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Meet the author (online)
By 800-CEO-READ
Most authors have a web site and/or blog where they discuss their experiences writing and publishing the book, touring the country with it, and upcoming events. The author of How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything in Business (and in Life), Dov Seidman, invites you to visit his web site here: http://www. howsmatter.
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Holy Shit.
By 800-CEO-READ
I am listening to the keynotes at Tools of Change. Manolis Kelaidis is talking about his bluebook project. He has prototyped a book that will interact with other devices.
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TOC - Business Models that Guarantee Profitability in Publishing
By 800-CEO-READ
Bob Pritchett, CEO of Logos Bible Software, is talking about their direct to customer business model. They have 500,000 users and about 20% of those are returning customers. Their business involves developing electronic versions of religious texts from both acquiring rights for existing publishers and developing original content.
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Print on Demand Workshop from Day One
By 800-CEO-READ
There was a great session on Print on Demand yesterday. Here are some quick notes: Ingram's POD service, Lighting Source, shared these stats from their service: 500,000+ titles available 14,000,000 printed thus far 1. 3 million printed each month average print run - 1.
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Our favorite bald guy
By 800-CEO-READ
If you're an author, you'd probably enjoy these 10 questions with our favorite bald guy. To get you started, here's the first question: 1) With 172,000 books published in 2005 in the US alone, it seems like everyone is doing it now. Is a book still a good way to distinguish my ideas?
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2007 Quill Nominees
By 800-CEO-READ
2007 Quill Nominees by Kate At BEA, the 2007 Quill Award nominees were announced. What titles were eligible? Eligible titles for the 2007 Quill Awards were those published between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007.
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What Publishers Are Saying Readers Want
By 800-CEO-READ
What Publishers Are Saying Readers Want by Todd S. It is always interesting to hear what publishers think readers are looking for. Publishers Weekly runs a feature each year on the trends in business books.
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Title for A New Book
By 800-CEO-READ
Richard Florida of Rise of the Creative Class and Flight of the Creative Class is looking for some help on the title for his next book. Some of the ideas include: The Wealth of Place Who's Your City? Where Location Factor Why Place Matters Geography is Destiny What's Your LQ (Location Quotient) I suggest in the comments that they keep working on it.
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Book Videos
By 800-CEO-READ
In a time where book reviews are disappearing from major newspapers and magazines, one of the larger publishers Simon & Schuster (owned by CBS) is trying out online videos on books. Next month is the premiere of their new website Bookvideos. tv that will aide consumers in their choices and direct them towards Simon's books.
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Publicity and no book.
By 800-CEO-READ
Mignon Fogarty, of the popular podcast Grammar Girl, is writing a book due out next year through Henry Holt & Company. Typically in the publishing world, a book precedes the audiobook (or in some cases is released simultaneously). For Mignon, this wasn't the case.
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