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Five Quick Questions With Publishing’s Top Leaders: Gloria McDonough-Taub

February 5, 2011 | Dennis Welch

Gloria McDonough-Taub is Editor of Blogs at CNBC.com and the author of the CNBC.com blog, Bullish On Books. She reviews the (numerous) books that come in to CNBC and works with the shows to decide which author has a good enough story to be featured on the website or on air. Gloria is at the […]

Digital and social media top authors’ lists

January 5, 2011 | Barbara Henricks

Monday I offered up my predictions for publishing in 2011. Today, we’ve turned to some of our authors for their opinions. Digital issues were clearly their top priority. Here’s what they had to say: “I predict that the importance of social media for authors and books will grow by an order of magnitude. The flow […]

2011: A Brave New World of Words

January 4, 2011 | Barbara Henricks

2011: The Brave New World of the Written Word I have never been one to make New Year’s resolutions. They tend to be forgotten or fall flat or just make my gym really overcrowded in January. But I do make predictions for myself of where I envision the year taking me. From a professional standpoint, […]

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December 13, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

I will resist the urge to say that it’s never been tougher to get attention in the media, although it is true, as media fractures, merges and, to some extent, dwindles. In reality, though, it’s always been tough. I was a journalist 20 years ago, and when in the producing studios chasing news, we were […]

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December 8, 2010 | Rusty Shelton

Barbara, Dennis and I spent the week trading ideas with some of business book publishing’s brightest stars in Milwaukee at the 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow. We watched Sally Hogshead convince Jack Covert to take a shot of Jagermeister before noon, played Personality Poker and were reminded of how wonderful Austin, TX is in the winter […]

Books We’re Thankful For

November 22, 2010 | Kaila Nickel

We’re only a few days away from Thanksgiving (can you believe it?), and we have quite a bit to be thankful for this year: we’ve celebrated six books hitting or remaining on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and/or USA Today bestseller lists in 2010, we’ve welcomed two new (wonderful) people to our staff […]

Five Quick Questions With Publishing’s Top Leaders: Ben Loehnen

November 17, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

Ben Loehnen, Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, has worked on a number of successful business titles, including Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath, The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox and What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis. We asked him about the working relationship between author and […]

Working with Your Editor

November 15, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

A few years ago I was fortunate enough to hear Larry Kirshbaum, formerly the Publisher of Warner Books and now an agent, discuss the process of publishing. The entire crowd of authors in attendance noticeably moved forward in their chairs when he boldly urged everyone to “become the CEO of your own book.” His reasoning […]

What Makes a Great Business Book?

November 10, 2010 | Kaila Nickel

Fall is typically a hectic time for those of us in the publishing world. This year is certainly no exception. We’ve attended book festivals, gone through our acquisitions process for our spring 2011 books, finished our work on our summer books, begun work on our fall titles, and all while balancing personal and professional time […]

Five Quick Questions with Publishing’s Top Leaders: Hardy Green

October 25, 2010 | Barbara Henricks

After a long stint as book review editor at BusinessWeek, Hardy Green has left the magazine world. He’s now posting on his own site and recently completed his second book, The Company Town. We checked in with Hardy for his thoughts on the changing face of the media. His perspective, from all sides of the […]

2011: A Brave New World of Words

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