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Reflections on, Takeaways from #eBookSummit

By On December 17, 2009 · 11 Comments · In Publishing

“I suppose we could sum up this entire two-day conference under the headline ‘too early to tell.’”

–Steve Wasserman (Kneerim & Williams)

I attended MediaBistro’s eBook Summit this week and Wasserman’s summation is perfect; consumer book publishing is smack in the middle of the digital transition, and solid answers about how [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVMnmTFxAjA “This is how easy it is to share content with frien

By On December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVMnmTFxAjA

“This is how easy it is to share content with friends.” Print FTW!

Love the Apple-esque background music. Well-played, Sun.

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The Rick Moody Twitter Saga: What Are We All Doing Here? Twitter is valuable, or a complete waste of time, purely based on who you choose to follow and what you’re looking to get out of it. I recommend liberal use of the unfollow button to optimize the signal:noise ratio in your stream. YMMV.

By On December 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

So much of the dialog that happens on Twitter and on the literary blogs feels masturbatory to me. It’s the same couple hundred people talking about the same issues to the same audience.

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Are Publishers Too White to Survive? Who Cares!

By On October 9, 2009 · 10 Comments · In Marketing, Publishing

A recent meeting with two Caucasian well-respected literary agent friends of mine cemented that concern when one announced, “We’re all the same, [people the publishing industry]. We’re all white, we’re all over-educated, Ivy-leaguers, many of whom are trust fund babies.”

Jeff Rivera, Declining Book Sales?

WTF? Seriously?

This is apparently going to be [...]

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Four Publishing Lessons Learned in the Garden

By On August 13, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Personal, Publishing

“The gardener’s work is never at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits….”
–John Evelyn, Kalendarium Hortense, 1706

Winter in the Northeast can make Spring [...]

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