We here at Booktrope have been very anxiously awaiting approval on a new release, and are thrilled to be able to share it with you at long last. Without further ado, our announcement. Global Program Redesigning Education Book scheduled for release in May 2013 provides insights from 9 countries For students to succeed in today’s [...]
Things have changed dramatically in the last couple of years in the publishing industry. This is what has opened a space allowing Booktrope to create our model. We are often asked which things we do that are more in keeping with the traditional space, and which we don’t. Because we are committed to remaining as [...]
2012 is nearly over, with only a few hours left in the year. It has been a big year for Booktrope in so many ways. Rather than putting up a list (because honestly, it would be tough to narrow it down to even a top twenty) I have decided to put up one highlight from [...]
Here follows another post inspired by a question I hear routinely. In particular, Ken Shear and I hear this question a lot at entrepreneurial type events and that is; “what is it that will make people work as a team instead of competing (or trying to determine who is in charge, or only caring about [...]
Self-publishing. Vanity press. Independent author. What do these terms mean, anyway? Well, for most people outside of the publishing industry, they are probably interchangeable, or more likely, completely unknown. How often do you as a consumer even look at the name of the publisher? Do you wander into Barnes and Noble and ask where the Knopf [...]
When do you start marketing your book? This is by far the most common question I hear. It has a very simple answer: RIGHT NOW! If you are far enough along in your project to even have the question in your mind, you should begin. Let’s start by dismissing the wrong answers to this question, shall [...]
Lately Ken and I have spent a lot of time giving overview presentations about Booktrope, as well as participating in Q&A session following the presentation. (Similar to what I did with NWEN’s Firstlook which I blogged about here, but in most cases I get 10 whole minutes instead of only 5!) In pondering what to blog [...]
I had a *moment* earlier today when I realized that we just put out our 52nd book. That means you could read a different Booktrope book every week for a year. A weird milestone, I suppose (most people celebrate the round numbers like 100) but for some reason it really resonated with me. Mostly, I [...]
I wrote a book! Well, co-authored it, technically, with the amazing Lori Culwell (no really, she is awesome, Google her if you don’t believe me!) But still, I got to go in and claim my “Author Central” login on Amazon, which was ridiculously exciting to me. You would think that being in the book business [...]
In case you missed this, a terrific interview with our publisher Ken Shear. If you want to know more about what we are doing and why, take a look at this interview. http://www.andreahurst.com/blog/authornomics-interview-series-with-ken-shear/ Big thanks to Andrea Hurst for the lovely feature!
In my last posting, I waxed rhapsodic about “books, those icons of our intellectual life and anchors of our civilization, those founts of inspiration and knowledge, those delightful diversions and fabulous fictions”, amongst my various ramblings and fulminations. Indeed, I do love books, and I want to go into a little of the why and [...]
When I got into the publishing business about a year and a half ago, it was for several “reasons” (using that word rather loosely): Here was a business in flux, with some established publishers so hidebound that they actually charge a higher price for ebooks than paperbacks, and think it’s important to put DRM [...]
