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Hot Trend in Books: Less is More
Photo Credit: Stack of Thin Flexicover Books On Reflective Table, by Horia Varlan TechJournal reports that a hot book publishing trend today is short books – “so short that in the past no...
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Crowdsourcing the Classics: Original Cover Art
Image Credit: Frankenstein, illustrated by Elena Ospina, for Recovering The Classics Fast Company Co.DESIGN contributor Mark Wilson writes about Recovering the Classics, a joint project by the Creative...
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The Dark Side of E-Books
Photo Credit: The Old Book Exchange by Liz West Gartner’s Andrea Di Maio writes a really great sentence in The Dark Side Of E-Books. Mr. Di Maio discusses the inevitable consequences of e-books...
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Self-Publishing My First Book: Lessons Learned
A valuable tool in the consulting world is the lessons-learned analysis after a project has been completed. It allows those who have been through the experience to share what worked – and what did not...
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The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Shortlist for 2013 Business Book of the...
The shortlist for the ninth annual Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award has been published. “The award aims to identify the book providing the most compelling and enjoyable...
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Leadership Books Worth Checking Out in 2014
The Washington Post’s Jena McGregor provides leadership book titles, scanned from publishers’ lists, that are worth looking out for in 2014. Here they are: Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs...
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Ten Bold Predictions for Ebooks and Digital Publishing in 2014
Digital Book World’s (DBW) Jeremy Greenfield writes about “gathering publishing experts to predict what extraordinary events are to come in book publishing in 2014.” In a recent DBW post he selects the...
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Nobel Prize Winner Urges Scientists to Publish in Open Access Journals – not...
An interesting mention in Information Today’s Open Access Roundup, by Abby Clobridge, focuses on the open access (OA) movement in academia. The section, “Nobel Prize Winner Boycotts Non-OA Journals,”...
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Co-Authoring a New Book on Supply Market Intelligence
It has been way too long since I have posted on my blog – but there is a good reason for the lapse. I have had the fortune of writing a book with Kelly Barner, co-owner of Buyers Meeting Point, and the...
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Business Book Trend: Purpose
The editors at Soundview Executive Book Summaries have a knack for identifying the latest business trends by the book topics that are being published. Lately, there has been an increase in books on the...
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Current Kirkus Literary Prize Nominees for Business-Related Titles
Kirkus Reviews, a respected literary critique publication, recently started offering the Kirkus Prize, which is “a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young...
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U.S. Publishing Industry’s Annual Survey Results: Audio Up, eBooks Decline,...
Photo by Lou Levit via Unsplash Association of American Publishers (AAP) StatShot Annual survey provides insight into sales and volume data collected for categories that include trade...
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International Open Access Week is Oct. 24 – 30
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or...
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Ebook Friendly: 25 Sources of Free Public Domain Books
Digital Public Library of America Ebook Friendly’s Piotr Kowalczyk provides an updated list of sites that offer free public domain books in electronic and audio format. Piotr writes: Every year new...
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