Any publisher will tell you that audiobooks are big business these days: the increase in digital audio is the only thing propping up digital revenues for most of the big publishers as ebook revenues continue to fall off a cliff. But making an audiobook is expensive, and requires a skillset well beyond that of most […]
Continue readingWe’ve been discussing the ‘best’ way to make notes in the This Book Means Business Bootcamp – in quotes as of course your best way may be very different to my best way, and frankly my best way one day might be different to my best day on another. One of the bootcampers brought up […]
Continue readingRecognise this thought process? ‘I want this to be more than just a book you read. I want people to engage with it, to be able to reflect and scribble down thoughts and answer questions as they go: I know, I’ll put space for them to write in the book!’ It’s a good thought process, […]
Continue readingJust sharing here something I have just posted in The Extraordinary Business Book Club in Facebook: Just uploaded tomorrow’s Best Bits episode – I absolutely LOVE putting these together, gives me chance to look back over the last 9 episodes and reflect on the common themes and the individual moments of genius. Thanks to those […]
Continue readingEvery tenth episode of The Extraordinary Business Book Club is a chance to look back at the previous 9 episodes and pick out not just the ‘best bits’, the stories or tips that partiuclarly struck me and/or listeners as funny or useful or inspirational, but to look at the big picture, the common themes and […]
Continue readingI set my bootcamp group a challenge this week: to create content in a form they’ve never used before. It’s so easy to think, ‘Better write a blog post.’ But there’s a whole smorgasbord of content possibilities out there. And they’re rising to the challenge beautifully: one has just posted in the group her first […]
Continue readingI have just interviewed the wonderful Pam Didner, global content marketing expert and author of Global Content Marketing (what else?) – the episode will be broadcast in September. Along with all the fascinating insights into what it means to create content with international reach, she shared her own experience of writing. I asked her what […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is over at BookMachine: https://bookmachine.org/2017/07/12/what-cory-doctorow-taught-me-about-drm/. But here’s a nice pic of Cory since you’re here.
Continue readingOne of my Mastermind group shared a link today to an article that hit home: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/your-money/free-yourself-of-your-harshest-critic-and-plow-ahead.html?_r=0. It’s by Carl Richards, aka Sketch Guy at the New York Times. He puts out a sketch and essay every week, knowing every time they’re going to be seen by millions of people, all of whom are likely to have […]
Continue readingSunday night is movie night, and last night it was The Force Awakens. Child 2 is 9, and therefore mildly obsessed by Star Wars, and Harrison Ford is in it of course, and I’m mildly obsessed with him, so it was all good. We were watching the scene towards the end where the x-wing fighter […]
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