More books are being published all the time. Every year trumps the one before. You may have read that at the Digital World conference this week, speaker David Houle said that more books were published last week than in all of 1950. That’s a nice headline-grabbing remark… Read more   

Tablets and e-readers are great but without content they’re not worth much. Barnes & Noble has spent a great deal of effort in promoting its Nook e-reader, and even devotes a lot of in-store floor space to Nook boutiques. But, as Jim Hilt, vice president of e-books at Barnes &… Read more   

As part of the survey for the book, Business Networking And Sex (not what you think), my co-authors and I asked several questions that weren’t used in the final manuscript. The survey was open to the public and was conducted with over 12,000 business people from every populated continent in… Read more   

News organizations used to announce with great fanfare that they’d teamed up with publishing houses to offer nonfiction books related to the work of their reporters. Now news organizations are doing the publishing themselves. The latest comes from NBC News, which has begun a new electronic imprint, Read more   

Will Apple’s new textbook finally make it a done deal that textbooks can be easily read, used, studied (even notated) on tablets? Maybe not. But things are changing quickly. Textbooks are a kind of Everest for publishers: they represent an area of publishing that can be difficult to scale. But… Read more   

Not all experts know everything. Case in point: My good friend Greg Habstritt just spent some personal time with legendary expert direct-marketer Dan Kennedy. Dan Kennedy is a brilliant no-BS entrepreneur for whom I have immense respect. But. But: I have to say the advice he gave Greg is wrong.… Read more   

No matter how you intend to try to publish your book you should craft a proposal for it. This means that if you’re planning to self-publish electronically, or to self-publish on demand, or to attempt to sell your book to a traditional publisher, you should nevertheless do that resolutely old-fashioned… Read more   

You may recall that old New Yorker cartoon by P. Steiner that shows a hound of some sort in front of a computer, apparently on some sort of dating site, saying to his canine buddy, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The same may be said about authors:… Read more   

A seasoned author is reaping the rewards of self-publishing. J.A. Konrath, a thriller writer, has said on his blog, www.jakonroth.blogspot.com, that he’s earned $100,000 in the last three weeks from his self-published books. Konrath has been published by what he calls “legacy publishers” and, like many authors who… Read more   

Many people assume that referral groups and other networking organizations are only for those who are young, new to business, and hungry to grow their businesses. Studies, however, don’t support that line of thinking. If fact, it has actually been shown that the ages of referral-group members range from those… Read more