by Don Leeper | Dec 2, 2014 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion
Perhaps the biggest secret of great success in the digital age is to create a market ecosystem in which other participants provide great value at low prices—or better yet, for free—while you sell your stuff at high margins. This strategy is...
by Don Leeper | Oct 20, 2014 | Opinion
What is the true cost of publishing an eBook? Among all the disputation about eBook selling prices, one major misconception persists: that because the reproduction cost of eBooks is very low, then the cost to the publisher is low, and therefore the selling price of an...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 1, 2014 | Opinion
My favorite festival is fast approaching: the Twin Cities Book Festival (TCBF), on October 11 at the Progress Center on the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. It’s everything I love about my town and about books, and thanks to the hard work of its host Rain Taxi, the...
by Don Leeper | Sep 22, 2014 | Book Production, Opinion
At Bookmobile, we have been working with literary, university press, independent, and trade publishers for over thirty years. We have also helped hundreds of authors self-publish. So we’ve witnessed firsthand the making of thousands of books. Like the making of...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 26, 2014 | Opinion
To be upfront: this is a really specific scenario—I know that my husband Karl and I are not average readers/book buyers. That said, here’s my sordid tale about how I mistakenly purchased two print books made from badly formatted Word files from...
by Don Leeper | Aug 19, 2014 | Opinion
Amazon’s online partisans have lambasted big New York publishers for being “gatekeepers,” barring authors’ paths to the land of milk and honey. But if book publishers are doing any gatekeeping, they are doing a spectacularly bad job of it:...
