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Morgan James to Offer Digital Catalog

Beginning in March, Morgan James Publishing will begin making its catalog available digitally starting with its fall 2010 catalog. Morgan James publisher Rick Frishman said the fall catalog with the full range of Morgan James titles will be made available as a digital download via the web in late March after the Morgan James Author [...]

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Borders Bookstore Faces Bleak Future

Borders Bookstore Faces Bleak Future

With dismal holiday sales, sagging shares, loan deadlines, layoffs and the resignation of its most recent CEO, Ron Marshall, Borders Group Inc. may face pressure from investors to consider a pre-packaged bankruptcy or liquidation, the Deal Pipleine reported on Saturday. The book retailer’s market cap is only about $53 million, slightly more than the $42 [...]

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Apple Debuts iPad and Launches iBooks Store

Apple Debuts iPad and Launches iBooks Store

Apple yesterday introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the [...]

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Morgan James Author Bill Glazer Donates $100,000 to Junior Achievement

Morgan James author Bill Glazer donates $100,000 to Junior Achievement from book sales of bestseller “Outrageous Advertising”!
David Hancock here.  I am reporting LIVE from the OUTRAGEOUS Academy and Workshop giving you a glimpse into the lessons all the attendees are learning from “The King of OUTRAGEOUS Advertising”, and fellow Morgan James author, Bill Glazer, and [...]

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Morgan James Weathers Tough Times

As predicted by Publisher’s Weekly (Against All Odds, March 2, 2009), Morgan James Publishing is thriving in these tough times. Morgan James reports a 52% increase in overall books sales through retail channels for year end 2009 over 2008 and a 12% increase in titles released during the same period.
Morgan James founder David Hancock touted [...]

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Morgan James Best Books of 2009

Morgan James Best Books of 2009

Morgan James Publishing, a leading provider of books from entrepreneurs with vital information, inspiration and guidance readers need to be successful. A division of Morgan James, LLC, Morgan James Publishing, The Entrepreneurial Publisher™, is recognized by NASDAQ as one of the world’s most prestigious businesses and is reported as being the future of publishing.
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B&N Demos the Nook

Barnes & Noble expects to be offering live demonstrations of its Nook in its stores within a few weeks, according to industry insiders. The demos will be part of the overall in-store marketing campaign that B&N is planning for its new e-reader. The Nook has been out-of-stock for almost a week and consumers who order [...]

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AP News: Top 2 booksellers report losses, their shares fall

AP News: Top 2 booksellers report losses, their shares fall

Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc., the nation’s two largest brick-and-mortar book sellers, both posted quarterly losses Tuesday and forecast a difficult holiday season, saying competition from discount chains and online retailers is stiffening.
Barnes & Noble, the larger of the two, also cut its forecast for annual profit, and shares of both retailers [...]

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There’s No Gift Like A Home For The Holidays

There’s No Gift Like A Home For The Holidays

Running out of gift ideas for the people you love? Tired of the commercialization of the Christmas season?
Visit the Morgan James Builds with Habitat for Humanity site to help build a home for a family who needs one — on behalf of your loved ones!
Your purchase of our SHARE (Share Habitat’s Affordable Re-housing Efforts) certificates [...]

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Why One Equals Four

As an author, you are an entrepreneur. Every book you write is a separate enterprise, a business with its own fate and its own reckoning that balances income against expenditures.
Why One Equals Four
Every business is four businesses:

An enterprise that creates a product or service
A marketing business that sells what it produces
A service business that understands [...]

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The Entrepreneurial Author’s Edge

The Entrepreneurial Author’s Edge

Fortunately, as an entrepreneurial author, you’ve got an edge. This edge keeps the fires of your passion burning brightly. It gives you a decided advantage over the authors who preceded you because it helps you avoid their mistakes and built upon their successes. It is, without question, the way of the [...]

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Another Fill In The Blank Pitch Formula

Fill in the blank Pitch Formula

As I promised in my last tip, here’s another great fill-in-the-blank formula you can use to create a show pitch that is guaranteed to grab a producer’s attention virtually every time … (Please share this with anyone it might help)
* Pitch Formula:  ”How __________ hurts your __________ without you knowing it”
And here’s a couple [...]

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Creativity

So everyone’s an entrepreneur, and everyone has got a book, a media kit, and a Web site. What’s going to keep you from disappearing in the perpetual onslaught of competing books and media?
Your creativity.
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
The creativity you bring to everything you do will be essential [...]

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Mark Victor Hansen Foundation 1st Annual Readers’ Choice Awards

Mark Victor Hansen Foundation 1st Annual Readers’ Choice Awards

ENTER YOUR BOOK TODAY!  NOW MORE THAN $20,000 in CASH and PRIZES!

Gain national exposure for your book!  Catch the attention of prospective editors, media personalities, and readers!
The national Reader’s Choice Awards was initiated as an opportunity to allow individual readers to present their own opinions regarding their favorite authors and books.  The Readers’ Choice Awards [...]

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Viewing Publishers as Partners

Close Relationship with Your Publisher

The savvy Entrepreneurial Author views a publisher as a partner, for that in essence is what they are. Each benefits from the actions of the other. Each profits from the excellence of the other.
Once you realize that your publisher is actually your partner in the process, you will want to [...]