Slow Pokes: Short story on the changing world of writing

Written by Jesse S. Somer


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Excitedly he asked, “What is an E Book?

“It’s an electronic text. You can download whole books offrepparttar Net in a few minutes, even old out-of-print books. You can put your own E Book on a website. You can even access publishers’ sites and find out what their specific criteria and policies are.”

Sitting straight up in his chair Johnny Jenkins Jr. ripped out one of his famous (among our friends) stream-of-consciousness poems:

Slow Pokes

Purple turtle faster thanrepparttar 128677 hare Super sloth flying, wind in her hair Master slug puts himself into fifth gear Simon Snail hang-gliding without fear How fast doesrepparttar 128678 Sun fly through Space? How fast does a smile appear on your face? Why are humans so slow to know? When will they finally take control?

We both burst out laughing. It was good to see Johnny back to his old self. Then I remembered something really cool I’d wanted to tell him.

“ You know when you’re talking about a quotation from a book you love, likerepparttar 128679 Seafarer Rat’s tale in Wind inrepparttar 128680 Willows, but you just can’t find it to show it to me.

“Yeah.” said Johnny.

“Well, in an E Book you can use your word processor’s (like Word) search facility to find those quotes instantly just by typing inrepparttar 128681 words you remember!”

Johnny looked totally transformed, “ That is incredible!” he whispered.

“You see, computer technology is here to help all people, we don’t have allrepparttar 128682 answers to life-but we are evolving. However, I would like to know that world’s best pizza recipe right now. Pizza technology is also very important to human evolution!”

Jesse S. Somer, M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is a technological novice hoping to inform others like himself about the miracle of the Internet.


Time-Saving Skills to Get More from Your Writing

Written by Jim Green


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Here are some other online places you can visit.

LITERARY LEAPS Thousands of publishers, bookstores, literary locales. http://www.literaryleaps.com

BOOK MARKET ‘If you are new to book marketing, you’ve come torepparttar right site’ – John Kremer, editor, Book Marketing Update newsletter. http://www.bookmarket.com

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DEVELOPING A DISTINCTIVE TITLE FOR YOUR BOOK

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