Our friend Liz Dubelman has a very interesting article on Huff Post about book trailers… Book Trailers and Future of Publishing Five years ago, when the Internet was still sluggish, I had an idea for story-telling that would be unique to the medium, such as it was: take the voice of an author reading his [...]

AN EXPLANATION. We didn’t really know what to expect when the fur-covered Wild Things landed in our office. Sure, we had seen various swatches of fur sent as sample materials, but how it would all come together was still anyone’s guess. But when we cracked open that first box, we were ecstatic. Like kids on [...]

Here’s a quick run down of the book related news that I fancy this week: Solar-powered E-book Readers: “In the quickly evolving world of e-book readers, perhaps it’s a good idea to wait a few months before plunking down your credit card on something that could become an antique in less than a year. We’ve [...]

Would you buy that book if it was only $4.00?

October 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Do we need $4.00 books? Have books become an expensive speciality, like caviar or hybrid cars? Mark Coker of Smashwords thinks so, and he thinks that ebooks are the saving grace economically for publishers and authors… Why We Need $4.00 Booksby Mark Coker (Huffington Post) The day has come for publishers to offer a $4.00 [...]

The Red Book

October 1, 2009 | Comments Off

There is nothing I love more than when an unknown or lost book is finally discovered, years later, in a secret vault in a foreign country – especially when that book is gorgeous in red leather with a spine etched in gold and is filled with esoteric visions of gods and devils – and the [...]