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Blog / News & Opinion
Kindle packaging
By Porchlight
All opinions on Kindle aside, have you seen its packaging? Pretty spiffy. * Image from Bad Banana Blog.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Following up on predictions from publishers
By Porchlight
It's always interesting to go back and see what the publishing community predicted would do well in a given season. Last May, Publishers Weekly had a great piece about trends in business book publishing. Todd blogged about it in June.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2007
By Porchlight
With 66 bookstores in airports all over North America, you may know Hudson Booksellers from your travels. They have now decided that it is time to help busy travelers select the books they sell, announcing their picks of the best books of 2007. It's a pretty long list, with selections in the fields of fiction, non-fiction, children's, and--aha!
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Demystifying the Best-Seller List
By Porchlight
The Best-Seller List is one of the most fascinating and confusing aspects of the book publishing industry. Almost every time we work with a business book author, a conversation comes up about what being on the list means, and how a book can "hit" it. Having a best-seller can really make an author's success and drive future sales of the book, and future sales of future books.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Name your own Big Idea Book.
By Porchlight
This month's issue of Wired had an activity that we, and business book authors and industry folks, got a kick out of. It was concocting a best selling book using Wired's "Patent-Pending Big Idea Book Generator. " With this patent-pending Big Idea Book GeneratorTM, we provide the title, subtitle, and premise.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Financial Times Asks "What Is Best Business Book of All Time?"
By Porchlight
In conjunction with their Business Book of The Year Award, The Financial Times is asking the question: "What is the best book of all time? " They solicited suggestions from a wide variety of business executives, including GE's Jeff Immelt and Ebay's Meg Whitman. The editorial staff then created a short list using the same criterea as their yearly awards.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Greenspan Starts Strong
By Porchlight
Publisher's Lunch reports today that Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence had sales of 128,000 copies in its opening week, according to Neilsen's Bookscan. That is a great start for the book, but people will be watching closely to see if the book can keeping that momentum into the next three or four weeks.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Do It Wrong Quickly - Marketing in the Age of the Web
By Porchlight
A little background. . .
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Blog / News & Opinion
More on the digital vs. paper debate...
By Porchlight
We often get into philosophical debates here on everything from what constitutes a sport to the evolution of the book industry. Many times, these conversations are conducted through a string of emails. Rebecca introduced you to one debate.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
A big push for digital books? Not quite yet...
By Porchlight
There was an article in last week's issue of BusinessWeek called "Amazon Does Downloads, Sort of: Why its push into digital delivery of books, movies, and music seems halfhearted. " Here at 800-CEO-READ, there is an ongoing discussion about, you guessed it, whether digital will eventually take over the book industry and books as we know them will go away. We all agree that the physical book will never go away - it's too bound up in our culture, and it's still the most portable way of carrying ideas around with us, not to mention the fact that experts overwhelmingly agree that reading printed matter is easier on the eye than reading a screen.
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