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 [...]

Oh. I forgot to mention yesterday. In case you hadn’t heard. Amazon announced that the Kindle is going international. Except Canada. Sorry Canada – you still have to read your books on paper.

As the publisher of both ebooks—11 to date, with two more just acquired—as well as paperbacks, I think Cantarabooks has made a pretty good showing in the past two and three-quarter years years in the rapidly growing field of electronic publishing. When we started releasing ebooks early in 2007, Amazon had already come out with [...]

Ok, this is I think absolutely the right idea… but the lamest name they could come up with.

Let me start by saying that the name “blook,” as in, “blog/book” has always grated on me. Set aside the excessive layers of contraction from “weblog/book” to “blog/book” to “blook,” it just sounds dumb to me. [...]