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Mikhail G. Shapiro, a first-year at Brown University, was at Columbia on Saturday for a student government function. He described the campus atmosphere as "drab...
...think people were disgusted," Shapiro said. "The way both of them died is grotesque...
...Shapiro said he saw both faces of the tragedy...
Editors at various traditional publishing houses, including two top Manhattan firms, loved Melisse Shapiro's first novel, Lip Service, the story of a homemaker turned phone-sex worker, but their marketing executives didn't. (Too sexy for our readers, they said.) That nixed what would have been her first big publishing deal...
...Shapiro decided to find her own audience. In June 1998 she set up a website to sell a download of her book for $12.95, under the pseudonym M.J. Rose. Then she began offering a printed version. Lip Service sold 1,500 copies online, and was picked up by the Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild. It went on to sell more than 12,000 hard copies by September, and Shapiro became the poster girl for a new phenomenon--e-publishing as a cottage industry...