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New Year, New Job, New Blog
Two announcements to kick off 2010. First, check out the new blog. I’m launching The New Sleekness with other smart, bookish types to fill a hole in publishing punditry: voices from the...
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Three Jobs Publishing Houses Need to Fill in 2010
In this era of layoffs and pay freezes across the industry, it might seem silly to talk about new positions that publishing houses should be looking to fill. I can hear you all groaning from here: with...
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Doin’ It Digital
After reading Ami’s article about essential digital positions in Publishing, I thought about how most people in our digi-nerd positions, especially in publishing, come from another neck of the business...
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Publishers: You Need a Corporate Social Media Strategy
Wow. So that happened. I don’t have a lot to add to the Team Macmillan or Team Amazon sides, but I do think this is a good time for us all to touch base about a little thing called corporate...
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On Production.
I came of age, career-wise, in the late 90′s, as an art director at J. Walter Thompson, a multinational advertising agency. The 1990′s were an interesting time to be in an art department. The desktop...
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Macmillan Blogs…And The Heavy Lifting Begins
Wow, cool. Macmillan started a blog! (Incredibly well-designed, too. Wonder who did that…) First of all, I think I speak for a lot of people by saying, good on you, John Sargent. This is absolutely a...
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Continuing the Conversation…
Those of you who attended yesterday’s Publishing Point meetup, “In Conversation with John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan,” got to see a side of Sargent that wasn’t carefully scripted in a Publishers Lunch...
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What Ozzy Taught Me About Multi-Platform Publishing
I Am Ozzy is the autobiography of one of the craziest rock stars of all time, Ozzy Osbourne. While I was a fan of MTV’s The Osbournes back in the day, I wasn’t ever really a diehard fan of his music....
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B&N is for sale (or: If I were a rich man….)
So Barnes & Noble has put itself on the block. If I were a rich man, I’d buy B&N, get rid of all the mass market shelf space, replace it with an Espresso Book Machine, start strong-arming...
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Oh God. Dad’s Finished His Book.
Before you make that face, let me stress that I am 1,000% supportive of anything he wants to do. Just as I’m totally supportive of him getting a degree in Archeology at the spry age of 68. However,...
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