Lisa Gabriele wants some VC money to market her book.
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I just noticed Annick Press has a new website design — I don’t visit them often so I am not sure how recent the update is but I think it is fantastic and is a great reflection of what they are about.
As more houses — particularly the smaller ones — redo their sites, are they [...]
Last November I spotted a review at the National Post for Wanda St. Hilaire’s The Cuban Chronicles: A True Tale of Rascals, Rogues and Romance. A travel memoir about being seduced by Latin men isn’t my thing but there was one curious thing about it that made me pay attention — it was self-published. At [...]
Two perspectives below that reminded me how far apart bookstores’ and publishers’ interests are:
“Retailers need to see book returns as failures. Returning for credit is not an opportunity.” Track. Analyze. Improve.
“Publishers need to stop playing the pimp.” They are not well positioned to tell retailers how much stock they need where and when.
These bon-mots were [...]