June 29, 2015
Had you told Amanda Hocking she would be a best selling author a mere couple of years ago, while she was being rejected time after time […]
June 26, 2015
By the late 1500s the first widely recognized publishing house, House of Elzevir, arose. Five centuries later, their legacy is still reigns as writers of all […]
May 10, 2010
Mike Shatzkin, who is always informative as well as entertaining opened the annual BISG Making Information Pay seminar with some results from the survey they sent […]
February 26, 2010
Making Information Pay 2010 Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010 Time: 8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Location: McGraw-Hill Auditorium, NYC URL: http://www.bisg.org/mip Publishing Business Conference and Expo Date: […]
February 2, 2010
The Board of Directors of The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association has written an open letter to Publishers and asked them not to cut Reps
Publishers are cutting field reps because of dwindling sales with independent bookstores. However sales are likely to fall even further if you don't have a person helping the buyer make sensible decisions for their store. It baffles me that publishers are cutting their sales staff now when a sale is even harder to come by.
January 27, 2010
Things are so intense in the world today that I decided to do something fun. I created a video at Animoto It was easy. I uploaded […]
June 8, 2008
The Renegade Craft Fair (RCF) will commence from June 14-15 at the McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn.