Andrew Hyde

Founder of Startup Weekend and Startup Enthusiast Based in Boulder, Colorado

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06.13.12

Kindle Sales Vanish When Users Know About Their Fees to Authors

A few things happend after my post about Amazon’s 127,000% markup. Well, there were 40k visits to this blog in 24 hours (which at one point actually brought the site down) thanks to Hacker News, Radar, Reddit, The Domino Project, The Next Web and a few smaller blogs. I met a ton of great authors, vendors…

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04.9.12

The Usability of a Book

I’m in the last few stages of This Book is About Travel with a few major decisions to be made.

The main contention point is over the notion of usability and books. As an author, I would love for everyone wanting to read the book to be able to get it into their hands and everyone starting…

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10.4.11

The 52 Books I Read in 52 Weeks

I decided to read a lot more. Made a goal of it. 52 books in 52 weeks seemed like a stupid idea (I’d make it through 10 books and quit, I thought). Julien did it, and so could I. Somehow it stuck as a goal and, even more astonishingly, I accomplished it.

I’ve rated them from —…

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