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A People’s Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business from the Ground Up

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Self–Publishing For Dummies

Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing

Oxford Handbook of Publishing

How to Market Books

The Publishing Business: A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On

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