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Publishing World Pulses with News
Feels to me like the publishing industry, like businesses everywhere, is looking for new ways to stay vital and grow in the economic downturn. Of note this week: *A month after shutting an entire division, on Thursday HarperCollins rolled out a new imprint. It Books will publish 21 hardcover and paperback titles this year. The […]
Partying Like Times are Good
Last week, while the temperatures were dropping and bad economic news filled the headlines, it seemed, oddly enough, no better time to host a book party! Sara and I were thrilled to be at the party of the New York book launch for THE 100 BEST BUSINESS BOOKS OF ALL TIME: What They Say, Why […]
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 […]
THE POWER OF WHO author Bob Beaudine on The Today Show
THE POWER OF WHO author Bob Beaudine proved how being timely gets your air time this morning with an appearance on NBC-TVs “The Today Show.” Beaudine, the top executive sports recruiter in the country, suggests we throw out old notions of “networking” to get a job and instead, call on our “WHO” — a circle […]
New Year, New Rules?
The new year may be bringing new rules in the land of PR. Or, they may just be the same rules, redefined, for the digital age. On December 17, Stephen Baker posted a piece called “Freak Out– Twitter Infected by PR” on Blogspotting, his BusinessWeek.com blog, that proclaimed, “It became clear to me in my […]
Thankful for Teamwork this Thanksgiving
It’s been a tough week for publishing, along with the rest of the nation. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers of literary giants such as Philip Roth and J.R. Tolkien, announced that it has put a freeze on acquiring new titles, an extreme move that has sent shock waves through an industry already battling weak sales report […]
Best Selling Christian Books
If books and their ideas are about influence and making a difference, then sales must matter, right?Books like Rick Warren‘s The Purpose Driven Life and Joel Osteen‘s Your Best Life Now are revered in the Christian market. There is a magical quality about them, one that every publisher would like to replicate more often. I […]
Hefty tomes lose their appeal
Like millions of others, I’m headed for the beach next week. My favorite part of the ritual, other than packing a suitcase full of shorts and flip flops, is finding the perfect books to accompany me on the flight and at the water’s edge. This year, my traveling companion is pushing hard for the work […]
Media, media, media
Our authors have been getting some great media coverage recently and we wanted to start sharing it on our blog. We (primarily I, Sara, aka the CHC digital maven) are going to be doing this a couple of times a month, but will post more frequently with big hits come in. Last Friday night Stall […]
Connecting with our community
I’ve been attending BEA, the annual book convention, for more years than I care to admit — I remember when it was the ABA, recall the year it rained through all the outdoor parties in Miami, and even recollect the year that Oprah announced her own book, a deal she famously pulled out of before […]
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