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seedmagazine.com - 10/31/2009
A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish. Before 1455, books were handwritten, and it took a scribe a year to produce a Bible. Today, it takes only a minute to send a tweet or update a blog. Rates of authorship are increasing by historic orders of magnitude. Nearly universal ...

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EVERYBODY LOVES DEMONIC CANDY
Amygdala — ... I assume they've taken this guy down by now. Stop writing so much: Otherwise, this may happen: a relationship warning: © ...

We Are All Authors Now (And Publishers Too)
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Seed magazine: By 2000, there were 1 million book authors per year. One million authors is a lot, but they are only a tiny fraction, 0.01 percent, of the nearly 7 billion people on Earth. Since 1400, book authorship has grown nearly tenfold in each century. Currently, authorship, including books and new media, is growing nearly tenfold each year. That’s 100 times faster. Authors, once a select minority, will soon be a majority. Today, at 0.1 percent authorship, many people are ...