From the monthly archives: November 2009

Patricia Smith on-page and still way better than you.

By On November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal
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50 Things Publishers Shouldn’t Do If every publisher followed this one rule, the industry would be in far better shape than it is today.

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Don’t publish books you aren’t interested in promoting.

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eBooks: The False Dilemma | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez Pablo Defendini (@pablod) nails it in the comments section.

By On November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

The “print is dead” meme is indicative of short-sighted, reductionist thinking, and usually denotes a lack of nuanced understanding of how people interact with books on a fundamental level.

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eBooks: The False Dilemma

By On November 30, 2009 · 36 Comments · In Publishing

People will continue to read printed books for a long time, just as some people still watch movies on VHS. But the printed book will be “dead” in a few short years in the sense that the bulk of the adoption curve, the pragmatic majority, will have moved on.

–Arvind Narayanan, “The death [...]

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Oprah’s Chicago School of Economics – Lane Wallace An insightful take on Oprah’s success and why “What Would Oprah Do?” is a question every business leader should ask themselves. Her brand of entrepreneurship is one that’s built on authenticity, first and foremost, and as such, isn’t suited for “scale”, “synergy”, or “shareholder value”.And that’s why it’s worked.

By On November 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

Oprah’s success isn’t just the sum of her strategies. The engine that not only drove those particular strategies, but also made them successful, was a deep sense of identity, authenticity, and purpose that can’t be imitated or crafted through method.

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