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Thoughts on books, publicity, and the media from our Cave Henricks staff.
Survey Says…Six Tips for turning research into media coverage

Survey Says…Six Tips for turning research into media coverage

We make it a rule not to write about our own clients on this blog. We want to keep this space as a forum for sharing ideas about book publishing, business books, and publicity at large, and never let it morph into a self-promotional machine. But we are always learning new things through our work […]

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Biggest Change in Books?

Biggest Change in Books?   The Way they Come to Market. In the not so distant past, most of the books you bought either on the shelf of a local bookstore (although these are fast diminishing with the death of Borders this year) or with a click on Amazon, made a fairly similar path to publication.  […]

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Five Quick Questions with Publishing’s Top Leaders: Susan Williams, Executive Editor, Jossey-Bass

In our weekly blog, we’ve been checking in with industry leaders from all facets of the business – editorial to marketing to sales, to find out how the shift to digital platforms, the weakened economy, and the diminishing number of brick and mortar stores is affecting how they do their jobs. This week, we spoke […]

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Changing Minds

It has been said that everyone has at least one book that they are destined to write. I’m not sure I believe that exactly, but I hear an awful lot of people talk about the book they plan to write someday. In practice most people never get to the really hard part of that  process-the […]

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The Power of Pull Launches in New York

John Hagel and John Seely Brown were at the Times Center in New York Monday night launching their just-released book, THE POWER OF PULL (Basic, hardcover.) In a lively discussion led by New York Magazine’s John Heileman, they discussed how their new book moves beyond the mere technological changes in our world, to the serious, […]

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Celebrating Our Own

A couple of years ago, my friend and my colleague Dennis Welch began sending me email missives, chapters of a book he was writing based on a weekly conversation he had with his mother. Funny, heartbreaking, and impossible to put down, I found myself searching my inbox for the latest installment. When one was late, […]

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