When you’re ranting about the evils of “Big Publishing”, it helps to remember that for every My Life Outside the…
Author: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Sometimes loud, formerly poet, always opinionated. He/Him.
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is primarily a marketer by day, but he's worn many other hats over the years. This is his personal website reflecting his personal thoughts and opinions, some of which may have evolved over time. YMMV.
Shout-Outs: Lanier, Wendig and the Robots
“The combination of hive mind and advertising has resulted in a new kind of social contract. The basic idea of…
A Quick Note on the Fabled “iPod Moment”
There are millions of books on amazon.com, and on average each will sell around 500 copies a year. The average…
“E” is for Experiment (Not eBooks)
Much like TV, which quickly evolved from simply broadcasting radio programs into its own unique medium, there’s a line where something stops being a book and becomes…something else entirely — a completely new medium with its own rules, pros and cons. We’re not there yet, though.
Playing with the Kindle, Playing with the Future
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed…
It’s Hard Out Here for a Pragmatic Optimist
“Publishing was never a business based on Wharton standards. It was a rich boy’s hobby.” –Steve Wasserman (Kneerim & Williams)…
New Year’s Publishing Predictions, Resolutions
I’m not usually one for making predictions — the only thing I hate more than gurus and pundits are self-proclaimed…