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		<title>Don’t Abuse Scene Breaks</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week, my daughter Lisa Shiel (an author, editor, and book designer) posted the following Twitter update:
Yes, you can have too many scene breaks in a novel. More is not better. Creating a dizzying pace of scene changes can cause motion sickness!
She was in the midst of converting a client&#8217;s book file to a Kindle [...]<br/>
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		<title>Mulling Over Ebooks and Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Two interesting studies and one new iPhone/iPod Touch app surfaced this week. Herewith my musings about them.
Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading (BISG)
The Book Industry Study Group released the first of what they promise will be three major studies for 2010. There were 556  survey participants (all of whom indicated they had purchased an ebook or [...]<br/>
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		<title>Publishing Forecasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading all the hyped-up forecasts from industry experts about where the publishing industry and books in general will be one, ten, or twenty years from now.
I tend to take them all with a large dose of salt. In my almost-63 years, I can&#8217;t even begin to count all the forecasts I&#8217;ve read, heard, [...]<br/>
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		<title>Do Christmas Kindle Book Sales Hint at Sea Change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So, the other day Amazon put out a press release that made a big fuss over the fact that the sales of Kindle books exceeded sales for print books&#8230;on Christmas day itself. On just that one day.
The publishing Twitterverse and blogarama has been buzzing as though Amazon had announced it would no longer even sell [...]<br/>
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		<title>Digital-Only Books Are Cultural Suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I suppose many people would read that headline and consider it heresy. Others probably don&#8217;t see a connection between e-books and the survival of a culture.
So, bear with me a bit. This is something that&#8217;s been bugging me for years now.
First, don&#8217;t accuse me of being a Luddite. I have a degree in electrical engineering [...]<br/>
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