There’s only one thing we can be sure of about the future: it will be different than today. The best we can do is make educated guesses. Here are some of mine about what’s ahead for business book authors. The future of business books is ebooks More and more business readers are buying and reading more and more » Read More
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What’s a book to do?
I’ve been a guest on Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate show for more than a decade. I enjoy the banter, but a big reason I keep going back is that Jim is one of my friends who kickstarts my thinking. On a recent show, he did it with a question. What’s the future of the book when information is on » Read More
Future: Books aren’t just books anymore
For five hundred years, books have been pretty much the same. They’re made up of paper pages bound together. Those pages have numbers on them. There’s usually a table of contents. For business books, there’s often an index, too. But things are changing. I rarely buy a book like that anymore. Today, my » Read More
2/21/14: The Writing Edge for Business Writers
You’re a businessperson. You may not think of yourself as a writer, but you know that writing well can boost your results and your career. Naturally, you want to do better. Every week I point you to one or two pieces that I think will teach you something or spark an idea or two. This week I’m pointing you to » Read More
1/10/14: The Writing Edge for Business Writers
You’re a businessperson. You may not think of yourself as a writer, but you know that writing well can boost your results and your career. Naturally, you want to do better. Every week I point you to pieces that I think will teach you something or spark an idea or two. This week I’m pointing you to a piece on » Read More