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  • ..., barely a day goes by when I don't wonder how you keep all your balls in the air. Your clients, your courses, your articles and blog posts. Your shipping of books and teaching of conf...
  • ...ounds are being lost. The dawn chorus of birds is one of those treasures, oh to be able to awaken to that! You're talking about the Tar Sands and shipping of the shale oil from that, r...
  • ...ential customer base of millions vs a few customers spread over years.   And I still can't see how they can possibly say that the elimination of shipping costs doesn't put more in the...
  • Brooke Warner commented on her article What Are E-Books Worth?
    ...arity pricing. Very helpful. But the deal is this. On print books the additional costs associated are printing and storage. The consumer pays for shipping. For most print-run books, th...
  • ...oss of all of those after-market options, I think as a consumer I deserve a cheaper price on ebooks, never mind the reduced costs in printing and shipping that the publisher enjoys. Th...
  • ...ill need reminders such as yours.  It's a process.I just ordered Where Have I Been All My Life?, resisting the impulse to pay extra for overnight shipping, and am really looking forwar...
  • ...tively fought anti-Semitism. Also, France continues to deny their active participation in the Rwandan genocide, including the fact that they were shipping weapons long after it was ack...
  • ...dn't act on this because at least one specific company required an order much larger than we wanted to risk, and there was also the matter of the shipping expenses.   Maybe repeating...
  • ...used CreateSpace with satisfaction, print quality as good as I got from half a dozen other short-run printers, and cutting out the inventory and shipping is a blessed relief, from my...
  • Amazon actually takes 55% off print prices. I have to increase my normal print price because of the cost of shipping, just to break even. I don't like it, but as Brooke said - authors can't ignore Amazon.