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 [...]

Oh boy, this would make like at AuthorsBookshop.com so much easier. Nearly instantly digitizing every indie book on the shelf… that would be awesome.
Sorry the video is too wide for the column!

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 [...]

Last show we covered “The Street Sell,” talking with Christopher Herz about street selling. This week, we move from the street and take it on the road.
Deborah Emin spent a lot of time on the road in the midwest. As she passed through all the small towns strung along the highway, she began to feel [...]

Im still thinking about the iPad.
I’m still thinking about it.
So many reasons to be underwhelmed, from a geek perspective. So many reasons to be concerned, from a publishers perspective (Deborah has already covered that wonderfully).
And yet, and yet.
Gall dern it if I still don’t want one of the damn things.
What am I supposed to [...]

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 [...]

Well, today is the day. Apple is announcing their “latest new product,” highly expected to be the new Apple Tablet which will be called… who knows?
This may very well be (probably will be (let’s just face it, will be)) a game-changer in the electronic book world. I gotta say, I predicted it months [...]

The Sagging: Spirits & Skin. Poetry by Jason FiskPropaganda Press, 2009
The Sagging: Spirits & Skin sings eloquent tales of loss and the big truths that are learned within small pieces of emptiness. Through these poems, Fisk lurks like a quiet voyeur into the dirt-smeared windows of a embattled collection of naked and lonely souls. There [...]

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 [...]