Book Industry… Merchandising for Libraries Keynote 29 Oct 20167 Jan 2022 One of the best things about teaching and giving seminars is that it makes you think about subjects you might not otherwise have thought about. I was approached by Edmaker…
Book Industry Bookselling by the Numbers 18 Oct 20167 Jan 2022 Last week at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) fall tradeshow, I put on a seminar titled Bookselling by the Numbers, where I discussed some of the various…
Book Industry The end of an era … and start of a new one 2 May 20167 Jan 2022 UPDATE 2018: We are back in Red Lodge, but not with a bookstore. Phoenix Pearl Tea is our tea and game business on Broadway, right next door to where Red…
Book Industry… A peek inside the cashflow of writing books 7 Jul 20158 Jan 2022 I was poking around on Quora and came across an interesting juxtaposition of questions: Neither of these is an unusual question. Quora is filled with people asking how to make money…
Book Industry Farewell, Sir Terry. You shall be missed! 12 Mar 20158 Jan 2022 People live. People die. And we deal regularly with the deaths of public figures. Authors, performers, composers, artists, they are as mortal as the rest of us. But sometime one…