Let’s Improvise! Jazz as a Metaphor for Publishing Progress

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Let’s Improvise! Jazz as a Metaphor for Publishing Progress Jazz provides an apt analogy for the new agile workflows in publishing and the need for different departments to improvise in concert on a final outcome.  Read more »

What Are Your Least Favorite Analogies for the Book Business? The print book business is compared to the buggy whip business at the dawn of the automobile, but were buggy whips ever a $120 billion a year global industry?  Read more »

Argentine Survey Picks Top 50 People in Spanish-Language Publishing A Buenos Aires Book Fair survey names the 50 publishing professionals whose actions have had the strongest impact on their colleagues over the last years. Read more »

iDoLVine Offers Long-Distance Autographs for Books and More iDoLVine is the evolution of Margaret Atwood's Long Pen, which allows authors to sign books remotely, and is expanding the technology throughout the entertainment world.  Read more »

Is a Virtual Book Signing as Satisfying as Real Life? Can a virtual signing replace the experience of standing in line, waiting your turn, and exchanging 30 seconds of repartee with a real live author? Perhaps not. Read more »