Business Week’s David Kiley says “Obama is great for newspapers” and describes his search for a newspaper this morning, only to find there were none available at the many locations he looked.
Mr. Kiley wraps his …
Interesting books, authors, and advice for writers including tips for writing a great book proposal, working with agents, publishing contracts and more.
Geek Alert! Here is where I write about technology trends and things I find just plain cool. These may or may not have much to do with publishing.
Advice, ideas, and tools for building a platform that can help you promote your personal brand, and your work.
Thoughts on the publishing industry, changes in content creation and delivery, and business and management topics.
How the social web is changing business, and ways we can build relationships that can promote, support, and add value to our products.
On The Eve of The London Book Fair
(tags: books)
The Times they are a Changin
(tags: books writing publishing)
Do you have a BlogHer Hero?
(tags: blogher contest wiley)
Pirillo Does it Best
(tags: video)
Since last weekend, Creative Labs has been dealing with a PR nightmare over its reaction to daniel_k, a programmer who was providing modified sound card drivers that resolved Windows Vista compatibility issues for some products. …
MONEY With A Capital M-O-N-E-Y
(tags: writing advance royalty)
on writing less
(tags: writing books)
Paul Watson has written an essay entitled The Future for Publishers in which he suggests new roles publishers will play in content promotion, distribution, and ultimately how we may be generating revenues in the future. …
I wanted to share a great post by Charlene Li on the Groundswell blog entitled Turning radicals into revolutionaries: the key to kick-starting your social strategy. As I sometimes struggle with the speed at …
Chris Wilson over at Fresh Peel has put together a very social-media centric marketing blitz for the upcoming Age of Conversation book by Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan.
Age of Conversation is a self-published work that …
Education Services Firm Follett Acquires E-Book Marketplace CafeScribe
A boost for electronic textbooks?
(tags: textbooks ebooks)
The Community Ecosystem
Chris Brogan on contributing to the social media ecosystem.
(tags: social media)
Micro Persuasion: Three Internet Careers That Soon Won’t Exist
(tags: business …
There is some really great debate over on the TeleRead Blog concerning DRM, copyright, and piracy. As the TeleRead blog has grown, David has added new columnists (disclaimer: including Wiley publisher Joe Wikert) which …
Barnes and Noble Reports 2007 Results
(tags: booksellers sales reports bn)
Borders, B&N Flirt Tentatively Through Media
“I think it would be the height of irresponsibility for us not to look at something presented to us. If they …
Many publishers are struggling with the idea of free content, and how it fits into their traditional business strategy. Square peg, round hole - the model needs to change, but that’s another post. …
Note: The following is a portion of a presentation given at the recent Wiley EMEA Sales Conference by Christine Dunn, Director of Marketing. She was kind enough to allow me to share it here.
I’m …
Looks like Twitter got a new round of funding today, and you may be thinking “so what?” I’m interested because one of the new investors is Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos who as Read Write Web put …
My Colleagues at Capstone have recently released a book trailer for their upcoming book, Dear Celebrity. I know you have seen book trailers before but this one has a bit of a twist - …
I only recently discovered the cleverly written publishing blog of the mysterious “Moonrat“, an anonymous editor at an unrevealed publishing house.
In a recent post, Moonrat (ok, so I feel silly typing that) discusses what went …
Like many of you, I use Twitter. (@chriswebb) I use it for a variety of reasons, both personal and professional but have always thought of it as a very ‘personal’ tool. By that I mean …