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July 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Tad Friend has been reverted.
Your edit here to Tad Friend was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://byliner.com/tad-friend/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Ann Patchett do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia.  
Your edit here to Ann Patchett was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://byliner.com/ann-patchett/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 19:01, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

External Links

Is a link to Byliner.com inappropriate? It's a collection of links to works by the author, all of which are online, and free. I looked over the submission guidelines, and I'm not sure which rule the link violates. It's a private company, but it's a well-maintained collection and it's directly relevant to the author because it's her work. I'm new at this, so that may not be right, but seems like a good link. Pocushocus (talk) 18:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

It's not a good link. See the the linking policy, WP:EL for starters. There's no effective difference between linking to it and linking to on-line bookstores such as Amazon or B&N. If we allowed this type of link, every article would be full of dozens to hundreds of links to affiliate marketers, who would war amongst themselves for placement. It's a chronic problem as it is; this year alone, I've probably remove over 100 links to affiliate marketers of art.com, who simply throw up a nice collection of art images on a cheap webhost so they can sell prints. No new information about the artist (they sometimes have a stale Wikipedia page, in fact) and no images that aren't available through Google. Studerby (talk) 23:06, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Byliner

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Status	Active
Founded	2010
Founder	John Tayman
Country of origin	USA
Headquarters location	San Francisco
Key people	John Tayman (Founder & CEO) Mark Bryant (Editorial Director & Co-founder) Ted Barnett (COO & Co-founder)
Publication types	e-books
Nonfiction topics	non-fiction, fiction
Official website	byliner.com

Byliner is a digital publisher of narrative journalism and fiction based in San Francisco. It was founded in 2010 by writer and editor John Tayman (former editor for Outside, Men's Journal, and Play).. The publishing house specializes in commissioned works of nonfiction by established authors, ranging from 10,000 to 35,000 words in length. It releases its titles primarily as e-books, and distributes them through retail stores such as Apple, and Barnes & Noble, Amazon in a variety of e-book formats.

Byliner’s first published work, Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer, was released on April 19, 2011. It was downloaded over 70,000 times in the first 72 hours of publication, after the show 60 Minutes aired a feature on the same material. Byliner's catalogue includes fiction and nonfiction stories by established writers, such as Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, Lawrence Lessig, Ann Patchett, William T. Vollmann and Amy Tan, in addition to a variety of works by lesser-known writers, including Elizabeth Kaye, whose Lifeboat No. 8 was the first e-single to reach no. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Writers publishing works through Byliner receive 50% of the revenue from sales of their work, in addition to a commission fee.

Byliner also operates a website, Byliner.com, which holds an archive of over 30,000 fiction and nonfiction stories by more than 2000 different writers from a variety of publications. The fact that the website organizes articles by author, and offers users suggestions of similar writers, has drawn numerous comparisons to the music website Pandora. Byliner.com also serves as a distribution platform for the company's original published work.

Published Works

• Three Cups of Deceit (by John Krakauer) 4/20/2011
• Into the Forbidden Zone (by William T. Vollmann) 9/12/2011
• And the War Came (by Jamie Malanowski) 6/3/2011
• Planet Killers (by Tad Friend) 6/18/2011
• I Hope Like Heck (by Michael Solomon) 6/18/2011
• The Baby Chase (by Holly Finn) 7/8/2011
• The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin (by Elizabeth Mitchell) 8/17/2011
• The Getaway Car (by Ann Patchett) 8/25/2011
• Cooking Solves Everything (by Mark Bittman) 9/20/2011
• The Cartel (by Taylor Branch) 9/21/2011
• "Joan" (by Sara Davidson) 10/21/2011
• Lady with a Past (by Elizabeth Mitchell) 10/21/2011
• Sleeping with Famous Men (by Elizabeth Kaye) 10/12/2011
• A Killing in Iowa (by Rachel Corbett) 11/14/2011
• Rules for Virgins (by Amy Tan) 12/5/2011
• The Secret World of Saints (by Bill Donahue) 12/21/2011
• Death Comes to Happy Valley (by Jonathan Mahler) 1/24/2012
• One Way Forward (by Lawrence Lessig) 2/12/2012
• I'm Starved for You (by Margaret Atwood) 3/7/2012
• Sober Is My New Drunk (by Paul Carr) 3/9/2012
• Lifeboat No. 8 (by Elizabeth Kaye) 3/16/2012
• Don't Eat Cat (by Jess Walter) 3/28/2012
• Farthest North (by Todd Balf) 4/10/2012
• After Friday Night Lights (by Buzz Bissinger) 4/19/2012
• The Ghost (by Paige Williams) 5/21/2012
• How to Get Away with Murder in America (by Evan Wright)
• Everyone's Reading Bastard (by Nick Hornby) 6/26/2012
• All My Love, Samples Later (by Craig Vetter) 7/13/2012

Co-Published Works

• Now That We Have Tasted Hope (with McSweeney's) 5/14/2012
• Blood Calls to Blood (with Zyzzyva) 6/28/2012
• New York Magazine's Most Popular (with New York) 7/16/2012

External Links

• Byliner, official site

Category:Book publishing companies based in San Francisco, California Category:Online publishers Category:Publishing companies established in 2010