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In general, on-demand print quality is variable because there are 10,000s of small batch print runs. Even when print quality is high 99% of the time, it still means shipping some badly printed books. Anecdotally, my sense is that quality is highly dependent on the specific region where your book is printed, so you might never get a badly printed copy, but many of your readers in another region might frequently receive low quality print. This has been the largest “hidden tax” of self-publishing for me.
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Irrational Exuberance
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Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users
Internet Crime Complaint Center
The old idea from Iris Murdoch endures: the most important revelation that stories offer is that *other people exist*. Stories in fiction and stories unfolding right before our eyes. Other people exist! A miraculous banality, half comedy and half tragedy, and a truth that takes rituals and habits to take seriously. We calibrate our inflated sense of self by learning from others’ gifts and from their suffering, and perhaps we learn the most when those two are almost irreducibly mixed.
Object Lessons
Sara Hendren
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