Archive for November, 2007
The Book Proposal: Tips for Writing a Winning Book Proposal
You will find quite a bit about writing winning book proposals on this site - but you wont find them all in one place. All the posts are tagged book-proposal, but I thought it would be a good idea to group them together. Keep in mind I work in technology publishing, so some [...]
Good Reads for 11/22/07
Industry Growth by the Numbers
(tags: Publishing content)
Why Traditional Books Will Eventually Die
(tags: Publishing books content)
Bookvideos.TV No Longer S&S-Exclusive
(tags: Publishing books video)
Kindling Openness and Impact
(tags: Publishing ebooks amazon.com)
Kindle failure would mean biz failure of obnoxious DRM lockups, Evan—not E-BOOK failure
(tags: Publishing ebooks kindle amazon.com drm)
Why social marketing will help drive long-term value for businesses…
(tags: social media [...]
Banned From Google - How I Finally Got Listed
I have had several frustrating months in getting my website listed in the Google index. For the first 9 months, this blog was not listed anywhere on Google. I had several quality links in, was writing good content, following all the guidelines - but still no Google listing. I was providing a [...]
A Facebook Ban for Dummies Man
Like many companies, we have been dipping our toe into the social applications waters with some of our brands. Our Wrox brand has a Facebook Group and a Twitter Stream, and until recently our iconic ambassador of our For Dummies series, Dummies Man, had his own Facebook profile.
Collegaue Ellen Gerstein, who had been managing [...]
WordPress Update Leads to Template Trouble
I recently updated this site to WordPress 2.3.1 and it seems my template doesn’t completely like the new version. This site looks pretty bad under IE 6, but I’m working to get it corrected this evening.
In the mean time there is always the RSS feed.
