Articles tagged with: Publishing and Business
I review a lot of proposals - some I have requested and some I haven’t. I am fine with receiving unsolicited proposals - every so often you do get something amazing you weren’t expecting. …
My publisher, John Wiley & Sons, released its 10-Q today.
Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008 of $388.6 million increased 48% from $263.4 million in the prior year’s first quarter, or 46% …
Author JA Konrath reminds us of the parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper in his very straightforward and honest advice for authors.
If your blog is only relevant to a few close friends, and your …
Marketing Director Ellen Gerstein attended the Blog to Book and Back Again session at the recent BlogHer conference and asked me to share my thoughts on some of the questions raised there.
1. Can blog content …
We spend a lot of time thinking and talking about book covers. While you can’t judge a book by its cover, it certainly is part of the buying process. This is especially important in trade …
The Guardian’s Nicholas Clee wonders about the future of the publishing industry after our friend Harry hangs up his robes for good.
Even Bloomsbury has Harry headaches. The huge profits that the novels generate lead the …
Check out this amazing hybrid creation from Manolis Kelaidis that combines a traditional book over-printed with conductive ink. Manolis presented his project blueBook at the O’Reilly TOC conference this week and is receiving rave …
Jeff Gomez, writing at one of my favorite and thought-provoking e-content blogs Print Is Dead, has a great article covering Chris Anderson’s speech at the O’Reilly TOC conference entitled “FREE: The Economics of Abundance and …
Tim has announced O’Reilly is now offering books on a per chapter basis. That is you can buy an entire e-book, or just the chapter(s) you want, and it appears they will be rolling …
If you read my post yesterday about Brian Solis’s look at Social Media for PR and Marketing you will be interested in this announcement from Simon and Schuster. Remember item #4 in yesterday’s post …
