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...source of information during campaigns. The commission should inform voters of the logistics of voting, freeing up campaigns to take on more substantial platforms. Similarly, the commission should provide voters with basic candidate platform information. The commission could easily compile candidates’ stances on major campaign issues and publish them in some public domain accessible to all voters—the commission’s web site, for example. A single source of information on substantive issues could dramatically transform the nature of campaigns; with voters better informed, candidates could concentrate more energy on debating the issues, rather than...
Until, that is, Dean Carter placed a call to the printer and said the administration would be exercising prior review—and the threat of censorship—over The Innovator. The paper’s staff, refusing to publish under those conditions, filed suit in defense of their first amendment rights...
...When I finished my first English-language novel, Lili, in 1998, it took me three years to find an American publisher. During that time, agents and publishers suggested that I publish Lili as a biography or memoir instead of as fiction. The commercial success of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Adeline Yeh Mah's Falling Leaves had proved that memoirs about China sell. When I refused to change categories, I was turned down. But when Ha Jin's novel Waiting became a best-seller in the U.S., my luck changed...
...other frustration is that few Chinese publishers abide by their contracts. "There's no way for authors to keep track of their sales records," she says. "Even worse, Chinese publishers sometimes publish your work without telling you." It has never been easy for authors to make money in China. A regular Chinese book costs only $2, and a print run of 20,000 is considered good for a novel written by a well-known author. With an 8% royalty, an author can expect to make only about $3,200-a pittance in comparison with what can be made...
...came to David Fox in a rush one day last summer. The University of Minnesota paleontologist had become so irritated with all the White House talk about a pre-emptive war that he decided to type a manifesto decrying it. He figured the campus paper would publish his four-page, single-spaced letter, which he first e-mailed to a few colleagues to get a few signatures. Within days he had 230. When the petition grew too large for the paper's letters section, Fox and his friends paid $900 to publish the letter as an ad. Soon...