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		<title>The Importance Of Google+ For Authors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emilyn Chand from Novel Publicity was recently interview on Blog Talk Radio about the importance of social networking, and Google+ in particular, for authors. It&#8217;s a very interesting listen, with lots of good advice, and I personally echo Chand&#8217;s praise of Google+, some of the features of which I outlined here. Check out the show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/09/the-importance-of-google-for-authors/</link>
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		<title>Bookstore Chain Borders Closes For Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Borders, the second largest bookstore chain in the US, was forced to close this week after failing to secure a buyer. The company, which went bankrupt earlier this year, will now close all of its remaining 399 stores, with the loss of some 10,700 jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal. This is sad news [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/07/bookstore-chain-borders-closes-for-good/</link>
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		<title>Is Interactive Writing Protected By Copyright?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While digging through my emails I came across a comment sent to me by a law firm about the Pottermore launch. It raises some good points. “An interesting question [...] is whether there is any protection available for the interactive elements of a website like Pottermore,” said Shireen Peermohamed, an intellectual property specialist at London [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/07/is-interactive-writing-protected-by-copyright/</link>
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		<title>Google+ Versus Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday Google launched its social network Google+, it&#8217;s long-awaited answer to Facebook. Currently invites to it are quite limited as it&#8217;s a Field Trial (or beta), but it looks like it could be a pretty solid contender to the amazing success of Facebook. Below I&#8217;ll showcase some of the differences between the two. Privacy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/07/google-versus-facebook/</link>
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		<title>J. K. Rowling To Launch Harry Potter Ebooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now you&#8217;ve probably heard the rumours of the elusive Pottermore project, which some people thought was going to be a Harry Potter MMO, but it turned out to be an online reading experience and the location from which Rowling will sell DRM-free ebooks, a complete turnaround from her original views about her beloved boy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/06/j-k-rowling-to-launch-harry-potter-ebooks/</link>
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		<title>Google Teams Up With British Library To Digitise 250,000 Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has teamed up with the British Library to bring quarter of a million dusty tomes to the internet. That&#8217;s upwards of 40 million pages, with a potential cost of £40 million. Check out the full story at The Inquirer. The British Library previously inked a deal to digitise 40 million newspaper pages with Brightsolid, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/06/google-teams-up-with-british-library-to-digitise-250000-books/</link>
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		<title>Writer Website Targeted By Hackers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday hacker group Lulzsec released 62,000 email addresses and passwords to the public, putting not only email accounts, but Facebook, Twitter and other accounts that people regularly use at risk. In most cases it was user stupidity in using the same password for multiple sites, meaning that one compromise resulted in them all being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/06/writer-website-targeted-by-hackers/</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would probably be preaching to the choir if I was to rattle on about how important reading is in general, but after reading a number of disturbing posts by would-be authors over the years I feel compelled to highlight how vital reading is for a writer. A writer&#8217;s tools are his or her words. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/06/the-importance-of-reading/</link>
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		<title>Book Trailers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book trailers are an increasingly popular way of advertising a book, especially with the success of YouTube. In many ways they can act as visual blurbs, pulling in readers in a way that only moving images and sound can really do. On the other hand, they can also prove disastrous if done wrong. A bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://deanfwilson.com/2011/06/book-trailers/</link>
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		<title>Manuscript Formatting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writers like to write. It&#8217;s hard to question that. But some writers really hate to format their manuscript. This is why the self-publication market is rife with badly formatted books, which makes them unreadable (and therefore unbuyable). The same applies for a number of small publishing houses which don&#8217;t invest enough in the proper presentation [...]]]></description>
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