We just launched the latest IndieBookMan Show… and I’m pretty proud of it.
This week we are talking about ebooks, and I got to interview Mario Armstrong (one of the nicest people I have ever interviewed!) and Brian Felson of BookBaby – who was also really nice, and is the CEO of BookBaby, which is a [...]

Show #16
The newest IndieBookMan Show is here, and it’s the probably the most informative show we have done to date. This week we are talking about eBooks – and who isn’t talking about eBooks these days?
But how is the eBook revolution effecting readers, writers and publishers? In other words… how is this new [...]

Ok, here is what you do. You print this and post it up by your computer. Anytime you read about ebook publishing, you watch for the statements. When you get bingo, you win!
Truthfully, you would probably fill your card up pretty fast hanging around The IndieBookMan Show and blog… because many of [...]

Think what you will about ebooks and electronic publishing (and it’s getting harder every week to be bearish on it,) people are buying ebooks, and publishers are making money off of them. For the first time ever, ebook sales outstripped hardcover sales last month, and the trend is only going to continue. Someday, [...]

Former pubisher, author, web euntrepreneur and blogger Paul Carr has a great piece this week in his NSWF blog over at TechCrunch. He’s talking about the McMillan/Amazon/iPad tangle-up. His point is that, though the general consensus of the outcome is that it is good for authors, that the reality is that it is [...]

Well Jobs made it known what he had in mind and now it is our turn to talk about the powers and the liabilities of the one-man gadget world. Indie publishers and authors ought to be a bit concerned about the overpowering of the gadget world by the indefatiguable Jobs. Yes, his gadgets are gorgeous [...]

I could not be happier to be included among the writers and supporters of IndieBookMan. Brad and I have indeed been talking up a storm of late and late at night so much so that I do not quite calm down enough to get to sleep. But writers and small business owners suffer similar fates, [...]

Yesterday on the bookstore industry newsletter Shelf Awareness, this remarkable proposal was floated. (My personal response is appended further down in this blogpost.)
A Solution for Capital-Starved Independent BookstoresThe following is a proposal made by Jack McKeown, former president and CEO of the Perseus Books Group and former president and publisher of the Adult Trade Group [...]

Ok, so I don’t have a Nook in hand yet. Unlike the high-flying super famous tech bloggers of which I am pretty envious, I don’t have gadget companies sending me stuff for free in hopes that I will give a 2 thumbs up to millions of faithful readers. And, I’m too poor to [...]

Last night on the Indiebookman radio show, Brad mused about my perspective on eBooks. The answer is that I do not believe printed books are endangered, and I assume there will always be new developments in the distribution of information. I don’t regard eBooks as replacements for physical books, in other words: they will simply [...]