The Official Bryan W. Alaspa Website

I woke up this morning to a bit of a surprise. I had an email from Amazon.com telling me that they had started selling my ebooks in India. Hmm, I thought, that’s interesting. I know that there are a lot of people there and they tend to have an interest in American-ish things. I guess [...]

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It’s a common questions we writers get asked: why?  Why did you decide to write about this?  This is the non-fiction writer’s equivalent to “where do you get your ideas from?” that we get as fiction writers.  Since I write in both mediums, I get asked both questions fairly routinely.  Close behind the “why” question [...]

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In October of 1933 a plane with seven people on board exploded over the skies of Chesterton, Indiana, on its way to Chicago.  Just days later, it was discovered that a bomb was responsible for blowing the tail off of the aircraft and sending it to the ground, ending the lives of seven people.  It [...]

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There is little doubt that the battle among the ereaders has come down to two major players: the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook.  They both have ereaders and they both have tablets and they are fighting it out in the market.  I love them both, although I personally own a Kindle. Anyway, [...]

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An interesting article at Mashable.com about how the Android-based Kindle Fire tablet now has over 50% of the Android tablet market.   It is amazing how popular the Fire has become so quickly. Apple’s iPad, of course, still dominates the tablet market overall.  But the article shows that Android-based tablets are slowly catching up. I [...]

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