The Business of Doing Books
The New Arts of Book Building: Challenges for Authors, Editors and Producers (Part Two)
In part one of this discussion, I discussed how in the word “book,” and in the various ways we hyphenate it, we set the definition and expectation of how we view our work as professionals and how content will be developed. Read More >>
Michael Weinstein's Publishing Panorama
It Was Bound to Happen
As reported in The New York Times last week, a major publisher (Little, Brown) is taking its first title directly to e-book … no print version. It’s a book about immigration by Pete Hamill. Read More >>
Jabin White's Technically Speaking
XML Is Here to Stay, Part Deux (Attack of the Small Publisher)
In my last post, I wrote about—heck, I guaranteed—that XML wasn’t going anywhere. I’m usually not such a big trash talker, but I firmly believe this—mostly because you can use XML to future-proof content, as well as the fact that putting any structured tagging in your content could be leveraged, even if XML goes away. Which it won’t (I know, nice English). Read More >>
Janet Spavlik's The Next Chapter
Confessions of a Twitter Contest Addict: What You Can Learn From My Addiction
Hello, my name is Janet. And I am addicted to Twitter contests.
I swear I haven't always been this way. Sure, I'd entered a contest here and there if the prize was particularly enticing (I really wanted that all-expenses-paid trip to the Super Bowl that one year), but I always was the stereotypical “I never win anything” type. I equated entry forms with lost causes, and therefore, generally avoided them. Why waste my time?
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