This wasn’t a recent milestone. On one of the 25 operating Ford assembly lines, sometime during the day, the one millionth Ford Model T rolled out of the factory and into the light in 1915.
This seems to be the season of really awkward reports on self-publishing. In yet another “remarkable study into self-publishing,” that distracts with colors and pictures, self-publishing gets another black eye from someone who doesn’t really know the topic.
Well, as someone who helps writers become self-published authors, I have a slightly different viewpoint.
When I first saw the three parts of the “debate” I quickly came to the conclusion that the author didn’t know her subject very well. It certainly didn’t help that the very first two sentences included “road to nowhere” and “in my research.”
Patricia Santos Marcantonio made a post over at The Other Bunch Press website about self publishing:
At a recent book-selling event that was a topic of conversation among many of the local authors. We had time to talk because a snow storm put a damper on sales.
I firmly believe that cannabis has been unfairly demonized by those who seek to control it. I also believe that the plant should be legalized and regulated, and that this is just an other example of what happens when criminals – rather than farmers – grow this crop. our national forests get destroyed.
Cannabis is legal in California. It should be grown legally. One of the shining examples of how to grow and regulate the crop was Mendocino County’s zip-tie program. No forest lands were destroyed or poisoned when that plan was implemented.
Baker & Taylor has put up a press release:
Baker & Taylor, the world’s largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital media circulation platform.
The pilot allows Baker & Taylor’s K-12 customers to purchase access to many popular, classic and award-winning Simon & Schuster ebooks for school-aged readers. Simon & Schuster titles are now available from Baker & Taylor via Title Source 360, the company’s new, comprehensive collection development and ordering tool for library and educational customers.
