If I knew anything about publicity I would start a business in Toronto that placed book authors in major corporations during lunch hour. Google has authors speak at their offices and they are generous enough to record them, but I bet other companies would like authors to drop in for an afternoon to share ideas, [...]
Google’s mission is to index the world’s information. Facebook’s mission is to index the world’s population. In five years which will be better positioned to sell books? Hands down — Facebook. As the industry drags its heels on standardizing on ePUB, you have to wonder if it will be any quicker socializing its product. I [...]
When the New York Times’ Nick Bilton asked where R&D work was happening in the book publishing trade, I understood that to be a rhetorical question. O’Reilly has a lab of course but I still thought that was provocative because the obvious answer was nowhere. My apologies to Jeremy Ettinghausen. Until this morning I was [...]
At the beginning of the month — on the same day as Levar Burton — the owner of Indigo/Chapters Heather Reisman was featured on CBC’s The Hour. At the time I really had nothing to say about this appearance. I still don’t but from the looks of the view count on youtube not many people [...]