As always, blogging has been lighter than I would like. But, I can’t say that I’ve had much to say about publishing lately that has much to add to any ongoing industry conversations or concerns. I suppose I could chime in with things like, “The Kindle! What’s up with it?” Or maybe, “Printers! What’s up [...]

And then, every once in a while you come across something that stands way out from the normal ebb and flow of the day-to-day textbook publishing routine. That was certainly the case this morning when one of our new authors—Terry Cooper, the Texas RV Professor, who we recently signed a three-book deal with—directed me toward [...]

Once upon a time, I had this dream that all you had to do to sell a book was to publish a good book; you know, that kind of Field of Dreams “if you build it, they will come” idea. This approach is alternately known as “an excellent way to sell absolutely nothing at all [...]

Okay, so I have to admit it: at heart I’m something of a Luddite. I’m still using rabbit ears on the TV, had dial-up Internet at home for six years until going broadband a couple of months ago, and just finally got a cell phone last year only after losing the charger for my wife’s [...]

Blogging will be light the next couple of weeks as I’ll be out of the office until July 16th. (Not that blogging isn’t always relatively light as I seem to be forever battling to average just one post a week. The Joe Wikerts of the world who can be as high up the food chain [...]