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...speaking of advances, books are also leaving behind another kind of paper: money. Those cell-phone novels are generally written by amateurs and posted on free community websites, by the hundreds of thousands, with no expectation of payment. For the first time in modern history, novels are becoming detached from dollars. They're circulating outside the economy that spawned them...
Daniel Suarez, a software consultant in Los Angeles, sent his techno-thriller Daemon to 48 literary agents. No go. So he self-published instead. Bit by bit, bloggers got behind Daemon. Eventually Penguin noticed and bought it and a sequel for a sum in the high six figures. "I really see a future in doing that," Suarez says, "where agencies would monitor the performance of self-published books, in a sort of Darwinian selection process, and see what bubbles to the surface. I think of it as crowd-sourcing the manuscript-submission process...
...pieces if someone is not kicking them in the rear to get them going." I gave Woodson the old Clooney rallying speech, and the disadvantages of having an audience who listens became clear. "I'd give it a C minus," said Woodson. "You need a little more emotion behind it." For a model, he suggested I listen to a tape of retired Giants defensive end Michael Strahan before last year's NFC Championship game in Green Bay. "He said, 'It's cold out here. It's freezing. I can't feel my toes. But it's temporary. Winning is forever...
...singular, historic day, is by the great Joe Klein, whose cover story in October 2006 presciently suggested how Obama might become President. Now Joe discusses how Obama may usher in a new era of political civility. We also feature a photographic notebook by TIME photographer Callie Shell, whose behind-the-scenes photographs of Obama and his family have given our readers a special insight into the man and reveal what you can't see on television. This was her fifth Inauguration, and she says she had never experienced anything like it. She said Obama was moved by the scene...
...free enterprise, but Obama made it clear that markets are not an unalloyed good: "This crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control. The nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous." (See pictures of Obama's campaign behind the scenes...