Episode 120 – RWA, Backups, and Chicken Little

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Question of the Week: Have you become embroiled in following too much self-publishing gossip? What should you be doing with your time instead?

Subquestion: What do you hate most in this world? (Remember to tell Bryan and Claire at http://www.somethingniceshow.com )
Bryan promoted his new show (Something Nice to Say http://www.somethingniceshow.com ) and talked about his successful nonfiction launch before he and Jim talked backups, Amazon TOS, and torrents in the tips section. They thanked their latest patron Brecht Ryckaert (and his book WordPress Security 101 http://bit.ly/brechtword ) before moving onto the news. Stories included Amazon’s lame Kindle Q&A, a new proposed copyright law, why the sky isn’t falling, diversity in publishing, and Data Guy’s presentation at RWA. This week’s Question of the Week: Have you become embroiled in following too much self-publishing gossip? What should you be doing with your time instead? Subquestion: What do you hate most in this world? (Remember to share what you hate with Bryan and Claire at http://www.somethingniceshow.com )
What You’ll Learn:
  • What else Bryan does with his (minuscule) spare time
  • How to back-up online archives and why everyone should
  • How to avoid breaking the Amazon Terms of Service with reviews
  • How to keep your book from being torrented
  • Why Amazon opened a Q&A with users and what we learned
  • Why authors may not need lawyers to dispute copyright claims
  • Why you shouldn’t freak out about the negative publishing news
  • How publishers and retailers marginalize multicultural authors
  • Why the Romance market share is grossly underrepresented
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Question of the Week: Have you become embroiled in following too much self-publishing gossip? What should you be doing with your time instead?
Subquestion: What do you hate most in this world? (Remember to tell Bryan and Claire at http://www.somethingniceshow.com )

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