André Klein

André Klein was born in Germany, has grown up and lived in many different places including Thailand, Sweden and Israel. He has produced two music albums, performed and organized literary readings, curated an experimental television program and is the author of various short stories and non-fiction works.

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Articles and Posts by André Klein

Why Making Books Is Like Baking Cookies

June 14, 2013

Tags: books, indie publishing
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Making books is fun. In fact, it’s rather addictive. Once you get started, it’s hard to stop. The process of bookmaking has long been in the hands of a small intellectual elite, heavily guarded by cultural gatekeepers. The internet has disrupted this machinery and exposed its arbitrary rules of admissions. Now, everyone can make books…

3 Writing Tools You Aren’t Using Yet

June 4, 2013

Tags: writing
Posted in Hacks & Tutorials, Indie Publishing | No comments

If there’s anything I’ve learned over the course of the last 15 years of writing, then it’s probably the fact that writing is a craft like any other. Listening to one’s “muse” and getting inspired is all great, but ultimately, if you don’t control the writing, it controls you! And even beyond the mere mechanics…

Why TV-Series Are The New Great Novels

May 27, 2013

Tags: novels, publishing, writing
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Whether it’s award-winning series like Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad or Downton Abbey — TV-series are thriving in the Internet age. Their stories and characters occupy people from all over the world, feeding back into discussions on blog posts, forums and Social Media. The reason for their success lies not only in great…

Are Typos The “Bugs” Of Written Language?

May 21, 2013

Posted in Books, Indie Publishing | 1 comment

In the age of instant publishing we have cut out the middleman. Publishing houses are routinely avoided and replaced with the process of self-publishing. Agents and editors are left standing aside, and while quick earnings of self published authors caused a sensation at first, an old problem is coming to the fore again: the typo….

The Digital Revolution Kills Jobs Faster Than It Creates New Ones

May 14, 2013

Tags: digital revolution, employment, jobs, unemployment
Posted in Indie Publishing, Lifestyle, Technology | No comments

There are two kinds of people: those who complain about disruption and those who celebrate it. The former are the dying indie bookstores, music labels, film industry, little publishing houses unhappy with Amazon’s ToS – the latter are the start-up generation, VC investors, code monkeys and serial entrepreneurs. To those who preach the gospel of the…