Edward Flattau: Profiles in Courage

Edward Flattau, environmental columnist and author of upcoming book Green Morality, released a new column today about recent leadership on environmentalism. The column can be found at Mr. Flattau’s official website and in various syndicated outlets nationwide, including Huffington Post.

Excerpt:

Maybe there is some merit to electing to high office senior citizens whose better days in public service are supposedly behind them. Former civil servants in their “golden years” might be a little slower on the uptake. But at their age, many of them feel they have nothing more to prove and thus, boldly promote their favorite, oft controversial causes without worrying about rubbing anyone the wrong way.

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Kathleen Kaufman: Super Amazing Caption Contest! Enter And Win!

Author Kathleen Kaufman posted a blog inviting her readers to create captions for particularly hilarious photos she found in a catalog at A Rock To Tie A String Around.

Excerpt:

Recently, I received the best catalog EVER in the mail. Ever. I’m not being hyperbolic; it really is the best catalog in the whole entire universe…at least for a writer. It wasn’t one of those Brookstone catalogs that illustrate 10,000 different ways to massage yourself, the Discovery Store catalog with giant maps of solar systems and volcanic ranges….it wasn’t even one of those catalogs from the airplane that sells things like motorized cat shampooers and hands free bread slicers. No, it was a clothing catalog from Deva….never heard of them until now, but they are awesome, not so much for what they sell, but how they sell it.

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The Way Things Are Publications: Efficiency As A Roadmap for the E-Reader Revolution

Los Angeles Independent Publisher Issues A Statement Exploring Efficiency As A Cost-Saving Business Model For Publishing

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (July 22, 2010) – The Way Things Are Publications, a Los Angeles based independent press that focuses on raising public awareness on social issues, announced today the release of an official editorial on the effect of increased eB00k sales on the publishing industry. The topic of the editorial, “Efficiency As A Roadmap for the E-Reader Revolution” explores eBook statistical trends, the potential affect on publishers, and how publishers can control losses as a result of these trends through efficient business models.

The increased eBook sales reaching top of mind from a recent statement by Amazon.com Inc. that eBooks have outsold hardcovers three months in a row, have caused speculation on whether or not the increased sales are cannibalizing print sales. The editorial states that whether or not hardcover sales are affected, the fundamental change in consumer behavior requires a shift in publisher practices including new efficiencies to control costs within in an already tight margin.

“Our company’s editorial series is a way for us to deliver our unique perspective to the industry, retailer, and consumer.” said Jennifer Havenner, Director of Publishing for The Way Things Are Publications. “These are changing times in the publishing world and an agile, adaptive, efficient business is necessary to navigate these new waters.”

The July editorial was released today and is available for download for free at The Way Things Are Publications website.

About The Way Things Are Publications

The Way Things Are Publications is a publisher of fiction, non-fiction, and periodicals that share philosophical sensibilities and strive to elevate social consciousness. The company chooses publications based upon the social relevance of the material and the author’s intention to address the philosophical nuances of our society and civilization. For more information visit http://www.waythingsarepublications.com and on Twitter@waythingsare. Jennifer Havenner, the Director of Publishing, has a blog on The Huffington Post.

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Edward Flattau: Dismissing the Public

Edward Flattau, environmental columnist and author of upcoming book Green Morality, released a new column today about gun legislation in Washington DC. The column can be found at Mr. Flattau’s official website and in various syndicated outlets nationwide, including Huffington Post.

Excerpt:

There are Republican congressional candidates this fall who intend to run campaigns that insult the intelligence of the American people. Will voters recognize this dismissive treatment when they receive it from the party in the minority, and even if they do, are they so angry about their personal situation that in protest, they cast their ballot for their disparagers anyway?

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Efficiency As A Roadmap For The E-Reader Revolution

Efficiency As A Roadmap For the E-Reader Revolution

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Recent trends and tech economics have made it abundantly clear that 2010 was the year digital books ousted traditional books as the leading format. Just this month, Amazon.com Inc. reported that it sold more eBooks for the Kindle than hardcover books for three consecutive months.1 While Amazon is only about 10% of the book business, it is representative of a larger trend. In December, Random House reported that eBook sales increased by “triple-digit percentages,”2 and in January, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) reported that eBook sales jumped 370% over January 2009.3 This explosion of sales is not entirely resting as a windfall within the publishing world as the industry doesn’t know yet if these sales are cannibalizing traditional books.4 However, Amazon’s recent news is a certain indication that this is the next phase of the industry, if not a long-term trend.

Although in a time of transition with many unknowns, publishers now must look at their business models and determine how best to navigate these uncertain waters. Should the eBook trend be a boon to sales without chewing up sales of the printed book, then publishers have a new format to manage, along with vastly different marketing processes, distribution channels, copyright infringement concerns, and the immense task of breaking through the clutter and reaching their target audience. If, on the other hand, eBook sales are cannibalizing print sales, even to a minimal extent, the publishers will need to readjust their distribution channels, fall back on print distribution, and somehow keep price points competitive on the eBooks without losing the bank to high marketing costs and distributor discounts. In either case, the existing model is inadequate to support such a massive shift in consumer behavior.

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Washington D.C. Environmental Columnist Edward Flattau’s Treatise On Society’s Moral Obligation To Environmentalism Available For Pre-Order Online

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (July 22, 2010) – Edward Flattau, the nation’s longest running syndicated environmental newspaper columnist, is releasing his fourth book, “Green Morality”, on September 15, 2010. The book, an illustrated hardcover non-fiction, is the culmination of research from Flattau’s forty-year career that explores the immoral underbelly of the earth’s ongoing and escalating environmental crisis and is now available at the publisher’s website for an exclusive lowered-price pre-order.

Published by Los Angeles independent social issues press, The Way Things Are Publications, “Green Morality” analyzes manmade global environmental atrocities supporting a theme that environmentalism must become a universal moral imperative to avert long-term environmental destruction. Flattau discusses topics ranging from corporate and industrial environmental immorality to failed public policies, and corrupt or immobilized political leaders. The book advocates a re-alignment of modern society’s value system and economic infrastructure in order to avert environmental destruction and create an environmentally and economically sustainable society.

“Mr. Flattau’s distinguished 40-year career has chronicled the highs and lows of the environmental movement,” said Jennifer Havenner, Director of Publishing for The Way Things Are Publications. “It is a privilege to publish this timely book that calls upon each and every one of us to face up to the environmental crises for no other reasons than it is the right thing to do—and we’ll pay dearly if we don’t. The atrocities brought to light in Flattau’s discourse are punctuated by a fearless analysis of mankind’s moral duty to stop the reckless endangerment of our environment. It is an importantly eminent message that I believe the world needs to hear.”

“Green Morality” includes a preface by renowned environmentalist William A. Butler of Georgetown University and we be available in all major bookstores and online September, 2010.

About Edward Flattau

Edward Flattau is the nation’s longest running syndicated environmental newspaper columnist with 40 years in the industry, columns in more than 120 daily newspapers, assignments from his Washington D.C. base, around the country, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, and the recipient of ten national journalism awards. In addition to newspaper syndication through Global Horizons, Edward Flattau blogs on The Huffington Post and posts news and updates on Twitter and on Facebook.

About The Way Things Are Publications

The Way Things Are Publications is a publisher of fiction, non-fiction, and periodicals that share philosophical sensibilities and strive to elevate social consciousness. The company chooses publications based upon the social relevance of the material and the author’s intention to address the philosophical nuances of our society and civilization. For more information visit http://www.waythingsarepublications.com and on Twitter @waythingsare.

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Edward Flattau: Pistol Whipping

Edward Flattau, environmental columnist and author of upcoming book Green Morality, released a new column today about Republican midterm political tactics. The column can be found at Mr. Flattau’s official website and in various syndicated outlets nationwide, including Huffington Post.

Excerpt:

Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, wants to prevent the District of Columbia from banning pistol-toting individuals the right of entry into public places. In McCain’s world, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Wyatt Earp’s Tombstone, even the District’s schools and recreation centers would be accessible to folks carrying licensed concealed weapons — a fine environment for kids!

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Kathleen Kaufman: We Are All Whoopi Goldberg

Author Kathleen Kaufman posted commentary on Mel Gibson’s current state and Whoopi Goldberg’s response on her blog, A Rock To Tie A String Around.

Excerpt:

If anyone is in bigger trouble than Mel Gibson lately, it’s his BFF Whoopi Goldberg. You’ve all seen the stories, Whoopi is in some seriously hot water for stating that he couldn’t possibly be a racist because he’s her friend and he’s hung out with her kids. Uh huh.

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Listen to Edward Flattau on “Green is Good”

Edward Flattau was interviewed recently on the “Green is Good” radio show with John Shegerian and Mike Brady. The lengthy segment goes into some of the major themes in Green Morality and explores Flattau’s take on how environmentalism has changed in the past 40 years.

http://greenisgood.fm/2010/07/james-ehrlich-hippy-gourmet-green-morality-ed-flattau/

 

Kathleen Kaufman: Arizona: Land of Horrors

Author Kathleen Kaufman muses about the horrifying aspects of the State of Arizona in her blog “A Rock to Tie a String Around”.

Excerpt:

I’ve long held the belief that Papua New Guinea is a land of horrors. Between the cannibals, the biting frogs and the over 100 species of poisonous flowers, it would give Neil Gaiman nightmares.

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