Paying an Author and Putting Her Down
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The National Post in Canada recently criticized Naomi Kleinâs âThe Shock Doctrine,â yet the paper bought excerpts from the book to accompany each critical essay.
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How to keep that paid-for ride going.
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Spam makes sense. Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They're cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.
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The book retailer looks a little pricey at the moment.
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As writers negotiate with producers for a bigger slice of online-distribution revenues, the possibility of actors and directors joining with disgruntled scribes for a megastrike rears its ugly head. It could simultaneously shutter the production of movies, TV and videogames.
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(Linda Stern is a freelance writer. Any opinions in the   column are solely those of Ms. Stern. You can e-mail her at   lindastern@aol.com.)
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Seth Godin published a book under a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to republish and sell it. But he was a little surprised when someone actually did.
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Ken Lerer who worked as an executive at Time-Warner before launching the Huffington Post explained to USA Today that the Huffington Post has no plans to begin paying their bloggers. In his words, paying contributor's is "Not our financial model."
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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(Linda Stern is a freelance writer. Any opinions in the  column are solely those of Ms. Stern. You can e-mail her at  lindastern@aol.com)
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  May 26--Stung by the backlash against increased royalties charged to  Internet broadcasters, the music industry this week offered to give small  online broadcasters a break.
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Yes Virginia, there is money to be made in web publishing, especially stock market and trading news! The news will invigorate bloggers and news publishers everywhere.
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Have you ever seen a $25,000 PC Card that hooks to a scanner to produce clean content used for forms? Some professional groups pay those kind of dollars so they can use EDI to speed up their collections. Call the filer a service provider and call the paper billing company a payer. So why does the payer make a provider kill trees to get paid? read more
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Auction site 'humiliated' and 'harassed' The row continues between eBay and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.â¦
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The artist's controversial deal to sell his latest album through a British newspaper infuriated the music industry, but it might be the right way to go.
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Blog: Writer is duped for the first time ever by a phishing attack; feels violated and ashamed.
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Don't worry about fair. Just pay as little as you can.