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All the tools you need to create, publish, manage, and sell your book all in one. A book proposal is a document which convinces a publisher to buy your book before youve written it. The benefits of a kindle book for the smart blogger. No more excuses, and no reason for that manuscript to be sitting on the bookcase gathering dust.
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