Subtlety is out. Bloomberg Businessweek’s January 25th cover shows a book engulfed in flames. The book’s title? “Amazon Wants to Burn the Book Business.” A towering pile of books dominates the front page of Sunday’s NYT Business Section. The pile starts well below the fold (print edition), breaks through the section header at the top [...]
Hampton, VA – One of the nation’s leading publishers is taking the helm of the National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence (NCPCV), based in Hampton, and San Jose, CA. The National Center for the Prevention of Community Violence is the nonprofit organization founded by national gang consultant Bobby Kipper in 2010 to advance [...]
Powell’s Books, one of the country’s largest and most successful bookstores, will launch its Espresso Book Machine in March at its City of Books flagship store location in Portland, Ore. “We are excited to offer this service to our customers, expanding our vast inventory at the City of Books location from one million volumes [...]
Barnes & Noble May Spin Off Nook Business. Barnes & Noble could be a very different company one year from now. Following a report in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal that B&N is looking to sell Sterling Publishing (a process that a source told PW “is moving along”), the company disclosed Thursday morning that it is considering spinning off its [...]
Guerrilla Marketing Congratulates Jay Conrad Levinson. Jay Conrad Levinson is the father of the best-selling marketing series in history, “Guerrilla Marketing”. Guerrilla Marketing has swiftly blossomed into a series of books, audiotapes, videotapes, an award-winning CD-ROM, a newsletter, a consulting organization, an Internet website, and a way for individuals to spend less, get more, and [...]
Guerrilla Marketing Job Escape Plan, by Guerrilla Marketing founder Jay Conrad Levinson and serial entrepreneur Andrew Neitlich, is like no other book about starting a business. It isolates the key battles every would-be entrepreneur must fight in order to start a business with minimal risk and maximum upside. The battles include: overcoming fear, finding the right idea, [...]
Google eBooks has launched an affiliates program that will enable publishers, bloggers, retailers and websites to link to Google eBooks and receive a commission for referring visitors to their sites to Google eBooks to buy books. The Google Afiliates Network was launched as a beta program at the end of 2010, teaming with social reading [...]
Here’s the New York Times‘ tearsheet, pre-announcing our #1 bestseller status. They officially announceThe Millionaire Messenger as the #1 New York Times bestseller (paperback how-to) on their website this weekend, then in print on the 27th. Also, here’s the link to the USA Today bestseller list. Now – Post a video review of The Millionaire Messenger on Youtube or Facebook, [...]
Be sure to watch the show and catch Morgan James author James Malinchak, author of How I Became A Big Money Speaker And How You Can Too!: The 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Adding Public Speaking to Your Current Business! as he is one of the Secret Millionaires! Secret Millionaire – ABC.com.
Kindle e-books are about to become more social. They will also be getting a small change that will make many Kindle owners rejoice: page numbers. Amazon.com announced the new features Monday in a company blog post, and said they would be included in an upcoming software upgrade. Until now, Amazon’s e-books have had no page numbers, [...]
In an acknowledgment of the growing sales and influence of digital publishing, The New York Times said on Wednesday that it would publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year. The lists will be compiled from weekly data from publishers, chain bookstores, independent booksellers and online retailers, among other sources. Since [...]
Apple has begun selling spiffy iBookstore gift cards at its retail stores and at retail partners like Target, where iTunes gift cards have long been available,reports MacRumors. The cards are available in $25 and $50 denominations. Clearly Apple is hoping to cash in on the holiday gift-giving season with its newest e-commerce venture. Apple Now [...]
By Harold McGraw III and Philip Ruppel Today, it is not uncommon to hear predictions that the names of the great publishing houses will soon fall from the covers of books to the footnotes of self-published history tomes. Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking this way based on headlines on the e-reading revolution. First, Amazon [...]
The $99 price point on e-readers has finally, officially been reached! Beware the crowds on the street rushing to Borders to adopt the habit of digital reading. The Borders group reduced the price of the two e-readers it sells–the Kobo and Aluratek e-readers–to $129 and $99 respectively. No doubt Borders hopes to make up for [...]