Jenny Greenleaf has four books available — but driving around the country, holding book signings for each one isn’t an option. Instead, she’s holding a virtual book signing on Facebook.
How? Each book has its own custom bookplate designed and signed by Jennifer Greenleaf. All customers have to do is forward their receipt to Jennifer once [...]

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Y Combinator is a venture firm that specializes in early stage startups, usually less than $20,000. Its success stories include Reddit and Scribd. The venture firm focuses on tech opportunities for the most part, which makes Y Combinator’s new RFS all the more interesting. They’re looking ‘the Future of Journalism.’
It makes sense: there isn’t [...]

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Online publishing has made it a lot easier for writers to find audiences and paychecks — at least if they’re writing nonfiction. The demand for articles, copy and even blog posts has skyrocketed. But while plenty of people have published their fiction and poetry online, the market for such work has not grown as fast [...]

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