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Will the Book Survive?
By David Hancock on July 29th, 2010

Will the Book Survive?

Amidst all the doom and gloom of the book publishing industry, the CEO of Ingram Book Company, Skip Prichard, says books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading.
The Kindle. The iPad. The Nook. Not to mention at least thirty other reading devices or Google [...]

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By David Hancock on July 26th, 2010

Book Bloggers You Should Know

PW: Newspapers may be continuing to cut their book coverage, but the Internet is home to an ever-expanding hive of blogs about books. Some 250 book bloggers attended the first-ever Book Blogger Convention in May, an event held at Manhattan’s Javits Center the day after BEA ended. Sponsorships from major New York houses and lots of [...]

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By David Hancock on July 23rd, 2010

Agency Stirs a Fuss in eBook Publishing Venture

The literary agent Andrew Wylie announced on Wednesday that he had started his own publishing venture and would produce e-book editions available exclusively on Amazon.com for 20 titles, including those by Philip Roth and Vladimir Nabokov.
Now Random House, which had previously staked a claim for the e-book rights to most of those books, has issued a forceful [...]

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By David Hancock on July 19th, 2010

iBooks Gets Huge Update

Oh boy, isn’t today just filled with updating goodness? Grab yourselves a cuppa very chilly iced tea and sit back and relax as iTunes basically upgrades your whole life. In addition to iTunes 9.2.1, iBooks is also announcing an update [iTunes link]. This version will enable you to open and read PDF documents from Mail and [...]

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By David Hancock on July 19th, 2010

Electronic reading devices are transforming the concept of a book – latimes.com

Digital tools advance beyond screens that talk and play videos, connecting readers to authors and online fan communities.
As electronic reading devices evolve and proliferate, books are increasingly able to talk to readers, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers. [...]

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By David Hancock on July 14th, 2010

The Entrepreneurial Author University (The EAU)

Do you want to sell more of your books when they are published?
Do you want to sell them as soon as your book hits the market?
Do you want to hit the bestseller lists?
The Entrepreneurial Author University’s Author Success Program is the missing link!   In process of book publishing countless writers, agents and other top publishing [...]

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By David Hancock on July 12th, 2010

The Easiest Time To Get Publicity

Want more free publicity by being written-up in top magazines, newspapers and websites?
Want to be interviewed on radio/TV shows?
If so, this new free service makes it easy:
The Reporter Connection
Join now because in addition to free daily media leads you’ll also be entered into a drawing to win prizes including a trip to New York to [...]

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By David Hancock on July 12th, 2010

Mystery Solved

Why People Fail
A series of No Bull articles from Executive Publisher Dan Kennedy.

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” said Sherlock Holmes.
You are presumably reading this because you are intrigued – for self-interest, not just academic exercise – with the mysteries of achievement and success. I have spent more than 30 [...]

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By David Hancock on July 07th, 2010

Joining with Kobo, Borders Launches its E-Bookstore Today

PW: Today’s the day. Citing a goal to claim 17% of the e-book market by next summer, the Borders Group, in conjunction with e-book retailer Kobo, is launching its own e-bookstore today, offering more than a 1 million free and for-pay titles along with a selection of digital reading devices.
The Borders e-bookstore will offer e-books in [...]

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By David Hancock on July 06th, 2010

Sony Quietly Lowers E-Reader Prices

PW: Despite a Sony spokesperson’s claim a week ago that there would be no further price announcements, Sony quietly dropped the prices on all three of its e-reading devices over the July 4 weekend. The wi-fi enabled Daily Edition drops from $349 to $299; the Touch Edition drops from $199 to $169; and the Pocket Edition, formerly [...]

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By David Hancock on July 02nd, 2010

Books-A-Million Launches E-Bookstore

PW: Books-A-Million executives had promised to enter the e-book market this summer and the retailer has quietly launched an e-bookstore and digital audio site at booksamillion.com. To help promote the site, the company is holding a contest this month in which anyone who buys an e-book will be automatically entered into a contest to win [...]

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By David Hancock on June 17th, 2010

The 5 biggest myths about Generation Y

In 401 BC Socrates famously described the youth of his day as insolent upstarts who didn’t know their place and had little regard for tradition or manners. It seems that very little has changed! In our modern day, the media are quick to tell us that young people today are much the same as they were in Socrates’ day!

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By David Hancock on June 14th, 2010

Want to get paid to give speeches?

Suppose you could make $2,500.00 to $10,000.00 or more simply by giving a 90-minute speech based on your book (or expertise if you don’t have your book finished yet).
Would you be interested?
If so, join my friend Steve Harrison of Radio-TV Interview Report (RTIR) for a free telephone seminar on Thursday, June 17th on which you’ll [...]

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By David Hancock on June 11th, 2010

What Might Be Drawn Out, Not What More Can We Stuff In

Why People Fail
A series of No Bull articles from Executive Publisher Dan Kennedy.

There is an old joke about the Farm Bureau agent trying to convince the grizzled farmer to attend the upcoming educational conference being put on by the Bureau. The resistant farmer says: “Aw, no need. I ain’t usin’ half of what I [...]

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By David Hancock on May 18th, 2010

David Hancock to present at IBPA’s Publishing University

David Hancock to present at IBPA’s Publishing University on May 24-25—the only educational conference created BY publishers FOR publishers

David Hancock, Founder of Morgan James, will be one of the industry experts slated to appear at IBPA’s Publishing University, now in its third decade of offering the best in publishing education. Speaking in the session [...]

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