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Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
We’ve reached the final installment in my publishing forecast blogs. As a reminder, we’ve explored the following book delivery methods:
The double-figure growth of audiobooks.
The potential of using the subscription model with books.
The new …
. Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
In two recent posts, I looked at a couple of potential publishing trends. You can read the first one, regarding the rise in audiobooks, here. The second publishing forecast post, regarding book subscriptions, can …
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Platform! Platform! Platform! It’s all we ever hear these days. You can’t get published if your platform isn’t strong enough. Do you have good endorsements? Have you put together a marketing plan? These items can be so …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
I’m just finishing up my summer vacation. Or I should say, staycation. My daughter and grandson came to visit for two weeks and we decided to stay put and do as many local travels as we could …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Want to know how to make a CBA literary agent squirm? Wait until he or she is on a panel at a popular writing conference and ask, “What’s the best book you’ve read recently?” Surely that …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Curated books. That’s how we discover books we love. Let me explain.
In this day, discoverability of books is the issue everyone in the publishing community is discussing. With the avalanche of books available today from self-pub …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
As has become my tradition, I’m starting 2018 by recounting my favorite reading experiences from 2017. (That doesn’t mean these books were released in 2017, by the way.)
Oh, and I have an announcement at the …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Recently I watched a TV interview with Ann Patchett and Daniel Pink on their favorite books of 2017. You can read the interview or watch it here.
I enjoyed the entire book-review approach to the …
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
A couple of years ago I got one of my favorite kinds of calls. It was an offer to let me go through the library of a young pastor who died in 1963. His widow was preparing …
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Recently I read an article in Publishers Weekly about a panel held at BookExpo that discussed how a bookstore, especially an independent store, should respond to books that might offend their political or moral principles.
This …
