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Nick Russell on October 15th, 2011

Since I talked about freedom of speech in yesterday’s Bad Nick Blog, I decided I’d go ahead and post some thoughts on freedom of the press as well, because a lifetime in the small town newspaper business taught me that it is probably one of our least understood rights. For our purposes, the press is [...]

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Nick Russell on August 4th, 2011

This week I received my first electronic payment from Amazon for my Kindle e-book efforts, covering sales made during the last 10 days in May. It was only $107.53, but that’s money I didn’t have before. I now have five e-books available on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, as well as a sixth book, The Step-by-Step Guide [...]

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Nick Russell on May 7th, 2011

For years, the big traditional publishing companies had a lock on the industry. If a writer wanted to get published, he had to play the game – first you get an agent (almost impossible), then your agent gets your book read by somebody at a publishing house (again, almost impossible), then your book gets picked [...]

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Nick Russell on April 30th, 2011

I currently have four self-published books in print, along with seven niche guides, a couple of informational CDs, and several more in the works. But you would be hard pressed to find any of them in a traditional bookstore. You can go to your favorite bookstore or Amazon and they can order them through the [...]

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