It was reported that 32 of the top 50 best-selling book titles in America were ebooks. That's good news for ebook self-publishers! Or indie publishers, to coin the increasingly-used term. I'm not sure who we're independent of - certainly not the ebook buyers or online vendors, or the various search engines, internet service providers, software script writers, reviewers, PayPal, the tax inspector, and so on. All these do their bit to help, helping themselves along the way of course, which is fair enough. Well, maybe I'll exclude the tax inspector from that last remark...
Richard in the street entrance to his tattoo studio in Liverpool. The vertical sign next to Richard is now in the Liverpool Tattoo Museum. Yesterday, my sister Evelyn, Richard and myself stood outside Richard's old tattoo studio and looked up at the few remaining signs, whose paint has now mostly flacked away to reveal bare wood. On the studio's window are stick-on letters which read, "Art", where once it boldly announced his presence as the city's only "Tattoo Artist". I can remember him buying that simple plastic lettering from an old-fashioned printer's shop. This was in 1993, not long after he'd opened the studio and before he could afford better signs. After he'd patiently stuck them onto the glass we realised that from the outside the sign read "Artist Tattoo", so we had to carefully peel the letters off the window and have another go, laughing over having made such an obvious error yet worried in case we spoiled the letteri...
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