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Thoughts on books, publicity, and the media from our Cave Henricks staff.

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

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 […]

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Five Quick Questions With Publishing’s Top Leaders: Jack Covert

The way we buy books is changing along with everything else in the publishing world.  To get a better feel for how the self publishing and the digital world are impacting consumers of virtual books, Barbara Henricks had a brief conversation with Jack Covert, President and Founder of 800-CEO-READ. For over 25 years, 800-CEO-READ has […]

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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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800-CEO-READ 2009 Business Book Awards

Today 800-CEO-READ announced the winners of their 2009 Business Book Awards, which highlights its top business book of the year along with winners and nominees in a number of categories including Leadership, Current Interest and Finance & Economics. TOO BIG TO FAIL by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking) won Business Book of the Year and we’re […]

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Book success even sweeter in tough times

The publishing and media worlds have had a tough year. With magazines folding, newspapers dying or going digital and staff cuts plaguing nearly every industry, it feels there has been little to celebrate. But while we watch our industry undergoing what is clearly a game-changing shift pushed by technological and digital innovation, watching an old […]

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Big Week for Harry Dent and THE GREAT DEPRESSION AHEAD

It was a big week for author and economist Harry S. Dent and his new book THE GREAT DEPRESSION AHEAD. He was all over the FOX and FOX Business channels with interviews on The Glenn Beck Show, America’s Newsroom and Cavuto. While his belief that America is headed into an even further economic slump isn’t […]

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Tech Guru Dances with Timing Before and After Book’s Release

When I met first met Roger McNamee, I was working with him to promote his book, The New Normal, which Portfolio published in 2004. Part big-time fund manager, part rock star (well, lead guitarist in his own band), former business manager for The Grateful Dead, and part high-tech geek who carried half a dozen gadgets […]

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Business Books provide “practical magic” to PR Firm

This time last year, I wasn’t baking cookies, shopping for holiday gifts or doing anything remotely holiday related. I was getting ready for the challenge of my life — launching my own firm. I would love to be able to claim that the minute I walked away from a steady paycheck and a job I’d […]

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