It means being able to create a community of passionate readers who can help spread the word about your books amongst their friends.
By reaching out to patients directly through his books and word-of -mouth referrals, both of which involve circumventing the medical establishment, he has been able to succeed largely without referrals from his financially-conflicted peers.
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Except for a small sampling of mainstream titles, most spoken-word content such as audio books or audio articles comes from unknown authors with the names of body parts or bodily functions prominently featured in the titles.
Clearly, public libraries have more work to do with spreading the word that they have e-books to lend.
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Bennett was presented with the Listening Books Award for spoken word at the Hay Festival on Saturday night by James Naughtie.
Her preferred solution was to put a note of explanation in books which use the word neger, explaining how offensive it is today.
World Book Day UK has been gradually growing each year to include more projects, such as Spread The Word, Quick Reads Initiative and Books for Hospitals.
The latest BMW Approved Apps include Audible (downloadable audio books and other spoken-word content), Glympse (location sharing), Rhapsody (subscription music service) and TuneIn (Internet radio).
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You might expect this to be a revolutionary new collaborative effort at delivering the written word in a way that makes Google Books pale into insignificance, but you would, of course, be wrong.
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Authors, especially first-time and independent ones, count on word of mouth and reader reviews to sell books.
Dante ends all three books of his Comedy with the word stelle stars.
Used to be (remember those days?) that the high quality of some self-published books (and even proposals pre-word-processing) was a great way to quickly determine the commitment of the author and often even was a harbinger of the quality of the prose itself.
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This globe within a globe, as it were one full of artefacts, the other of books glances at the play between word and object that underlies the exhibition.
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Because unlike the interpretations of other holy books, Muslims believe that the Koran is the word of God and can never be changed.
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Among the questions raised by critics: Since older books are harder to scan, how much of the word "death" is simply the disappearance of words garbled by the Google process itself?
With the overwhelming presence of the Windows platforms taking off, O'Reilly has added new titles such as The Whole Internet for Windows 95, Inside The Windows Registry and just recently a series of "Windows Annoyances" (ie Windows Annoyances, Office Annoyances, Word Annoyances) plus a complement to its UNIX series of NT books focusing on security and administration.
All she knows is that a few years ago word got around that there was money to be made pretending to read books that were in danger of falling off the bestseller lists.
It involved countless volunteers, who scoured periodicals and books from the present day back to centuries past in order to track down every word.
"She's committed to becoming an advocate for the written word and poetry in particular, " says Gretchen Young, who edited all of Kennedy's poetry books at Hyperion, working with the author to cull down huge numbers of beloved poems.
Look at the length of the books, the Harry Potter stories so far, it's immense, children are following every word of it with great avidity because it's a story, anybody will follow a story.
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On return visits he started collecting old cigar molds (he now owns 200) and old books, pamphlets and dissertations, going door to door in Havana to buy them up--until word spread of the crazy gringo and prices shot up.
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