Darren Rowse is the man behind the popular ProBlogger website. His site is filled with helpful information for anyone who wants to succeed as a blogger.
What is little known is that Darren was formerly a clergyman. In this video, he combines two topics about which he is an expert–sermon-making and blog writing–and he explains, “How Preparing a Sermon is Similar to Writing Blog Posts.” Darren encapsulates several useful ideas that can help anyone craft better sermons and better blog articles.
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Everyone has heard the cliche–”You can’t tell a book by it’s cover.” But is it true? Publisher’s say that cover art converts browsers into buyers. In fact, many covers have become iconic. A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby sells for $10,000; if it has its artistic dustcover, it is worth $80,000.
The CBS show Sunday Morning takes a fascinating look at the power of book covers and ponders their future as e-books become more popular.
Where is publishing headed? Will books give way to movies and television and will libraries become nothing more than museums? Will the publishing and bookselling industries collapse? Is there any hope for the future? U.K. educational publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK) has created a video that shows us that there is indeed hope for those who respond properly to the marketplace.
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You saw the movie “Jerry Maguire,” starring Tom Cruise, so you understand how sports agents earn a living. They try to sign a young promising athlete, and then they try to sell that athlete’s skills to sports teams, trying to get one of them to pay top dollar for a soon-to-be star. Of course, the sports agent takes a healthy portion of the athlete’s income for services rendered, but that’s the way of the world.
Book agents, better known as literary agents, are in the same game. They’re looking for fresh talent that they can pitch to publishers. If they can place your book with a publisher, they will get a cut of your income for the economic life of the book. How much does a literary agent get? I remember when it used to be 10%, and when it climbed to 15%. These days, some agents want as much as 20% of your hard earned advances and royalties. [Read More]
What is a “Kindle?” It’s an e-book reader being heavily promoted by Amazon.com. Big companies like Microsoft and Adobe have taken shots at producing an e-book reader that people would love enough to give up books printed on paper, but they failed. Now, Amazon.com has released Kindle 2.
Most of us have a heavy reliance on the Adobe Acrobat Reader, though it is a general purpose reader, and does not lend itself to novels and non-fiction. It’s better for business-related documents, though many people use it to distribute books. [Read More]
