Today’s blog is a trip down memory lane over at BookMachine, remembering ten things that used to be part of the daily grind for publishers that just don’t exist any more. Ahh, I loved the smell of ozalids in the morning… https://bookmachine.org/2016/12/06/10-things-that-used-to-be-part-of-a-publishers-day-that-millennials-will-find-hard-to-imagine/
Continue readingToday’s post is over at BookMachine, where I explore what the membership economy – as outlined by Robbie Kellman Baxter in The Extraordinary Business Book Club this week – means for publishers. https://bookmachine.org/2016/11/23/the-membership-economy/
Continue readingToday’s blog is over at BookMachine, and explores what the real value of business books is – for the publisher, and for the author. (And for the reader? That’s a whole different blog…) https://bookmachine.org/2016/11/02/truth-business-books/
Continue readingA BookMachine blog on the three charges Seth Godin levelled at publishers in his interview with me for The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast. https://bookmachine.org/2016/09/30/seth-godins-three-charges-publishers/
Continue readingMight online bookstores one day become passé? The social web is where we share ideas and consume content, and increasingly it’s where we purchase, too. In the Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast this week I talk to Marcus Woodburn, Vice President Digital Products at Ingram Content Group, about Aer.io, their new social selling tool (Ingram was an early […]
Continue readingIt’s a terrible irony of nonfiction publishing that the people with the most interesting things to say are often too busy actually doing their thing to sit down and write a book about it. Business leaders are not natural writers, at least not usually. They’re often great communicators, especially on a conference stage or in […]
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