consumer books (CliffsNotes, the For Dummies series and Frommer's guidebooks) and textbooks.
Yet as tens of thousands of authors self-publish their work, publishers' control continues to weaken over how titles are distributed and which books are offered for sale.
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In general, publishers of books, newspapers and magazines are legally liable for the content of the materials they publish, while book stores, newsstands and other distributors of publications are immune from liability for such content.
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