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“...[Trump] may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS...” This is outrageous admission from a news organization, and clearly articulates the problem with what we euphemistically describe as journalism today. The behavior of CBS and their peers is THE reason Donald has a great chance of actually becoming the president of the united states. Ok we know the POTUS is a figurehead largely responsible for doing the bidding of the ultra rich, but to actually elect of of these guys is alarming. But hey in a culture fed on reality TV and celebrity, what do you expect? The most outrageous and the most popular wins.

Several years ago AALBC.com, following the lead of industry leaders like Kirkus, began offering fee based book reviews. This service was also added in reaction to the on going problem is receiving FAR more requests for book reviews than we could afford to pay writers to write. The fee based book review guarantees a review written by a professional book reviewer in 6 weeks or less. We continue to write and publish free (free to the author) book reviews, so the problem of receiving more requests than we can handle persists You may have noticed a recent increase in the number of authors posting information about their books on the website with some explicitly expressing an interest in a book review. This is the result in a recent procedure change, as it relates to requesting an AALBC.com book review (free). Previously AALBC.com accepted book review requests via email, but takes a significant portion of time to review and reply to these requests. As a result, I only replied to those authors whose books we chose to review. Given that the vast majority of these book would not be reviewed, this policy made sense in terms of efficiency. However the author's effort was wasted if their book was not reviewed. Recently I decided to instruct authors to post book review requests on our literature forum. This offers the author several significant benefits: The book will be seen by readers who visit the forum, which is free promotion and an opportunity to directly engage with readers. I use this forum to look for eNewsletter and website content, so there are, potentially, additional opportunities for book promotion beyond the book review. The book's information will become a permanent part of the website with is good for SEO. AALBC.com will only consider books posted on the forum for review. The likelihood a book being reviewed goes up dramatically, because the pool of books considered for reviews gets smaller, as many authors will continue to send emails (oblivious to, or ignoring the policy). This is win-win. I'm looking forward to discovering more books as a result of this policy and continuing to improve this platform for allowing authors to share information about their work.

So true. Without a blog, your words have no where to live, so to speak.

ALL THE NEWS CHANNELS SHOW DONALD TRUMP EVERY MINUTE/DONALD TRUMP KKK SUPPORTERS,FIGHTING WITH BLACK PROTESTERS/RACIST WHITE TRUMP SUPPORTER HITS BLACK PROTESTER,THEN SAID NEXT TIME HE WILL KILL THE BLACK PROTESTER/BEN CARSON SUPPORTS TRUMP/NOT LONG AGO TRUMP SAID BEN CARSON WAS MENTALLY UNSTABLE.///TRUMP LIKES THE CHAOS/

oooooooh I loooove this! I know people that have written their whole, and I do mean their whole life story on FB! No one has ever given them permission to write on that level. Now that they have it, maybe they will use it.

Once again we end up right where we always end up and I as always I will add that we all need to bookmark websites and remember to visit the sites as much as possible.

As I start to reduce my use of Facebook I'm beginning to realize just how entangled I am with the platform. Over the years, out of convenience, I've been using my Facebook ID to login to all types of websites--including this discussion forum. For the convenience of using my Facebook credentials to log into this discussion forum and other sites, I'm telling Facebook exactly what I'm doing, where I'm doing it and how long I'm doing it. Obviously Facebook is using this information to improve what they are doing, which of course means crushing any competition or assimilating their content. I'm sure this information is part of the dataset Facebook sells to marketers as well. As a result, I've been slowly removing my Facebook logins. Fortunately the forum's software allows me to merge accounts. So I created a new account just using my email address, then I merged my old account which used my Facebook credentials into the new account.