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Mark Coker of Smashwords became the leader of indie e-book writers--including some with dirty minds--in a fight against censorship and PayPal. He also has strong feelings about the DOJ's e-book pricing lawsuit.

Once your start-up grows to more than 10 people, it's hard to maintain a sense of organizational focus. Here's how we did it at IndieGoGo.

Sites such as Ideeli, Lot18, Gilt Groupe, and Rue La La are offering carefully curated deals at reduced prices.

From the twisted mind behind some of the funniest, weirdest, cringe-inducing comedy of the last decade comes a new podcast channel born for Funny or Die. At any given moment of the day, you can be in the front row of your own curated comedy club: Conan sidekick Andy Richter yukking it up with comedian-writer Paul F. Tompkins , for instance, or Patton Oswalt expressing deep disgust about well--does it matter?

The National Endowment for the Arts says so, and is even putting its funding where its mouth is. But the gaming community says it's probably too soon to pop the champagne corks

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When Ian Gaffney and Samantha Abrams were looking to expand their upstate New York organic, raw, and vegan snack food company, they turned to an unlikely source for business advice: Gaffney's brother's rock band. The band, the Makepeace Brothers, had just successfully paid for the recording of their latest album using IndieGoGo , the crowdfunding site that lets users raise money for projects—and that means anything from a rock album to an art projects to cancer research.