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Reflections of a working writer and reader

Sure, it feels good to make something, but that doesn't mean that what you've made is good. At some point, every writer has to shift gears from writer to reader, looking at her work with a critical eye and then making the hard editorial choices necessary to bring the project from childlike innocence to hard-won maturity. Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

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Amazon Prices

Imagine this: You go to a bookstore, browse, choose a couple of volumes. But you don’t want to carry the books around. So you ask the clerk to hold the tomes until Saturday, when you’ll come back to buy them.
When you return, the bookseller hands you the items but advises you that he’s raised the prices. “I knew you were hot to buy them,” the clerk says, “so I figured I could make a few extra bucks.”
That’s what it feels like online bookseller Amazon.com Inc. has been doing to me . . . read more of this article from David Streitfeld, LA Times Staff Writer.

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